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Hi, I just got a new Delonghi 685. My espresso always tastes sour, salty and fermented.

I read that the espresso pull should take 20-30 seconds for a 30ml shot. I have grinded with my WPM ZD15 grinder using the smallest setting available...

Do you leave the portafilter in the group when not in use?

Someone told me that having the pf repeatedly cool and heat can cause them to warp.

This is a commercial machine that is "on" 18 hrs/day.

I'd been leaving the pfs on...

I usually go through 2 lbs of beans in 3 weeks. I currently place beans in my freezer in ziplock bags.

I am thinking about buying a food sealer so when I get my beans in from roasters, I can seal them in small packages and use them over...

I try to dose my naked portafilter which i purchased a month back with 12gm of coffee and try to dose and tamp it properly. But most of the times i get a slightly burnt taste and also when i try to remove the puck from the filter, a part...

Just interested in what others are doing:

For your most typical shots, what's your grounds dose, liquid weight, and shot duration? And are you doing anything interesting with pressure, grind, etc?

Like my typical shot seems to have...

After reading so much of ya'lls advice on HB, watching tons of youtube videos, burning through probably 3 gallons of milk, then lot's soapy water, then more milk... I finally did it. Kind of. Still lots of road left to travel, but I wanted...

I purchased one of the first breville 900 XL machines in late 2010. The machine has been replaced many times under warranty. I now have a 920 XL. For many years I used the Barratza Vario grinder. As many have described the importance of...

On my Silvia it's next to impossible to create micrfoam on 4 oz of milk and have it consistent. About 1/4 is foam and the rest is heavy milk.

When I go to the coffee shops, it's just as bad...obviously because of skill and not the...

Over this past few weeks, I've noticed my machine taking longer between starting the extraction and seeing the espresso come out of the portafilter. It used to take about 5 seconds, but now it's taking up to 13 seconds. Once the espresso...

Recently watching a video comparing two Silvia's, one with a mecoffee mod and one without but both displaying their temperature on the graph. Being a temp surfer myself, makes me want to pull my shots while the temp is on the rise, rather...