Sham - Coffee Sensor sells them:
Wanted 51 mm puck screen
MediumRoastSteam That’s costing me £25 with delivery, for reference from Aliexpress it cost £4 including delivery (for the exact same thing with a logo slapped on, as coffee sensor and Bplus source from similar Chinese manufacturers/Alibaba). To be fair the delivery is a lot faster compared to Aliexpress, but the big price difference puts a sour taste in my mouth to overpay so much :/
Sham - apologies. I only now realise this was a “Wanted” advert. :-(
Sham added the Wanted or Swap tag .
Sham Hermes lost it 😭 I don’t have it in me to order a new one to wait 2 months again (and other ones I found are too expensive).
I lost hope and gave up 2.5 months after ordering a small item from AliExpress, then two weeks later it came through the letterbox, so maybe there is still a chance?
If you don’t want to wait, Blue Star coffee has them. Works out just over 10 Euros (~£8.5) delivered to the UK.
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MediumRoastSteam Didn’t know there was a wanted tag until now xd
Edit: Didn’t find that site when I was searching, £8.50 is a pretty good deal.
Sham Edit: Didn’t find that site when I was searching, £8.50 is a pretty good deal.
Did you try clicking the link (blue underlined font)? ;-)
Here it is again: https://www.bluestarcoffee.eu/lower-shower-puck-screen-thick-18213-p.asp?v=0&variantid=18214
I ordered one from Amazon the other day (58mm) from this company (they do 51mm too). It’s pretty good from what I can tell after 2 uses.
Puck Filter,Coffee Portafilter Puck Screen Food Grade Stainless Steel Coffee Making Filter Screen 50μm Filter Fineness(51mm)
11 days later
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So I ordered a 51.5 mm from blue star coffee, it took 1 week to arrive but they sent the wrong one, 53.5 mm 😂… Very good quality though and only £10 including delivery. Good customer service too, they are sending me the correct size and I can keep the 53.5 mm. Not sure what to do with that one though
4 days later
Do you still use it now? I am thinking to order one … what do you think?
I use it every time I make a coffee. Beautiful clean pucks knocked out every time
That’s great. Thanks!
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It does exactly what I wanted it to do in terms of clean pucks and also keeps the group very clean which is noticeable when I run water through it to clean after pulling a shot. A damned sight more successful than most accessories I’ve ever bought. But that’s another story 😆
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The best one I saw was on another forum where someone was buying this brush (or a very similar one) from the Aliexpress because an official one was around £100 to buy - not sure which brand it was but £100???? I couldn’t believe my eyes
￡9.73 28%OFF | For 57-59MM Coffee Machine Brewing Head Plastic Handle Clean Brush Espresso Silicone Coffee Machine Brushes Cafe Grinder Cleaner
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They sent me a 53.5mm puck again……😭
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I am happy it’s working out for you guys!
IMHO, this is a hype. May be, this is just me.
Is it suitable for non-lever? Some like it for a variety of reasons; some thinks it is a thrash. I don’t own these type of machines.
If we look at the lever, it’s probably will fit into machines, which extract at 6 bars pressure to increase the extraction.
Those machines, which hit 9 bars or higher, already gets the best out of the puck.
Our Evo consistently hits >10.5 bars pressure giving us a fantastic cup. Sure, it disperses the water evenly. However, as @SL01 beautifully explains, it also pushes the extractions to undesirable levels pushing them to extremes; one may refer his post for a nice technical explanation.
Yeah, the shower screen is clean; the spent puck is a beauty, which I am not interested in. What interests me is the tasty liquid in the cup, which the beastly Evo nails it every time. The screen, unfortunately, spoils the output.
What about the shower screen? Either one cleans the shower screen or the puck screen. Cleaning the shower screen towards the end of the day takes a few secs at the max. We just give it a wipe at the end of the day. We drop the Evo’s shower screen every week. We hardly find anything to clean. We just wipe and put it back.
May be, I should permanently remove the shower screen and use the puck screen to avoid pulling an espresso on steroids! 😂
In summary, call me an old school or a week-end rant from an old man! But, this old man know a thing or two about coffee now !
Have a good evening and a great week end guys ! My Gin and Tonic is staring at me.
From my perspective - I’ve not bought it for any reasons other than giving me a solid puck to knock out and it has the benefit of keeping the group clean. It works on both fronts and does the job I bought it for so very happy with it.
I’ve seen various claims of how the screens mprove the shot and flow of water through the puck etc. - none of that interested me to be honest. I just wanted clean pucks and a clean screen.