what equipment are you using?

askthecoffeeguy

man - with all that gear you a definitely in the wrong industry! Gotta get into espresso in a major way! Have you considered roasting?

YeeZa

man - with all that gear you a definitely in the wrong industry! Gotta get into espresso in a major way! Have you considered roasting?

I roast on my balcony with a heatgun/breadmaker. I have a stash of various greens of about 50+kgs. But if someone wants to donate a little 2kg roaster feel free 😉 ;D

DoubleRistretto

ECM Giotto plus ECM/Anfim grinder + various tampers Have to say the Giotto's a few years old now. Doesn't produce as much steam as the premium, but I'm still pretty happy with it

Coffee_on_the_Kerb

Expobar Brewtus and Macap M4 on the bench at home and Expobar Megacrem and M4 in the Van, Pullman tampers, but playing around with the Eazy Tamp at the moment, interesting little thing. Cheers ;D

askthecoffeeguy

well... I recently purchased a Rancilio S24 as a gift for myself for father's day from the bay of evil but couldn't get the thing to fire up - so I sent it back to the place of purchase and it turns out that the water intake hose was not properly connected - no major drama but it's across the other side of town and I don't get over there much any more so I asked a mate to pick it up and now he's installed in his home and says it works like a charm! good for him! I've still got my trusty Bezzera Domus Galatea working nicely, and a couple of machines in pieces in my workshop, so it's not as if I haven't got enough to keep me going still haven't told the misses about the new machine (well... I did mention something about it but I don't think I mentioned that it was an extreme machine), so we'll prob pop over to visit our friends, and she will be like: "oh... nice coffee machine" and they will prob say something like: "thanks, you own it!" pat

Koffee_Kosmo

This Espresso Machine is the home machine and I love it Our immediate family have always owned cafes. One was always close to home. We could pop in anytime for an espresso as long as I made it myself Recently as last year some relatives have sold the cafes or relocated on the other side of the city so I got my own E61 machine from Barazi here in Brisbane for home use No travelling involved to get a great coffee Espresso Machine: Bezzera Domus Galatea Grinder: Macap M4D Stepped Tamper: Pullman Barista Convex Roaster: Turbo Roaster Home Made. And always improving Koffee Kosmo

askthecoffeeguy

I've gotta admit that although there's fancier equipment with all kind of temperature stability specifications - I can't go past my Bezzera Domus Galatea when it comes to making consistently great coffee!

Koffee_Kosmo

Yea Pat I tend to agree with you The Bezzera is a top machine its not only made well. It produces good espresso with ease I made a great choice in picking the Galatea as my first machine KK

greenman

Machine: Isomac Tea HX Grinder: in transition -- Rocky/looking at Macap M4D Pullman Huon Pine tamper ACF cups, Bodum glasses, Bumper kb and tamper stand Corretto roaster--Breville bm, Ryobi hg, DMM datalogger 40kg green beans--El Salvador, Brazil, Indian, Sumatran, Sulawesi, Kenya, Ethiopian, PNG, Nicaraguan, Honduran.........................

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just started using a k10 wbc. I likey ;D. Using a G10, which I used to like. But am really keen to get something a little better, maybe a synesso sabre?? any thoughts anyone

askthecoffeeguy

mate its a n=big jump from a G10 to a Sabre - not to mention the $10k price difference - how do you justify that one to the bank manager?

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Well, hopefully my plans will work. will keep you posted. But yes a big $$$ difference I know

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any suggestions otherwise peoples

askthecoffeeguy

I cant go past my BFC Synchro from Veneziano - Its half the price of the big name machines with shot quality which is absolutely on par with the best out there...

hazchem

ahhh gear. toys. there's never enough is there? Espresso Machine: Miss Silvia Brewed coffee: Clever coffee dripper Grinder: Compak K10WBC & Mahlkonig Vario Tamper: Pullman Barista Convex, Deluxe convex, Espro Convex Roaster: Genecafe trying to decide what needs to be upgraded next .... roaster or espresso machine? I'm leaning towards replacing Miss Silvia at the moment

askthecoffeeguy

home machine: Rancilio S24 commercial single group grinder: Mazzer Major / Sunbeam em460 roaster: Koffee Kosmo Corretto old school is the new school and I'm getting some pretty handy results using these old favourites!

Lovey

Evening all, There's been a recent addition to the household, which I thought I'd share with you all. I now have a La Spaziale mini Vivaldi II (black sides) on the bench, next to the Macap M4, Bumper tamp stand, black Coffeelab tamper and Sunbeam 'bang bang'. A Behmor roaster now sits in the garage, which has taken over duties from my previous 'coretto' roaster. I'm a very happy camper now. All the best, Steve.

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La Cimbali Junior Coffee Machine and La Cimbali commercial grinder..

Dry_bean

Lefty13 wrote:

La Cimbali Junior Coffee Machine and La Cimbali commercial grinder..

G'day Lefty, joined 2007, first post today, surely not. :-)

Dry_bean

What have I got on the bench at any one time will be? A Bezzera Domus Galatea. Mazzer Mini grinder. Reg Barber tamper. Digital scales. I roast on a Corretto, use a data logger, Bosch "model 630E" variable heat/fan speed heat gun and have made up a very effective and cheap bean cooler. And all of the other paraphernalia you seem to collect over time. :🙂