I'm interested in what Forum members think of this machine. I know very little about Lelit's other products. It appears that the Bianca may be available in some markets now and in the U.S. perhaps in July. The price quoted by 1st Line is pretty competitive with other double boiler machines.
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Could be. I really hope I don't have to pack this heavy thing back up and ship it back to BB.
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Just did another flush. Particles are still present.
Not sure how useful this information is, but I can move some of the little black particles around with a magnet...
I got the idea from the home-barista.com thread I mentioned, as someone there noticed that he could do the same, so I tried it on my own particles.
Not all of them, but some seem to jump right out of the water when I hold a rare earth magnet close to the bowl I dispense the water into.
Not sure how useful this information is, but I can move some of the little black particles around with a magnet...
I got the idea from the home-barista.com thread I mentioned, as someone there noticed that he could do the same, so I tried it on my own particles.
Not all of them, but some seem to jump right out of the water when I hold a rare earth magnet close to the bowl I dispense the water into.
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I'm fairly sure that almost all of the people who had issues with their Biancas were using TWW or something similar.
Could be coincidence.
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@Cuprajake - any reason you use potassium over sodium bicarbonate? What's your recipe?
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Its the dr pavlis recipe.
App his thinking was theres enough good stuff in coffee that the water shouldn't add to it, the potassium bicarbonate is enough to trigger fill sensors
To make up the concentrate add 10 grams of potassium bicarbonate to one liter of distilled water
To make up the espresso water just add 40 grams of concentrate to a 4 liter bottle.
App his thinking was theres enough good stuff in coffee that the water shouldn't add to it, the potassium bicarbonate is enough to trigger fill sensors
To make up the concentrate add 10 grams of potassium bicarbonate to one liter of distilled water
To make up the espresso water just add 40 grams of concentrate to a 4 liter bottle.
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@Cuprajake - cool cool. I just googled it. It's the same concentration I'm using, 100mg/L, but I'm using with sodium bicarbonate.
I was curious if you had tried both and found a difference in taste. 👍
I was curious if you had tried both and found a difference in taste. 👍
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It will be useful to understand if they also make a difference in scaling in boilers especially if one were to steam milk, say 2-3 times a day. Thx
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Boy, I've been way off base I guess. I've been using .5g/L (500mg) of potassium bicarbonate but the water seems to taste fine and I like my espresso.
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The bicarbonate can still scale, in simple terms, if we were to steam milk 2-3 times a day. Rob advises that we need to monitor it by drawing the water from the steam boiler, letting it cool at the room temperature and measure the hardness to identify the level it can reaching the scaling stage. We know the idea of this is flush the steam boiler water out on a regular basis. I know there is more complexity to this than my understanding. 😊
So, what happens if we were to use potassium bicarbonate instead of sodium bicarbonate? Thx
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My understanding is that it doesn't scale. Yes, it will increase the concentration as it will precipitate. Thus flushing the service boiler every so often is beneficial. But it doesn't stick to the boiler or pipes, nor causes blockages.
From this point on this is way out of my depth so I shall leave the debate to the cognoscenti. 😉👍
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