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Realistically, do you use yours very often? Gagging an espresso instead of a v60/aeropress...
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Indeed, working in a coffee shop you normally spend a good 5-10 minutes getting the espresso dialled in, then monitoring it throughout the day making small adjustments where necessary. The odds of your first shot being bang on are slim. If you're having an espresso at home once per day, this is the only coffee you're going to drink.
Normally I go for filter, and when I do go for espresso, my wife's flat white gets made first. So I at least can have a decent estimate of any adjustments that need to be made.
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Home espresso is a massive faff and basically the dream you have of making beautiful lil flatties every morning before work very quickly goes out the window!
I don’t agree with that. I make a flat white or other milk-based coffee before work almost every morning and it’s no faff if that’s what you want. I have the espresso machine on a timer so it’s warmed up ready to use when I get up.
Gaggia Classic is hard to go wrong with for a beginner. It’s reliable and consistent. Upgrade the steam wand to the Silvia wand and it does great milk too. Strong resale value too if you genuinely don’t get on with it.
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Home espresso is fantastic and a life saver
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At least for me, work only has disgusting coffee out of a machine that somehow turns perfectly good beans into bitter brown water. And I never have time to go out for coffee.
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Home espresso is a massive faff and basically the dream you have of making beautiful lil flatties every morning before work very quickly goes out the window! However it’s a nice thing to have, especially in this lockdown period.
I’d be probably looking at one of the Sage all in one jobbies if I were doing it again like the one @duncs is selling.