Changing it up a little

Kelsey

Over the weekend I experimented (out of necessity) with a somewhat different way of working with my machine.

I'll typically run my BZ07 between 90 and 93 degrees, brew the coffee, then texture the milk.

But with a big family gathering underway the HX struggles with texturing a litre of milk in one hit if the boiler temp is too low.

This time I cranked up the PID to 96 and then began texturing at the same time as starting a brew. I had the idea due to  recent knowledge upgrades to do with lever machines - they start the shot hot and cool off during the course of the shot.

So this had a double benefit - both simulating a lever style temp drop as well as allowing enough pressure for my milk to texture with the masses of steam that was now available.

I can't say the shots suffered for the treatment - or were any better for that matter, but they were certainly no worse!

askthecoffeeguy

On a similar tangent I got my "found" (I rescued it from hard waste and restored it) em6910 back from loan recently, and have been playing around with it for the first time since I repaired it, and I got some advice from Mark aka anger management, on how to boost the stream pressure / temperature / dryness, which had been my main bone of contention with this machine Now my stream pressure is much improved and the resulting stream is much dryer, simply by boosting the stream temperature by 10C! The machine is still a bit light on compared to the beasts that I'm used to working with, but the shot quality is fine and the resulting quality in the cup is good enough to serve to my guests at home, who tend to be pretty discerning about their coffee ~ so that's a good endorsement IMHO!