Keeping your beans fresh, ordering in small quantities, not pre-grinding, and always storing your beans in an air tight container will have more effect over your coffee outcome than changes in your brewer. You dont know how many places I've worked where the waitstaff fills the espresso hopper to the top once a week, and wonder why they cant get a "crema" on top of the shot, or better yet, pre-grind drip beans into coffee filters stacked 20 high in a cambro -then dont rotate. Then you have a busy day and you finally get down to the bottom, -Gee, I wonder why the coffee sucks? Not the brewer.
Fresh beans first, then address the brewer.
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