If you have a 58mm portafilter then for less than £10 I’ve got this dosing funnel off eBay:
There is no rim that sits inside the basket or impacts the bed and it has a few magnets to hold in place (not super strong but do the job)
What did postman bring today ?
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Perfect on my VST basket
BigTTony which dosing funnel do you have? Is it an ‘inny’ or an ‘outy’?
I’m finding it’s quite a well debated topic that some feel the ‘inny’ versions create channelling issues, but the counter argument is that the inner rim doesn’t penetrate deeply enough to cause the effect. I’ve kind of concluded that spending £2500 on my set up is justification in itself to buy a dosing funnel that doesn’t sit inside the rim
It’s an innie, but the edges don’t go low enough to be anywhere near the coffee, so it doesn’t matter. It’s also the best dosing ring of all…because it was free. Ceado gave me it at Host 2019 (when they used to like me).
Mark-drinks-coffee appreciate the link, but I dose 22g per coffee so it needs to be a tall funnel. The one I’ve got right now is around the same size and I have to clean up coffee grinds on every occasion!
DavecUK fair enough. Maybe I’ve just convinced myself I need an outie version, but we all know that good coffee is about getting your variables stable and consistent. The hoff even dries his basket on every occasion as he feels that any water whatsoever provides a faster route and effects water penetrating the entire Puck evenly. This would be a broadly similar argument
Fair enough, I guess we all work out a workflow that works for us.
Very nice of them to keep my order pending on request. These two will rest for 2 weeks and go in freezer.
Same here ! Kindly delayed my order so I can go through at least some of the coffee stored …
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Unfortunately Chelbesa ran out and they took the liberty of replacing it with Kisinga; they didn’t ask me, though. They think it is as good as or better than Chelbesa. I am sure they would not have sent if they had thought otherwise. Let’s see.
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Technically the postman hasn’t brought it yet but I got this today which made me equal parts exhilarated and fearful as I’m not sure if I fully squared the purchase away at the time with the boss 😬
Ordered a Niche for the work office. Facilities will still supply beans for the Luigi, but now anyone can single dose on the Niche.
Not shown are an IMS basket, a scale, and a calibrated tamper.
While I’m not in love with return to office, might as well make the best of it
Will do some head to head between the grinders after we get a new group gasket for the espresso machine and when I’m allowed out of quarantine
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hthec super lucky to be a Audio HW Systems Lead for Google
I just said that the beans provided didn’t have a good mean acceptance score and that roast / bean type was deeply personal and they said go get what you need.
audiomacgyver I’m curious though, who dials in the mazzer? And what espresso machine do you guys have there?
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hthec I joined a bit over 2 years ago during the pandemic so I have yet to experience real office work. But co-workers have said that even if facilities made some attempt to set the doser time and grind setting, someone is likely to change it shortly after or it was just bad.
I bought a scale so I could dial it in and have for the Niche setup. I don’t mind taking over dialing it in. Folks are already excited about the Niche. So I think they will leave it alone once it tastes decent. I kind of think of the Mazzer as mass production and the Niche as the DOE single dosing input.
This is the break room right near my desk. This one has a Unic Mira Twin Pro. Other break rooms have more traditional machines like Rockets.
There is also a place called Coffee Lab with pour over stations and a couple of Clovers. Still so much for me to explore!
Yeah ok, now I’m fascinated! What’s going on here then?!
My guess is some kind of an emersion brewer with a filter at the bottom of the brew chamber that pushes up and expels the used grounds? Kind of like an automatic French press!?
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Mark-drinks-coffee Sort of, watching it definitely makes you want one and when they first came out everyone raved about it. It basically does a quick steep, assisted by stirring, the piston moving up and down with various valves opening and closing sucks the liquid from the coffee bed, dispenses it into the cup….
Finally all those people who used to work at Garage forecourts, use a squeegee to scrap the mess into the old coffee holder. $12,000 usd each…madness!
DavecUK Finally all those people who used to work at Garage forecourts, use a squeegee to scrap the mess into the old coffee holder.
It did make me laugh that for a machine that obviously had a lot of engineering (and a huge price-tag), the clean up was so brutally manual! “Quick - sweep the dirt down that hole there”
