These are horrible!!!! They cake up in the chute constantly! They also jam because the motor is weak. No one has time to clean these in a coffee shop. Their customer service is also horrible

How is it with drip?

I think it would be really cool at the start of New Year that a few of you folks that are constantly testing and trying new techniques and equipment do a segment: "this is how I am making espresso today". Does everybody at Clive do the same? Does it vary with what equipment you own? Simply, for each of the participants, 'this is my current understanding and how I ENJOY making my coffee'

Great video, helped a lot !

Great vid. Where’d you get those shot glasses!?

Shaking > wdt

Hi, whats the grinder you have in the video?

Finally a video that says it all. I hav seen hundreds of videos and still couldnt sort out my issues. Watched this once and I got amazing workable foam from very mediocre commercial wand! Thank you!

Thanks for mentioning that as coffee ages you need to go finer. I sometimes get 2 bags of coffee and have to test how to make them taste similar.

Which Profitec model is that? Looks sick!

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Puck prep is essential, since I only use bottomless portafilters in my Profitec Pro 800 lever espresso machine. Puck prep includes my ECM Titan 64 grinder, an ECM tamper station, an ECM pressure regulating tamper, Bravo espresso distributor/leveler, and most important, an ECM portafilter dosing funnel to prevent all the ground coffee mess all over my countertop. No more channeling and mess, simply perfect shots each time. Great video, thanks for sharing this important information!

When you have time for a deeper dive, more info on each of the extra tools and how they effect quality in the cup would be helpful. For instance, I'm using the Lucca A53 and currently use a flat tamper. The center bolt that holds the dispersion screen assembly together will alway be the first thing to contact the puck (by+/-2mm)and potentially give way to channeling. would a puck screen help more or less than a convex tamper? Or should I try to find a lower profile round head screw to replace the center bolt? Which of these prep tools do you feel give the greatest benefit for the money? Thanks for another great vid, cheers!

Some of my personal thoughts on puck prep: 1. In specialty coffee we start moving towards prices that finally start to pay off for farmers. When we give our shots their best chance at succeeding, this also means we value the hard work the farmers put in, as well as our own $$. A coffee plant takes years to carry fruit, so you can invest those 10 damn seconds in the morning 2. If all you're improving with puck prep is consistency, that is still a great reason to puck prep 3. You can easily determine necessary or unnecessary steps by comparing shots as shown here, no need to do all of them at every roast level

Maximal cringe when i see people use 20 tools to pull a shot for a freaking latte

When you say you didn't test WDT and baskets for the sake of fairness, would you please elaborate on that?

What machines were used here?

do you have to do the purge and all that 5 seconds 20 seconds multiple times every time?

Clear & Informative. Love this content.

I really love my Mignon zero. I can switch from espresso grind to drip coffee on the fly

ima need a flux capacitor for my puck prep

Unfortunately, this is not available in Europe. Looks like a fantastic machine.

Great video. Using both grinders was perfect.

and that is review? 😂

Excellent tips. Thanks

Soo, you said if its under 25 seconds you need to grind finer. I dont agree with that..

Well done. Thank you.

Ive had the machine for two months, and its totally worth the investment (coming from a sage bambino). However... I hate the fact that it doesn't come with a basic pitcher

Feel like the budget espresso machine should have been a bambino or a Dedica. Good video regardless.

Thanks a bunch! My basket always ended up with a pool of water and I had no idea why. Turns out I was underfilling by about 3-4 grams (had to get out my jewelry scale), and I wasn't tamping hard enough. Now I have a perfect puck.

I just purchased the new Profitec pro 600 from @clivecoffee and I’m considering the Eureka Atom W65. Would that be a good pairing?

Really great job, thank you

I clicked before I realized this is about espresso.

What scale with timer is that??

Who’s this Aiden fellow and how’s he so precise?

Is it possible to set a brew by time attribute if I want it to automatically stop at 30 seconds?

The dimensions are with the water tank included? Can you please tell me the dimensions without water tank. Thanks!

Love the w75. Was a messy first time. But gold after 2nd grind

"When the profit margins are higher on grinders." Just joking 😂

Nicely done. Now it would be super interesting to see recommendations for various price points for which the point of diminishing return has been reached in order to not go overboard. Of course that would imply not having customers waste part of their budget in things they don't need and would show somewhat of a rarely seen integrity from a store.

3:04This goes against what Lance Hendrick found out with his research on smaller sized baskets.

What does the coffee taste like? Is it more suitable for ligher roasts with more clarity or for medium/dark roasts for more chocolaty texture and volume?

I have Rancilio and EurekaSpecialita, what upgrade do you suggest? I'm bothered by looking for the temperature. I'm thinking about changing to Lelit Bianca or Silvia X Pro, will Eureka Specialita keep up with the new coffee machine? If not, what grinder would be a good option? If I change, I'm thinking about single dose

I have a 53mm thermojet Breville machine that’s working well but very bare bones (it does have PID temperature control but that’s pretty much it when it comes to control, no preinfusion no pressure profiles, no flow control, nothing). I’m considering upgrading to a 58mm ascaso steel duo (don’t want to deal with boilers). I already upgraded my grinder to a pretty decent one (Timemore 078S). Do you think it’s worth the upgrade? Will I taste any difference?

Sorry but the Rancilio barely qualifies as a budget or cheap machine for a lot people. Both of those sets of machinery equal a used car or a few months rent or mortgage to many. But.. maybe I'm just a budget queen wishing I could throw away that much money?

I actually wanna see a Weber Key with De’longhi Dedica. Hahaha.

Grinder is by far the most important piece of kit

Excellent

Should run a swap, good grinder and good machine and compare, then cheaper machine and cheaper grinder, compare. That way it would tell me cheap + cheap grinder = poor flavour, cheap espresso machine + expensive grinder = better flavour. You didnt really answer the question. I didnt see the reading for both on the refratometer.

Wow. I knew all this intellectually, but the fact that almost every person preferred the coffee from the affordable machine and high quality grinder was unexpected. I now will decrease my budget for the machine and focus on the grinder. This one seems quite nice!