Coffee Appreciation

I'm going to be putting a Moccasmaster and Fellow Ode Gen 2 in the Classifieds today FYI, will update this post with links once done

Spotted at Gaff in Deptford, a rare sight of prices being cut! Great coffee too

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Defo going to get a bean to cup , without a milk bit as we need a compact one and will have a look at which reviews later

I’ve got a gaggia titanium in the garage going spare

Was there any explanation? Printed the menu wrong?

Didn’t ask actually just said you don’t often see prices going that way!

It’s like they think NI contributions and living wage are going to go down instead of up

Strangers roasters in Norwich have got 1kg bags of Bon Jesus for £30 today. Just putting that out there.

My cheap espresso machine has died. Finger hovering buy on new Gaggia classic evo for 425£. Anything else I should consider before pushing the button?

Biased owner here, but a Europiccola is around a similar price point and will outlive you with pretty basic maintenance

La Pavoni seconded. I got mine secondhand 15 years ago and it’s still going strong.

Thanks, but I talked myself out of the manual lever thing tho.

That's fair enough to be fair, it's another variable thrown into the mix that can make it trickier to get reliable results.

Learning to decrease the pressure on a manual lever as the coffee gets exhausted gives you such an intuitive understanding of extraction. It’s worth getting the hang of and it’s incredibly satisfying.

I would also agree with that!

Also a silent operating espresso machine is damn satisfying (if you've got a kid and want a coffee first thing in the morning, grinding the beans the night before and getting to have an espresso in peace is a game-changer)

I'm not surprised at the fact, but it would be nice if there were more consumer sprung lever machines on the market. Though this was tempting when I first discovered it: https://www.odysseyespresso.com/argos-lever-espresso-machine

Nice bit of design that. I’d be tempted if it was being produced by a proper business.

Yeah my main concern with a lot of these machines from new companies is the long-term availability of parts.

Naturally that's one of the big plus points of the La Pavonis.

I switched from cheap espresso machine to La Pavoni and love it but I wouldn't recommend it for making more than two drinks in a row.

If you decide to go from the Gaggia DM me as I have a code that will knock an extra tenner off.

First YB order in, looking forward to try it out a bag each of Costa Rican and Guatemalan beans!

Nice - what colour Moccamaster?

This pastel blue one:

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I upgraded from a Gaggia Classic to a HX - small boiler means steam pressure is questionable but otherwise will give you serviceable coffee. Additionally the range of temperatures of the temp stat in the Gaggia means temp surfing is a must if you don’t have a PID installed, otherwise you get a very wide variance in extraction. Also not sure if you can adjust the OPV of the pump (to vary extraction pressure) on the newer gaggia models?

@Stevethecoffee the Argos is being produced by people who know what they are doing and are operating as professionally as a small business can do, speaking as someone who has waited for a preorder for a year and a half and been kept updated with reasonable progress in that time. Of course longevity of the business is a concern but I suppose Decent started out the same way and their development trajectory doesn’t seem questionable in the least. They also try to use industry standard parts for consumables so it’s mostly the electronics that I’d be concerned about support for should they wind the business up. The ability to change between spring and direct, added to the temperature stability of the brew temperature (pretty much the biggest issue with all lever machines of that size) are really big plus points for anyone thinking about going the lever route.

bought a classic evo. shall report back.

Oh that is nice - will keep an eye for the classified ad. How much do you want for it?