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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 😬
What did postman bring today ?
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”
My new coffee machine arrived today:
(I’m also waiting for an ACS Leva, but since I got a decent grinder I’m really enjoying a Turkish coffee in the afternoon!)
New Mazzer burrs for the Solo 64.
£28 delivered- think that was a bargain.
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Sparkling Decaf!
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Got a bag of Yurko from my GGET subscription. Tasting notes say “red currant and spiced ginger / different than other Ethiopian lots this year”. Will dig in when the other 2 open espressos finish up.
4 days later
The Nurri GTO, a small pressure profiling dual boiler with vibration pump. This is a very early prototype pending improvements. It’s a nice little machine, quiet pump and produces a great shot. It arrived 3 weeks ago, but I only unboxed it a few days ago.
A face only a mother could love comes to mind😂
Decent De1pro v1.45 - Niche Duo - Niche Zero - Decent is the best machine ever made -
Our first Imac. Another thing to master.
