Looks identical to the one I've been using for a year or so, works well, use it for a million things other than coffee as well.
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Coffee - do you and how do you consume it?
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It looks like the screw that holds the screen on the group head may protrude so that may be what you are seeing. On my Pasquini Livia 90 the screw is flush so that doesn’t happen but when I used a Rancilio Silvia the screw protrudes so I always see an impression from that.
Finding a "kitchen" scale with .1g sensitivity was challenging. My old kitchen scale still is very solid. It's really only for us serious crackheads that we need to micromanage our dosage.
Acaia scales are now $150 for the Pearl.
I liked using that in the coffee shop, but no way am I dropping my friends Ben and Ulysses off for a scale... especially if it doesn't come with a "calibration 8-ball!" *crying laughingThe model (Lunar) that actually fits on the deck of an espresso machine is running $250 now.
That's not a screw... its a bolt on the Silvia! Agree... its not a big deal if the puck expands into the screen, but you don't want it touching before you start extraction.
I wanted to find a replacement screw for my Silvia just because I didn't like that little bit of lacking-refinement in design. (Ha! Ya, I went there.) Alas, it wasn't as easy as I hoped and I gave up pretty quickly in that search.
I’ve been making espresso at home for 20+ years with a Pasquini Livia 90 and Anfim Best grinder. I buy green beans and I’ve been roasting my beans for the past 10 or so years with a Behmor roaster. I’ve repaired the Livia myself replacing pressurestats, vacuum release valves, and CPUs several times so it is a bit of a pain in that regard but it still makes excellent espresso.
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That's dedication to the bean!!!
Yeah, that design with the bolt always bothered me and I thought about hunting for a replacement too
I ate a small bag of bulk chocolate covered coffee beans and I was flying very very high for hours. I was a train wreck! Anybody else eating them? I find the kick is more powerful than drinking coffee.
Define, please, "ate a small bag."
I had a friend once tell me how they ate a "small" bag of mushrooms and how "high" they were flying for hours.
I asked them the same thing.
Lol... well in full disclosure I slurped down a Starbucks Vente Dar Roast and then went to Safeway (grocery store) and bought about 2 large handfuls of chocolate covered bean and gobbled those down in short order. I was cooking for sure. Could barely talk and walk normally. As per mushrooms I snack on 7 grams at a time in hot tea or with a sweet snack and it's no big deal.Define, please, "ate a small bag."
I had a friend once tell me how they ate a "small" bag of mushrooms and how "high" they were flying for hours.
I asked them the same thing.
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I've done blotter and microdot acid when younger and as mentioned some quantity of shroomers too and I can easily say that I was worse as a wreck on all that caffeine. I was not suitable in any professional capacity and could not think properly. My speech was disjointed and rambling.
Agree... a hard caffeine buzz is debilitating. Somewhere between the jitters and shakes, the nausea, the heart palpitations, trouble breathing, and diarrhea...
...it just stops being fun.
I'd rather just knock back 3 or 4 Irish Coffees and call it good.
I bar waited at a ~275 seat Italian restaurant/lounge when I was 12 years old and I experimented with alcohol at that time at work. I would make super modified Irish coffees with orange liquor and whiskey with whipped cream on top with sprinkles too. Delicious for sure. Of course I made a quadruple martini in a milkshake sized foam cup for the walk home. What a job that was! ...lol. Good tips too.I'd rather just knock back 3 or 4 Irish Coffees and call it good.
As a extra bonus we where allowed anything on the food menu once per day. I gobbled down the cannelloni voraciously.
Wasn't that a YT Challenge?
That's without water
with bit of water it is just bitter powder medicine with brown color
You talkin' Cowboy style? Pour Over through a Cone and Filter? Manual can mean so many different things.
Hipocrates
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Like my abuela!
I love my 1zpresso K-Max. Great grinder.
I've had that exact scale for months, it's a decent scale. I also recently bought a new scale - a Timemore Black Mirror Nano. It fits nicely on the drip tray of my espresso machine, which is a big plus to me.
Waxx
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I'm near the shop of Hoorens Koffie in Sint Maria Oudenhove (Zottegem) in Belgium. It's the most reputed coffeeroaster in the country and the place where all the fancy high class restaurants in Belgium and region get their stuff. It's the company of the wife of the former infamous artist Panamarenko (R.I.P.) and he did a lot of the styling of the brand. So i go there...
Their Exellent brand did not steal it's name, it's my everyday coffee and when buying direct from the company, not that expensive. I use a perculator that does one cup at the time, don't know the brand anymore. I always start from full beans and use an own mill (brand i also don't know by heart).
Their Exellent brand did not steal it's name, it's my everyday coffee and when buying direct from the company, not that expensive. I use a perculator that does one cup at the time, don't know the brand anymore. I always start from full beans and use an own mill (brand i also don't know by heart).