Care to distribute one of those Slayers to my house in Austin, TX?
I can obtain my equipment at cost...I'm sure I could make a lot of new friends...
Care to distribute one of those Slayers to my house in Austin, TX?
For years I've always enjoyed preparing quality coffee from quality beans.
My first and current maker is a Semi-Auto DeLonghi EC220. I get a good grind from a Burr that Costco has just sold out of on-line.... Capresso Infinity 565.04. For under $90 it turned out to be of tremendous quality and super quiet. The little DeLonghi provides a perfect pull with a beautiful head of crema. The cheap frother with plastic tip does a credible job of preparing milk (without a pack of large different sized bubbles on the top). I should be happy with my setup but I bought a cheap machine to see what I could learn while I researched the upgrade that I would want to live with for a few years. Every time I pull a shot I want to look in the mirror and ask myself why I want to spend the additional money. The decision was firm in the first place and now after lots and lots of reading I have narrowed the choice down to the Gaggia Classic or the Rancillio Silvia V3. Not sure I want to invest the extra $300 so it may boil or steam down to the Gaggia. I'm not worried about Frothing and Tamping techniques and I am pretty confident the grinder will meet the proper particle size to give a perfectly timed shot. Already have ordered a Motto Professional 58mm Tamper which will be the right size regardless of my final pick. For years I've always enjoyed preparing quality coffee from quality beans so this will be a lot of fun.
This arrived on Wednesday:
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It's a Pre-Millenium La Pavoni Europiccolo. I've pulled at least 20 shots out of it since then (about 16 of which went right down the sink) trying to learn the machine and realize that this is going to take a long, long time. That's ok. It's all about the journey.
I love the completely manual nature of the machine. It's like the straight razor of the espresso world.
My first espresso machine was this one. I got a great lesson in how to pull a shot, and got so I could do it expertly. But the machine kept breaking down in every possible way.
I have a Profi machine a got at Starbucks with a built in grinder. It just keeps chugging along. I have never replaced so much as a gasket on it. It does well.
Nice set-up, I like that you have a manual grinder too. Which one is it, the finish matches your Gaggia beautifully.Gaggia Factory (basically a rebadged La Pavoni). Great little machine..
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So I now use a LaMarzocco GS3
I had some electrical work that needed to be done, but otherwise it's been a workhorse (keeping in mind that I bought it used).It pulls a minimum of 4 shots every day and a max of about 2x that number.
nice, I looked that up quickly, looks cool. Hope it works well.Well, here we go... I picked up a used Via Venezia locally this afternoon.
I didn't even notice those at first, was in awe of the espresso machine but that is really cool.Thanks, I enjoy building those clocks in my spare time. It doubles as my shot timer.