BrendaninBrooklyn Flair 58+ = $640; Meticulous planned price =$ 2,000; now available as a special Indiegogo price = $1,350.
Meticulous started at just over 1000usd and as I said not far off, especially in the world of espresso where people are paying hundreds for a smart profiler, a scale, some wood add ons or a basket 🤣 Strietman and higher end levers are still far more than this, so relatively speaking it’s not crazy money if this is your thing - a big gamble sure.
BrendaninBrooklyn Most manual levers … nope. La Pavoni, Olympic Cremina, Argos Odyssey, and spring levers Elektra MCAL, Ponte Vecchio Lusso, Londinium Compressa, Izzo Alex Leva, more… will turn out lots of shots quickly, assuming the user is competent.
Meticulous ’workflow on the other hand cannot
I meant manual boilerless levers like Flair, Cafelat, etc where workflow and quick back to back shots capability is often also a common complaint, but you’re missing the point by comparing it to machines that either need temp surfed, cooled between shots, heavily modded or cost considerably more than the Meticulous.
This isn’t for some cafe with lots of customers, it’s for people who want to tweak every element of their shot, look at the graphs and taste different styles of espresso - not dump it in a latte or another milky drink. May not be for many of us on the forum but we can still acknowledge that there’s a bunch of people who want this sort of thing otherwise it wouldn’t have got funded in the first place.