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  1. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    Okay - so I'm a bit of an idiot. I took the grinder apart and there was a bit of something stuck in the burrs. I think this was making it sound like the burrs were touching when they weren't so when I was trying to calibrate the grind it was much too large (can't believe I didn't notice this...
  2. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    Right - I'm going to do a thoroughly clean and fiddle with the grinder as I'd been focussed on the Gaggia. If that isn't it I'll get a new group head. The temperature control seems fine (coffee is about the right temperature when it isn't all over my clothes). I gave the shower screen a quick...
  3. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    Back from new year and still coffee starved. I use VST baskets, although I have tried both the normal (not pressurised!) basket and the VST. Just to make clear - I've never had anything even close to this happen before and have changed nothing about my technique. I've also tried several beans...
  4. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    I changed it about 6 months ago. There is a little escaping around the edges of the portafilter if I don't tighten it in place hard but the main problem is mad channelling through the puck (sorry - didn't make that clear!). I'd think it was me if it had happened before but I've pretty much never...
  5. 🪛🔧 Technical | Faults | How-to's ❓ℹ
    I've had my Gaggia classic (second hand - its about 10 years old) for a year or so. I'd gotten pretty good with it, but all of a sudden I can't do anything without it spurting coffee everywhere. I've not had this at all before - my preparation and tamping are pretty good - but now I can't even...
  6. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Thanks moomaa (great name). Going to see how feasible it would be to diy PID at work I think. If I did that would only cost 30 or so quid so not much lost either way.
  7. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Hmm. I've realised I can maybe get the tools to diy PID at work so tempted to give that a go but yeah, I feel I'm inevitably going to upgrade at some point (and being a tight arse brewtus ticks the boxes for me). Thanks again for all your help people.
  8. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Thanks for all the advice. I'm fine with pissy bonfires, my main concern is not spending money that is then wasted. Hmm...
  9. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    http://coffeeforums.co.uk/showthread.php?19674-DIY-PID-Steam-and-Brew/ aha! Found this. Tempted...
  10. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Hmm, NJD, are there any good guides out there? A quick google has opened a pandoras box of people arguing about PIDs! I would have exactly the same set up as you if I did it, including the tamper! Thanks!
  11. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    I was thinking about doing a DIY PID but as someone with limited DIY knowledge and no tools other than a couple of screwdrivers in my tiny London flat, I thought it might end up being a false economy as I'd have to buy EVERYTHING and would probably never use half of it again.
  12. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Aaron, for someone just starting out and generally making one drink at a time, do you reckon I would get much benefit from buying a Brewtus (obviously slightly less shiny but in the ballpark of your Profitec) compared to just PIDing the gaggia? My main worry with the PID is that they don't seem...
  13. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    So after a few months of owning a classic and a mignon I'm pretty hooked. I've got a consistent routine, I'm generally happy with my coffee and I feel I'm learning a lot about beans, extraction ratios etc. However the thing that is currently annoying me at the minute is temperature, and I feel...
  14. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    I got the impression the OP didn't have a specific problem but there's just so much to learn! For me I think temperature is my enemy at the minute, feel like I'm stumbling around blindly with it on the classic. Progress feels good (and tastes delicious!) when you make it though.
  15. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    As someone about 3 or 4 months on from you - yes. The plus side is I'm constantly wired as I try new things. What grinder are you using?
  16. Coffee Beans
    After having struggled with my CC natural yirgacheffe I decided to buy some HasBean beans next in the end, and will buy those foundry yirgacheffe next. As I got towards the end of the CC yirgacheffe I started to get some amazing flat whites - the strawberry flavours really started coming out...
  17. Coffee Lounge ☮❤
    Hi guys. Sk8-bizarre, how did the attempts to get them posted go? Doubleshot asked me about picking up some cups as I live in north London and I said I'm okay with the idea in principle. My main reservations are that I probably will not be able to go while it is open for maybe 3 or 4 weeks and...
  18. Sold
    No worries, it was a very low offer as I live so close to caravan, mainly asked in case you just wanted rid as these had been on sale for a while. I bought some shiny new ones in the interim. Best of luck selling them! They are beautiful things.
  19. Coffee Beans
    Foundry Rocko Mountain would also be a good point of Yirgacheffe comparison. Think that might be the one. I'm quite happy to find things that I may not like, learn as much from what you don't like as what you do.
  20. Coffee Beans
    I'm currently drinking a coffee compass natural yirgacheffe, maybe it's the bean I'm unsure of rather than the processing. I might try the foundry rocko mountain. The number of beans available is very exciting but a bit daunting to a newby! You guys are amazing help as usual.
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