what equipment are you using?

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. :🙂

Dry_bean

Lovey wrote:

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.

Steve. [/quote] Sounds like a nice set up Steve, the Mini Vivaldi certainly is a good looking machine, how does it perform?

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Dry bean. wrote:

Lefty13 wrote:

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

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

Yeah joined a while ago, but lost my User details and only recently remembered i was a member of this forum... haha. Oh well, better late than never...

Dry_bean

Lefty13 wrote:

Dry bean. wrote:

Lefty13 wrote:

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

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

Yeah joined a while ago, but lost my User details and only recently remembered i was a member of this forum... haha. Oh well, better late than never...

So tell us a little about yourself Lefty, coffee preferences, experience in the coffee game, do you have a grinder, are you a home roaster, you know the kind of stuff.

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Just enjoy coffee in general. I was lucky enough to get a good price on a La Cimbali Junior S: http://www.cimbali.it/ita/pr_scheda.asp?id=6 and Junior Grinder: http://www.cimbali.it/ita/pr_scheda.asp?id=69 through a friend. I'm not a home roaster and to tell you the truth not really interested. Quite happy in just drinking coffee with mates etc.

askthecoffeeguy

My Rancilio S24 is a very similar machine to the La Chimbali Junior - in fact I wouldn't be surprised if you popped the lid on both that the internals turned out to be well... lets just say very well matched! And my S24 pulls better shots than some much more expensive pro-sumer machines that I've owned in the past: bought it as a back up for small catering jobs and ended up replacing my other equipment with it - at the end of the day to me at least my semi-commercial machine has more pulling power (as in long slow extraction times without blonding / burning / or choking the coffee - than many of the 'bling' home machines I have tried "Its all about the coffee" ACg

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I love the Rancilio's - beautiful machine. What coffee are you currently using Coffee Guy?

Dry_bean

Lefty13 wrote:

Just enjoy coffee in general. I was lucky enough to get a good price on a La Cimbali Junior S: http://www.cimbali.it/ita/pr_scheda.asp?id=6 and Junior Grinder: http://www.cimbali.it/ita/pr_scheda.asp?id=69 through a friend. I'm not a home roaster and to tell you the truth not really interested. Quite happy in just drinking coffee with mates etc.

Not every body is into roasting Lefty, though it does seem to be a natural progression, and of course there are substantial cost savings to consider.

askthecoffeeguy

Lefty13 wrote:

I love the Rancilio's - beautiful machine. What coffee are you currently using Coffee Guy?

I roast my own for home use currently I'm on the Guatemalan Huehuetenango - roasted on a Koffee Kosmo Corretto home roaster..

Dry_bean

askthecoffeeguy wrote:

Lefty13 wrote:

I love the Rancilio's - beautiful machine. What coffee are you currently using Coffee Guy?

I roast my own for home use currently I'm on the Guatemalan Huehuetenango - roasted on a Koffee Kosmo Corretto home roaster..

What do you think of the Huehue ATG?

askthecoffeeguy

Unbelievable coffee very elegant and refined with pear and wslnut tart flavours and finishing with some nice acidity - just bought another 5kg for home use and I'll even run a bit through my cafe if the roast is up to scratch !

Dry_bean

askthecoffeeguy wrote:

Unbelievable coffee very elegant and refined with pear and wslnut tart flavours and finishing with some nice acidity - just bought another 5kg for home use and I'll even run a bit through my cafe if the roast is up to scratch !

(wslnut tart flavours) What's a wslnut? weasel nut, the mind boggles. ;D Thanks for the description ATG, reckon I would pick the acidity, but as for Pear or weasel nut, don't think so. 😉

Lovey

Dry bean. wrote:

Sounds like a nice set up Steve, the Mini Vivaldi certainly is a good looking machine, how does it perform?

G'day Dry Bean, sorry about the delay in getting back to you, I've just gotten home from a week away. The machine is going great, its just the nut on the end of the portafilter that's the problem ;D It's certainly a change from the Giotto, I've had to do a bit of 're-learning' to get my dosing method sorted out, but I think I've got it sorted now and I'm going great guns on it. All the best, Steve.

askthecoffeeguy

Dry bean. wrote:

askthecoffeeguy wrote:

Unbelievable coffee very elegant and refined with pear and wslnut tart flavours and finishing with some nice acidity - just bought another 5kg for home use and I'll even run a bit through my cafe if the roast is up to scratch !

(wslnut tart flavours) What's a wslnut? weasel nut, the mind boggles. ;D Thanks for the description ATG, reckon I would pick the acidity, but as for Pear or weasel nut, don't think so. 😉

yeah its very similar to a walnut but more exotic... I'm a former sommelier and wine writer so I;m used to waxing lyrical!

Koffee_Kosmo

Thought I would update the current equipment list as its changed since my last entry Bezzera BZ40 BNZ MD74 conical grinder Cona Syphon Pullman Barista tamper KKTO roaster X 2 I feel like a king in my castle KK

askthecoffeeguy

Likewise: Rancilio S24 Baby Gagia (15 yrs old and rebuilt) KKTO turbo roaster Mazzer Super Jolly grinder Sunbeam EM480 grinder Bodum Santos Syphon And about 50kg of green beans!

askthecoffeeguy

AM wrote:

Only " about 50kg of green beans! " Slacker :-)

Yeah - I'm trying to cut down...

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