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Thank you to everyone here for educating me on some water basics. It's nearly goodbye awesome CO water hello crappy AZ water. Packing up the espresso machine and roaster this weekend. Scottsdale water has a lot of chlorides. Since there is no convenient place in the new house...
I created a thread last year to decide on which filtration system to use and got great help from a team member: Help with water treatment options
I bought a standard 2-filter softening system.
Having 2 babies in-between, I didn't have time to install everything...
I recently moved into a new house with well water. Although the water treatment is extensive, it's not great for an espresso machine, which started me looking at other options.
I'm currently using Zero Water plus third wave water packs, which seems fine to me. But I'm noticed...
My new machine should be arriving soon. Im trying to figure out what to do about water. The new machine is a Synesso MVP Hydra single group. I had my water tested with the optipure test kit. Id like to plumb in directly.
I wonder if someone would care to double check my math for me. I wanted to make a single batch of concentrate (WLL makes separate concentrates for buffer and hardener), enough for 10 gallons of water. There recipe is:
Buffer: 1.4g of baking soda in 1L of distilled water...
Hi,
can i have some help with understanding my water. I bought a Bezzera Domus Galatea one year ago and used a bwt bestmax premuim on 2 bypass for that year.
The other day i pulled off little filter on the hot water spout and saw grains of what i think is scale. so i popped out...
As I mentioned in another post, I am currently brewing espresso with the following recipe: 1.5g of potassium bicarbonate + 2.8g of epsom salt, dissolved in 500ml of distilled water. Then, I use 25g of that solution to dissolve it in 975ml of distilled water. Right after making...
While my Cremina was away in the shop I was using my Cafelat robot as my daily driver. Usually I use the standard rpavlis water recipe with the Cremina. For the robot I just used water from my RO system. Now the Cremina is back and I'm using rpavlis water again I've noticed that...
I currently make my own water using distilled water with a recipe that I found online consisting of magnesium sulfate and potassium bicarbonate. The water results in a hardness of around 85ppm. I know that calcium causes scale in the machine, but flavorwise, is it better for...
Hi Folks, I recently got my espresso machine and decided to use Espresso Afficionado's TWW Espresso Inspired Water formula . I have been mixing 1.5g of Epsom salt and 0.5g of potassium bicarbonate into 1 gallon of distilled water per the instructions. I recently checked the TDS...
