How To: Elektra Microcasa a leva espresso machine with Ascaso grinder

[@smoog]

Thanks for the two YT videos regarding this machine. Especially the bit about how hot it gets! After years of promising myself I would buy one, I finally did. It arrived today and, with your vids to step me through, I made my first real espresso - and it was delicious. This is an awesome machine!

[@1st-lineequipment]

That's so great! We look forward to hearing more about your experiences with it in the future :)

[@morpheusandrew5153]

The espresso looks proper.. btw you forgot to clean the steaming wand...

[@johnreynolds7163]

Would be great/highly reco a full vid on the descale process. I see the full circle powder ( can one use the tablets & do you dilute in h20 & then add into the machine??? thanks for the help , lastly wahts the frequency of the descale for daily use of 204 drinks

[@glennsmooth1243]

How often do u have to run the cleaning powder through it?

[@ugurkazim5315]

And I always stamp my coffee and fill more coffee, to have the maximum amount of coffee to water ratio.

[@ugurkazim5315]

Why over fill the coffee just to dump it out, Why not just fill the right amount of coffee to the rim and done.

[@nexstar00]

You didn't tamp at all, but it still came out nice...

[@Positivepeep]

It’s a very forgiving machine. He sort of used gravity and tapping as a tamper. However, if you see how quickly the lever went up, it was not that packed.