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Call me thick but I'm sure I've seen loads of "what coffee machine" posts on here but can't seem to find them using the search function! Anyone got a link to them from their history!?
Cheers!
search function is poor but try using advanced search and putting in gaggia or something
(there's a way to use google but I can't remember how 😳 )
Cheers had a go and it brought this post up, haha!
the standard search only looks at the last month - try searching further back in time.
Oh and the answer is:
[url= http://www.gaggia.com/macchine-da-caffe.asp?macchine-per-espresso-automatiche_16_Titanium ]Gaggia Titanium[/url]
🙂
For any such confusion / half memory - try doing this:
Go to google and type "singletrackworld coffee machine". Way better than the search here.
Oh - and the answer is named Silvia 😉
Cheers all, google search seems to be for the win! Now to decide which machine.......
If you finish your Google search terms with site:singletrackworld.com, it will only return results from singletrack (or whatever url fragment you put after the 'site:'). So, something like
coffee machine site:singletrackworld.com
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/search.php?search=coffee&advanced=1&exact=1&posts=1&highlight=1&users=0&located=3&forums%5B%5D=2&maxcount=100&age=999999&direction=0&sort=date&order=0 ]Coffee threads[/url]
Oh and the answer is:Gaggia Titanium
You've spelled it wrong, I assume you were trying to type 'La Pavoni Europiccola' 🙂
Oh - and the answer is named Silvia
Indeed. Once you notice you have the same coffee machine as Vicky P, there is no need to ponder it further.
Martin, your anorak sir?
you don't want VP's machine, you want Sir Chris Hoy's travelling set-up
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Call me thick but I'm sure I've seen loads of "what coffee machine" posts on here but can't seem to find them using the search function! Anyone got a link to them from their history!?Cheers!
Spent over a grand on Gaggias over the past 15 years not including servicing (150.00 a pop every 3 years or so) go figure.
Beans to cup is good fun but EXPENSIVE
The answer you will find is AeroPress and at 24.00 it's a non brainer. Will make the best EVER cup of coffee you will taste. However, in order to appreciate the this, you'll have to buy every other coffee maker out there before you realise the above statement is correct
Come back to this post in 2 years and read the following out loud;
...I told you so.
Enjoy
Do not believe a word from the false profits above. The answer is a Kitchen aid grinder (yes I know the cost but trust your Unkle Homer, plus it looks like a 50s ray gun 😀 ), and any 150ish pound espresso machine with decent reviews. the grind is by far the most important thing. For reassurance get it from John Lewis/Amazon
Espresso machines seems to have a highish first few months fail rate so good warranty returns process is worth factoring in imo.
The answer is a Kitchen aid grinder
I have KA grinder (and machine) and have always struggled with it to get fine enough grind that in a say a 20s pull it would deliver too much coffee, too thin etc.
Have you taken the front off and fiddled? I have to be careful not to get it too fine or it won't go at all...
Yeah I probably need to - will take it apart when I get the chance - I'm guessing I can reset the front dial so it goes finer.
FYI I've had my KA espresso machine for over 5 years - but its a bit like triggers broom - every year without fail it breaks and is returned to be replaced with a new one! Great customer service but beginning to wonder about the product!
I have a Dualit, not perfect, steam pressure is a bit crap, but nice coffee.
If you like drinking coffee more than you like making it then this is the answer
The answer you will find is AeroPress
Only downside I have found is that I may be drinking too much good coffee since I bought one. Probably helps that I'm more an americano drinker than latte.
Coffee geeks, what should the waste coffee in the basket look like please?
Dry and firm or wet with a layer of water on top?
ideally firm, but I often get water on top. The grounds should compacted from the pressure though.
You've spelled it wrong, I assume you were trying to type 'La Pavoni Europiccola'
Strange, every time I write "Gaggia Titanium" the spell checker changes it to "Gaggia Titanium".
🙂
( it seems, btw, that coffee makers threads are the new helmet threads ).
Martin, your anorak sir?
