Archive for " Nov 2010 "

Espresso Theory-pressure profiling

Dear Reader,
Â
Pressure profiling essentially describes the abilityof the espresso machine to change the brewing pressure during the extraction of a shot and then save your changes in a program to be repeated on the bar.  The hope, of course, is to improve espresso coffee.
I see no increase in espresso quality through pressure profiling.  My opportunities to play [...]

Equipment-direct dosing grinders

Dear Reader,
Â
After many efforts to assist in the manufacture of a new grinder with no Italian-style dosing hopper (read: air/coffee mixing device that contributes annoying clacking sounds to the espresso bar) I decided to just outfit my own DRM grinders with Mazzer cones. (I use the mixed-burr model with the rubber drive belt.) A few [...]