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Feelin' a bit rrranty
Not “still” exactly... I had to buy the plastic especially for it.Your sofa is still covered in plastic isn't it
Not “still” exactly... I had to buy the plastic especially for it.Your sofa is still covered in plastic isn't it
Maybe he wants to play blind mans buff with the under sized drip tray Silvias are afflicted with?Love that you've left the packaging on the drip tray.
Don't want that brushed stainless getting coffee on it
@downunderdallas what's the place you got your kit from?Converted my $50 grinder to doserless which cost $150 ...still it's the best $200 grinder I've seen! Incidentally I ordered kit from Taiwan on Thursday night it was delivered in Perth on Sunday morning..if only bike bits came this fast ...
Coffee is the best I have made personally for a long time. The Compak is definitely being relocated! Yes that is a spare basket in the hopper spot, the guy I bought the doser-less kit from has this awesome turned stainless funnel but it was $100 USD too spendy for me.
Yep that's the one
Shall do so in the Arvo, it is drinkable but to be honest still not as good as the 300 dollar sunbeam.Let's see some pics of those shots @safreek !!!
Ok, I have pulled my first few shots on this and am very happy indeed! Both the Mrs and I think the coffee is at least as good if not better than the VBM. It's a bit of a fiddly process as expected but actually not as bad as I thought it may be. I think it may well be my go-to on the weekends.Has anyone used a Flair Espresso manual press thingo? Thinking about getting one for weekends away when I have time to piss fart around with coffee, was going to pair with a hand grinder, any suggestions on that front?
I know the coffee scene over here is a bit backwards, but...surely you can still get coffee on the weekends?Ok, I have pulled my first few shots on this and am very happy indeed! Both the Mrs and I think the coffee is at least as good if not better than the VBM. It's a bit of a fiddly process as expected but actually not as bad as I thought it may be. I think it may well be my go-to on the weekends.
Photo of a short black, 5 minutes old out of the sunbeam. Better by far than the rancilio. It's going back to the supplier as soon as the border opens. They are at Darra, says it allI know the coffee scene over here is a bit backwards, but...surely you can still get coffee on the weekends?
Where is the coffee pix @safreek ?
ha ha yes VBM is easier -less fuss for weekdays before work, the flair I'll use when I have more time to tinkerI know the coffee scene over here is a bit backwards, but...surely you can still get coffee on the weekends?
Where is the coffee pix @safreek ?
Given that literally millions of people have been happy with the Silvia over the last 30 years I suspect that they may be some user error.Photo of a short black, 5 minutes old out of the sunbeam. Better by far than the rancilio. It's going back to the supplier as soon as the border opens. They are at Darra, says it allView attachment 367567
Agreed.Given that literally millions of people have been happy with the Silvia over the last 30 years I suspect that they may be some user error.
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Already have tried 3 different beans, on a grind that I have tried from a 15 grind which is obviously to large through to a 7 which barely comes through. I get that it's easy to fuck up a flat white but all I want is good short blacjAgreed.
@safreek there’s gotta be something in your combination of coffee bean, bean storage, grinding and tamping that’s not working well with the Silvia obviously.
Why not spend the time and money that you’d burn driving it back to Darra in different beans and trying various tamping and grind combos. It’s not like its a shit machine.
Do you have proper tamper?
Ok @safreek it's time to answer some questions...
1) do you have the right size tamp? Or are you trying to wing it with something a little bit too small? Is it a flat or convex faced tamp? Is it a good ramp or some cheap piece of shit that isn't really going to deliver an even tamp? An uneven tamp will yield a very shitty extraction. I used to like a convex tamp, for a long time...then one day I was given a flat faced tamp and holy shit! Good by convex days.
2) what is your dose size? Are you loading up the correct amount for your basket? Under and over filling will fuck you up.
3) brew ratio...once you know how many grams of ground coffee you are putting in, you need to work out how many grams you are pulling out. The bigger the ratio, the shitter the coffee. Well more the smaller margin for error, but also the shitter the coffee. A quick bit of googling tells me you should have a 16g basket? From that you should be yielding about 25-30g of coffee. That isn't a bad ratio and should yield good coffee.
4) what is your extraction rate like? Commercially I like to pull about 30g of coffee from 18-20g of beans in roughly 30 seconds on a machine with around 8 or 9 bar of pump pressure. A lot of home machines, like your Sunbeam and my Breville, run about 14-16 bar of pressure in the pump. I can't find an official listing for the pressure on your machine, but the internet claims 11 bar. This is a lot less than your Sunbeam! I would suggest that you may need to look at slowing the extraction rate down, maybe around 20-25 seconds for your 30g shot. Perhaps even slower, it never hurts to play with it...you won't go blind.
5) you better be using quality fresh coffee beans.
That's what they told the giant anthem owners.suspect that they may be some user error.
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