Coffee Appreciation

I’ve got the barista pro and really like it. Easy to use and consistent. I don’t like too much faff and tend to use the same two or three coffees, each with the same grind size and just slightly different timings which is a piece of piss in manual mode. A single boiler is fine for my usage and the milk frother thing is alright too

Having a machine that expensive with a £500 grinder does seem rather counter intuitive

Does anyone happen to have this bit from a Hario v60 drop decanter going begging?

Accidentally threw mine out in the chaos of a burst-pipe flood cleanup.

Can't find anywhere to buy just this bit and I imagine there might be someone out there who has accidentally broken the glass carafe?

Happy to pay for it / forum donate etc.

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I've got one, I broke a decanter so had to buy a new one. Let me see if I can dig it out?

AMAZING!
Thanks so much.

Be interested to hear how you get on with this - it's such a lovely looking thing but £££ when I compare it to some similar machines

Found it, I'm in E7.

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MY HERO!
I'll DM you

I love mine, also paired with a Niche grinder. Way better IMHO than anything I’ve owned previously. Also my wife and eldest can use it easily, whereas they couldn’t with previous machines. Yes, you’re paying for the name, yes other machines have variable pressure/flow, iPads etc. I just like the simplicity, build, design and brand. Oh and it makes cracking, repeatable coffee!

What grinder would you pair with it?

Budget?

Monolith obviously….

Tbh. I find my Niche absolutely fine. Yes I’d like a Monolith with Shuriken burrs, but that’ll have to wait.

Honestly I don’t know the range. The equal of the coffee machine, in grinder terms.

I honestly think the Niche is a great fit for the Linea. Relatively simple/uncomplex in an aesthetic package, both pretty forgiving to use. User experience is the priority.

If you wanted something fancier and a different sort of profile, Zerno Z1 is shiny and has great build quality at a reassuringly expensive price.

Maybe a Weber Key if you want to drop even more money and are after that same Niche conical grind vibe but better?

Classy setup from WVA

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Anyone aware of an airtight capsule that might fit inside the the hollow part of the plunger on the aeropress go to store coffee in?

Small vitamin supplements bottle.
One of these holds about 33g of coffee and is 85mm tall. Fits in the piston of an aeropress with space around it for some filters. plenty of height to spare in a full size plunger.
https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/holland-barrett-magnesium-with-zinc-tablets-60012650

The weird 4-way channelling I was getting in this post. The water distribution was dreadful and on closer inspection was spraying everywhere. When I took it all off for a closer look, I also noticed the shower screen was being pulled almost flat against the dispersion plate like @giles337 described.

So, fix it time. The holes in the OEM dispersion plate are actually tapered from 3.5mm on the back to 4.5mm on the shower screen side. The holes are also a bit further away from the edge. That meant not drilling down the same holes because they were too close to the edge. I considered trying to find a 3.5mm slot drill, but decided a centre drill would be stiffer and the 60° taper would do the taper in the hole. Result below.

To deal with the shower screen, it needs a shim under where the bolt goes through to stop it pulling down. I’ve got an M5 washer pressed into a slight cone shape, a stainless M6 washer which sits either side of the divot on the shower screen and a brass M6 washer. The stainless M6 washer works best as the brass one is too thick and the M5 one is plated plain steel so it’ll rust.

Finally, swapped the countersunk Philips screw for a stainless Allen-headed one from my stash.

The result is a really good, even shower of water which doesn’t photograph well. Proof is in the pudding and I’ll find out if it’s worked tomorrow morning.

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Having watched a few grinder videos now is the key thing to get a machine that can run 98mm flat burrs? Or is the excitable chap I watched most recently overselling the importance of that somewhat?

140mm or gtfo
https://www.mpechicago.com/product/gpxwci/

Looking at options it very much looks like I'm going to buy whatever I can buy, as (for example) the Lagom P100 is 'late august' and that seems fairly common.

Phoo, out of my league, that’s about 6x what I paid.
Enjoy whatever you eventually pick up.

Proof is in the pudding and I’ll find out if it’s worked tomorrow morning.

Near-perfect shot this morning with no channelling and nice, even extraction at the bottom of the puck. I’m calling that a win. Thanks everyone who offered advice about the dispersion plate holes, shower screen fit etc, I wouldn’t have known to do all this otherwise.

Immensely satisfying outcome. Top work.

It's a little more complex than that.

One thing to bear in mind is your taste preferences might not mimic theirs. Large flats are great for picking out flavor notes and getting 'tea-like' clarity out of light roasts. They aren't as great for goopy thick espresso. Additionally, the La Marzocco is not really designed for pushing the boundaries the way that the big flat unimodal crowd like (flow profiling, etc...).