Didn't need exhaustive research - it was in the background during a boring bit in the BBC Doco when she was fretting about something or other in her kitchen.
I'd know my beautiful Silvia anywhere...
Damp and firm. You should be able to knock one out with a single tap*
*In answer to Wrecker
That's an impressive setup that Sir Hoy has there.
Good to see he's using Hasbean.
Damp and firm. You should be able to knock one out with a single tap*
If I have a waterlogged puck, what could I be doing wrong?
Sorry, bit of a novice. Bought a delonghi (don't hate me).
Could be any one of a number of things - the type and amount of coffee you're using, the coarseness of the grind, how hard you tamp it down etc etc. Try changing one or more of these to see if it makes a difference.
It's a bit of a mysterious art, and it's possible to get good results one day and less good results the next without realising which subtle thing you've changed.
Sorry for the resurrection. Been doing a little research and I reckon that I'm not tamping the coffee hard enough. The coffee is quite weak thin so I'm thinking new tamper. Now, you'd think that a tool to push coffee into a filter holder would be a simple affair.......
So; flat, curved, euro curved, US curved, 58mm, 59mm. This coffee stuff is as bad as bikes!
Advice appreciated.
Advice appreciated.
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Thanks tom but I'll persevere (or give up coffee).
What grinder are you using? If you don't have a decent grinder then a new tamper is not going to solve anything.
Buying ground coffee MrSmith.
wrecker, what beans are you using ?. How old are they ?. How are you storing them ?.
Buying ground coffee MrSmith.
Ground coffee from a supermarket or ground coffee from a roaster where they ask you what machine you have and grind it accordingly?
The former is a non starter as the coffee is usually mediocre quality, stale by the time you get it and too coarse. The latter is better but even then the grind can be outside the ideal range for your machine.
Better quality ground coffee or a proper grinder will solve your problem not a new tamper.
Yeah, it's packet stuff at the moment as I haven't had the chance to pick up any really decent stuff but I bought some "lava java" (amongst others), supposedly a 6 on the taste scale and it's just thin and weak, I want a thick syrupy tasty espresso. I don't think that it's just the coffee, it can't be that bad.
I'm hesitant to go out and spend £100+ on a grinder without just trying a tamper first.
After much discussion between myself and my better half and my very own 'what coffee machine' thread on here, we took the plunge - and for us the answer was Gaggia Brera - had it 6 or 8 months now and have loved every cup.
Sorry thought you had a tamper already but just the plastic one that came with a machine, you should be able to get enough pressure with that, if you don't have that then just find something round that fits the portafilter and try a tamp with that, I still wouldn't expect great results with supermarket coffee.
Ah Sir Chris, a man with good taste and a rocket e61. I have one too which is the only resemblance.
Call me an auld giffer but my stove top espresso fills me with joy as the natural light from the kitchen window bounces of the many flat sides into a kaliedascope of geometric dancing reflections as I tighten it up; and the splutter and gurgle just set the taste buds up for the best 11:00 treat a man realsitically expect when the missus is at work...
Oh and for good beans try here www.betterbeverage.co.uk
Stove tops do not make espresso as they lack the required pressure, they can make nice coffee though
They lack pressure? Surely that's dictated by the grind and tamp as a normal espresso machine?
You can make coffee far stronger than espresso in one if you do it carefully!
My recommendation for machines is Cuisinart. Better coffee than my Gaggia and also better functionality.
They can't produce the 8-10 bar needed to make proper espresso. The extraction is very different in a stovetop That only has 1.5 bar pressure
Is that the blow-off valve pressure?
Stove tops get a bit hot. The water has to boil. I use one for camping. its good but not as good
As all electric pump machines are expensive and seem to have a finite life so how about this?
http://www.lecafeshop.co.uk/coffee-makers/products/the-presso
makes amazing coffee, relativels cheap and would seem to be durable...
wrecker - add a bit more coffee - sounds to me like you have a big gap between puck and the mesh bit where water is pushed in