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Grazie ☕️ I appreciate the tip about using the coffee filter to eliminate sediment. Because you DYIed the cork with toothpicks, I wanted to share with you how my late father, who was a Sommelier & then sold fine Italian wine in the N End of Boston eliminated sediment in wine. He would use a coffee filter. 110% all the time, unless the wine went bad.
Hello and great video. I have the barista touch and wanted to get a bottomless pf. I got the normcore 54mm and it seems way bigger and my puck is always soaked where as before it was completely dry and hard. I tried to add more coffee 19 and sometimes. 20 instead of 18. I was going to return this porta. What do you think?
Try 20.5g or 21g and 1 setting finer than what you would usually do with the regular portafilter for that specific coffee and then try adding half a gram but i doubt it should require more than 22. For me its usually 20.5g
This just looks overly complicated. So many buttons you have to press simultaneously and there isn't a simple descale button. Cleaning my Miele is so much simpler
It’s just three buttons at once and that’s it u are ready to go, the more annoying part is that you almost always have to do it a couple of times until the capsule dissolves
so you measure out 18g then scrape away about 3g after tamping. Add this to the rest of the bad praticese in the video make it the worse coffee guide I have ever seen on RU-vid.
The scraping is for people that dont have scale and can’t know how much coffee they have in the basket, I forgot to mention that. So yes you are right you shouldn’t scrape if you have weight out 18g
Caffè Motta has been excellent for me for the last year. Very similar taste as Illy (if not smoother) for 1/3 of the price. I am buying it from my local Italian grocery store.
Ok so it's most likely the freshness of your coffee, buy a brand new bag/can or get a bag from your local roastery and don't keep it/use it for longer than 30 days. So get a 250g or 500g depending on how much coffee you drink and how many people are using the machine so that you always run out at day 30. Then make sure you use 18g so use a scale if you have to to measure your volume, and finally when you tamp it make sure you don't tamp it super hard or very light when you hit the buttom - stop.
@millennium677 ok is it pre-ground or whole beans? What brand is it? Maybe it's just a bad coffee, if you get this Illy Classico amzn.to/4fWBpqU for example I can tell you right away you will need to grind it with setting 7 or 8, pour 18g in the double shot single wall basket you should be good, if that doesn't work maybe you just got a faulty machine
For this video I chose not to use the bottomless portafilter because I wanted this video to appeal to the broader audience most people don't own and probably will never buy a bottomless portafilter, I do have a separate video for it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2wMLC2wKNjI.htmlsi=6qxABbgfiEcOru5Y . Precision baskets? Depends on your goals and equipment setup, and how big of an espresso geek you are :) I'd say there's like 5-10% improvement in taste and more even extraction
I agree you will always notice a few spays here and there but as long is it's not a mess and the flow is one smooth stream and extraction time is around 25seconds you are doing it right
Thanks for the great video, I just got this machine and still learning the settings - and still can't program my one shot quite right - Question, WHERE ARE THESE CUTE BLACK SHOT GLASSES FROM? LOL I can't fine them :)
You are welcome try this video if it helps ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BnIzjrVnlgc.html although I think I only cover the double shot, the single shot is the same just twice less coffee (9grams) and one setting courser. Btw the coffee cups are from a local supermarket in Greece called Jumbo I tried to find them on Amazon but they don't have them lol
@@espressodoctor Thank you so much for replying! I will watch the vid and the "grams" will help me out. So sweet of you to check for the cups, they are the cutest! :)
That's as good as it gets with a 2dollar milk frother, u can try to froth it longer or shorter to get a better microfoam but it's never going to be as good as with a steamer
Sorry for this basic question ( I am completely new to this and want to buy an espresso machine) is this the Breville Express or Express Impress? I am in Europe and the Impress has a higher price tag and I wandering which one should I pick?
This is the Breville/Sage Barista Express I think the extra price for the Impress is not worth it for the extra few features, the Barista Express is just enough for a home espresso machine.
It could be that it's clogged from the calcium of the milk, try this ru-vid.compMweEaVhQ_M unscrew the tip and clean it, put a needle through the tip to unclog it, let me know if it helps
That's a surprise, try warming it up longer, so leave it on after you turn it on for 7-10 min and then before you pull a shot, run a couple of empty shots, like press the double shot button a couple of times. If that doesn't help you can adjust the temperature like this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QEmMgeKzf7E.htmlsi=2t5cZ9CYuv4VL4y7&t=39
@@espressodoctor thanks for your help: I'm an architecht and I have not issues with instructions or calls to assistence... Sage sended to me 3 machines, same results: cold coffee... i lose a lot of money... now I can guess why sage's video cannot accet comments!
@@claudiop.panarella So you are telling me that the best selling espresso machine in the world brews cold coffee. Yeah no, sounds like a user problem. Never met so useless people in army than highly educated people like architechts. Cant do anything with hands
It's pretty much the same puck prep just instead of the single wall basket your are going to swap out and use your dual wall basket (they are marked on the back) and pick the single or double shot dual-wall basket which ever one you prefer, first add pre-ground espresso, second tamp it, third use the razor to shave off any extra espresso, finally insert the portafilter into the group head and press Single or Double shot button depending which basket you chose
why are you reviewing an aeropress as an espresso maker? this makes no sense. you wouldn't review three cars and give one of them third place because it's a bicycle. also - the aeropress manual says you should not go over 80deg Celsius because it's plastic?? sorry, but this is all a bit strange.
@@LungenStrudel im reviewing the aeropress as a portable coffee maker, it just sounded better for the title if I review at least 3 products 😂 the instructions said use 80 degrees celsius hot water and I assume its because of that. I mean it’s pretty logical don’t u think? Why else wouldn’t they say 90 degrees, that is the best temperature for coffee extraction.
@@espressodoctor depends on the type of coffee. for light roasted beans that are much more dense than dark roasts, you typically would go over 95, even boiling temp. I highly recommend James Hoffman's series of Aeropress videos.
is this the way to make it for a special community? Filter the water, paper filter ???? do not press the coffee ??? Hot water burning the coffee ?? 😂 Wtf...
