I have received my nurri leva and have been learning how to use it as there’s a learning curve for me on how to adjust the temperature of the grouphead to fit different roasts depending on how light or dark they are - a process I have been enjoying ! Its still early days for me but so far I have been finding it to make very drinkable even shots that are clearly at too high temperature for the beans concerned or even where I botched up the puck preparation. When I have gotten the temp right and done even a passable job at the wdt tool and tamping, it has given really great shots so far. Steaming is so much easier than the izzo which produced so much power in the steam it ws always hard for me to control it.
I cannot also fail to mention how pleasing to the eye the machine is also - unlike my izzo which I have to admit looked like a massive block of stainless steel that dwarfed everything else in my rather small kitchen, the nurri tends to make my kitchen look better (partly by drawing the eye to itself rather than to the rest of the kitchen!). I have the same white with zebrano look that Tom and viernes have with their machines and it looks almost like it is crouching on my counter top like a bird of prey with its zebrano wings folded back!
Interestingly the sloping nature of the machine makes it look smaller to my eye than it actually is, but of course for me I had gotten used to seeing the izzo there, so virtually any machine other thna the izzo would look smaller….
