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  1. Sold
    View Advert Rancilio Silva v6 (2020) & VST Baskets & Accessories I'm selling this Silvia v6 which was purchased in April 2021 from Bella Barista, with warranty until Mar 2023. Great condition, used for about 10 shots a week since April, so basically as good as new. Also included a...
  2. Sold
    I'm selling this Silvia v6 which was purchased in April 2021 from Bella Barista, with warranty until Mar 2023. Great condition, used for about 10 shots a week since April, so basically as good as new. Also included a load of accessories- 18g VST basket 20g VST basket Motta milk pitcher...
  3. Coffee Accessories
    Another bump here… has anyone found a fix for this? My Arc scales worked fine for a few weeks but now stop at 4 seconds while the weight continues working as normal.
  4. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Now with more latte art! …not perfect but it tasted great! Again, the Motta is a game changer, I didn't expect to product these results with oat milk so early into my espresso journey!
  5. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    I got another 1kg bag from Newground which has been really enjoyable and using the same beans has allowed me to practice a bit more consistently. I've noticed a couple of things this week. Firstly 17g in an 18g VST basket seems to work well. At 18g I get a deep indentation from the screen nut...
  6. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    All things considered I think it looks pretty good! Better than a plastic bottle! I think I may just keep the doser until such time I feel I can justify the Mazzer Mini 'E' or an alternative. Whilst I love trying new roasts/roasters and tend to drop a new bag in the hopper once a week or so...
  7. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Sorry I didn't explain very well. I'm not single dosing, I just fill the hopper and run the timed switch which if I turn the switch until the motor kicks in, it tends to drop a loosely accurate 17-19g into the doser which I'll then dose into the PF. If I'm over the dose weight and I'm making...
  8. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    I'm awaiting new coffee so haven't been making much the last couple of days. Had an absolute shocker and wasted a load of coffee, posting this for laughs… The Mazzer wasn't grinding anything, couldn't work out why, the motor was running fine, hopper had beans in. I thought the burr might...
  9. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Right on, thanks. As espresso, I wasn't really noticing it unpleasant, but with milk it just tasted sour. The reason I think it's down to technique over the beans (beyond the obvious reason I'm literally one week into making espresso at home…) is that the precious beans I was using came...
  10. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Just with one of those thermometers that clips to a milk jug. I measured a shot after extraction in the warmed cup as I'd drink it before. I appreciate there's variables that cool it a bit once it's out of the group so it was probably higher than 60. Measuring in the same way with the machine...
  11. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    I made a discovery today… My shots, whilst tasty, had been tasting a little sour. Especially with milk. (I use Oatly Barista so I don't think it's the milk…) I'd been heating the machine for as long as it took for the boiler light to go out… what an error! Turns out I was...
  12. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Great tips on the sweeper mod thanks! Got a new coffee in the hopper today and I'm so impressed. It's a Caravan Colombian called 'Risaralda'. I had to go a few hairs finer on the grind but getting 18g-38g in about 32 seconds and it tastes really good. Seeing improvements each day which is great.
  13. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Haha I'm still waiting for my phone to be repaired after the issues mentioned when trying to take video of the shot. Here's a quick one!
  14. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Ok got it set up and incredibly impressed straight away. The factory recommended setting on the sticker was spot-on (as I suppose it's meant to be). Even my partner noticed a taste improvement when she tried the espresso. She's into coffee but hugely sceptical about this new mass of equipment...
  15. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Thanks yeah I hear you. Not to make this thread my life story but I was in a pretty gnarly non-fault motorcycle crash a couple of years ago. A decent coffee setup doesn't really make up for the long-term injuries I have but afterwards I said I'd set aside a little treat budget to get myself a...
  16. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    I got the timer one, but yes I see your point. I'll just run it cafe style and make 100 espressos a day. Jokes aside I might just see how much I need in the doser to actually work an accurate dose with the lever. Failing that it looks like I'm buying the funnel kit! I just watched a vid...
  17. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    I just did a bit of Googling, seems like it is possible to set up to 8g dose per pull but it requires the doser to be relatively full to enable gravity to help with the way the doser works. Which makes sense as you say in a cafe environment where the doser would be constantly refilled.
  18. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Great, thanks so much. I'm sure I can figure this out when it arrives but if the doser is designed to be filled regularly, presumably the amount dosed using the lever can be adjusted? Is it possible to set it to dose a predetermined amount with x number of lever pulls? I always weigh my PF...
  19. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    I must admit there's a bit of a personal aesthetic appeal of the Mazzer. I remember each morning when I lived in London I'd see them lined up on the counter at Goswell Road Coffee probably 10 years ago and always wanted one. I appreciate it may have it's flaws for the money. I think I'm going...
  20. Barista Skills for the home enthusiast
    Thanks all, looking forward to getting it set up. Regarding the price, I went back and checked and the £329 was ex-VAT so about £390 all in, a shade under £200 more than the SGP but hopefully a machine to last me many years.
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