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*cheap 49mm off the internet for £12, rather than £45 for the official 49.7mm ROK one.
Got to be better than the shitty spoon/tamper supplied with the machine.Possibly a controversial opinion here, but expensive/fancy tampers are a complete waste of money. As long as the thing can allow you to tamp properly (basically, is it a metal disc with a comfortable handle), everything else is just about how it feels to hold. Think I've been using a similarly cheap one as you've ordered for my Europiccola for the past 3-4 years and another similarly cheap one for my Classic. We had all sorts of fancy tampers when I worked at LMNH, weird curved bottom ones, some fancy Reg Barber ones, those idiotic Chris King ones. Aside from pissing me off at the cost of those things, there was no difference that I could notice.
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Ordered a "proper*" tamper for the ROK presso, determined to get a good shot out of this thing.
Will dust off the Ascaso grinder and nail this once and for all.
(or will be selling it all on by the end of Feb)
*cheap 49mm off the internet for £12, rather than £45 for the official 49.7mm ROK one.
Got to be better than the shitty spoon/tamper supplied with the machine.