Yeah, that's pretty much why I added in a caveat - I wasn't really looking at absolute temps. When the coffee's hot, it's not scalded and it's very very good. I just needed to figure out why I was pulling the odd cold shot - and I'm new enough to the world of single boilers that I needed to understand how my machine in particular functions. So I definitely wouldn't take those temps as accurate! 😃 What they've given me is an understanding of how temperature ebbs and flows in the machine - and now I know that provided the machine's been flushed a couple of times (pretty much irrespective of how long it's been on) anything longer than 20 seconds after the boiler light goes out will give me a good shot - temperature wise at least. I'm making a bunch of other mistakes, but at least it's hot enough!! ;D Did anyone have a think about whether it seemed reasonable that it would take 500ml of water through the grouphead to get a 500ml boiler to turn on? Or is it more likely that the manual's wrong and the boiler is 1.5L as a couple of sites and the eBay listing claim?
