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So I need a different machine?
Or to drink doubles?
It’s my wife’s fault. She wanted the classic I wanted the flair/rok. For the money we spent I could have got the robot that people rave about. But I didn’t like the arms and my wife hated the way it looked.
Doubles all round. I’ll order a 20g vst and bottomless portafilter on payday.
Light_EDDed
Nef
My experience with the Classic’s single shot basket is the puck almost always sticks to the shower screen. It’s a slightly compromised design because the 58mm portafilter is really designed to take a straight-sided basket that size, and that means a ~20g dose of coffee. The single shot basket tries to get around this by having heavily tapered sides, but it’s then not an ideal shape for espresso pulling. If you only do single shots, you might actually be better with a machine with a smaller portafilter which takes less coffee.