Yeh I think I'm going to experiment with it as a self serve option for a video. What do you think? How much should I charge for it?

​@@Rydecoffeecoachsame price as a batch brew and maybe give the option for a bunch of different beans.

@@DaneButler yep. I think the filter offering might be similar to our batch brew in that we'll have a roast each week that will cycle though. That will make it easier to manage the freshness 🙌

Yes and no. It's definitely commercially viable, but you'll throttle the growth of your business by having a single group machine. So much better to buy the double group. More upfront cost but savings in the long run. 👌

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That's wonderful history you have there! You gotta put it into a book or something, even if it's just for the generations to come. 🙌☺️ I love hearing stories like this. 🙏❤️

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I think what you're seeing everywhere online is Temp Surfing. By flushing the water through the machine it helps fill the boiler with new fresh cold water causing the temperature drop and making the temperature for extracting closer to 94C instead of a blistering 120C+ (which is for your steam). It's just how these old machines were built. There's no risk if you don't do it other than you might get an overextracted shot tasting burnt and bitter. If you're happy with a bit of inconsistency in the taste, or if you're happy to tweak it and learn its personality, then the Rancilio is awesome! If you're handy with mechanics, the modding community is huge and there are PID kits you can buy and fit them yourself to help temp stability. If you don't care for that muck around and just want a really great coffee everytime, you'll need to extend your budget a bit and get something like a Profitec Go or Lelit Victoria which have them built in. Watch this vid for some ideas (and I have more at different budget ranges): kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnnFmKCZoLF_ZrMsi=9bH-xRhtpcty8A8h

Lame is your subjective opinion and whether you choose to drink it is your prerogative BUT let's not get confused about the huge nutritional value of coffee! It's one of the remaining superfoods/super drinks and on top of the warm morning hug you get from drinking it, you also greatly reduce the risk of a huge amount of diseases. ❤️

I thought I explained it in the video but maybe it was in another one. It's called E61 cos it was the first electromagnetic pump design launched in 1961 by Faema. The technology has advanced a lot since then but the shape of the group head remains iconic for every e61 machine.

Thank you! 🙏 I much prefer doing videos like this but YT algorithm doesn't love me for it 😓 I'm sorry to say I have gone the way of gear reviews too while trying to sprinkle in a few of these vids along the way. That's because I want to grow the channel as big as I can and people are more interested in gear than real lives and real stories. But when I have the 2m+ subs that Hoffman has, believe you me I will be doing documentaries on these farms and cultures and unique coffee stories. You can hold me to that! 🤞

That's old, not sure why it served you up that video but watch this (about halfway through you need to click on the link up top to watch the second half as YT glitched it and never fixed it.) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3mmpat8i8R1o7ssi=YMfpP5pBIlIHIOYo

@@Rydecoffeecoach Are you serious ? the rest half of the video you sent me is frozen, are you kidding me? 🤦‍♂️

@@mrmertah5412 ok wow. No need to be so rude to me. Like I said in the previous response to you, YT glitched the video after it was published and working and they couldn't solve it. So I uploaded just the second half of Part 1 and linked to it in the video. If you bothered to step back and see that I'm trying to do the best I can do for everyone and work around YT you might not be so aggressive. But I guess some people like yourself are just never satisfied with being given free information. 🙄

Ummm... Actually it is. but hey, thanks for stopping by. 😅

Well, in that particular comparison, the Silvia pro X definitely over the Rancilio Epoca. The technology on the Silvia is far superior. Silvia is basically a commercial machine anyway as most of the internals are commercial grade. Domestic/appliance dual boiler I would say is a Breville.

Barista, Roaster, cafe owner over 25 years in the industry. I think I have done enough to know about coffee. ☺️

True! But I'm pretty sure this machine has a version of a 3 way solenoid, it isn't called that but you can still backflush it. Definitely correct about most appliance machines 🙏🙌

Yeh I could do one in the future and if Cafelat could send me one I'd give it away to a viewer too. 👌 Are you up for that @cafelat ?

I strongly believe you should avoid a grinder combo machine as one of them will always fail first (usually the machine) and then what do you do? Have two machines on the bench and use one just as a grinder? It's so much easier to find a cheap grinder that will last you 10+ years than a cheap coffee machine. So picking up a second hand grinder is much less risky than any machine. But even new, grinders like Breville/Sage smart grinder pro or dose control pro are cheap and excellent starting points. Then just buy the Sage Bambino if you don't have a big budget. But if you can stretch to something like a Profitec Go and a Eureka Mignon Silenzio you'll be set up with the best from the start and won't need to worry about replacing until you're ready to upgrade.

I picked up a bes860 when looking for a grinder 10 years ago. people who dont discover better grinders, love the coffee when used with FRESH BEANS. second hand 64mm grinders are cheap

Yep that's the way to go. Any given day on FB marketplace you'll be able to find a used grinder for around $50

No it isn't. It's to distribute grinds but doesn't go deep enough. A tamper already levels the surface as you compress it.

Thank you for your feedback. I used to think the music helped cover all the background ambient noise of the fridges and what not in my cafe I filmed in. Now I realise that most people find it distracting. I should probably just re-upload it without the background music. Thanks for your kind criticism. 🙏