i don't want complicated stuff ...... just home personal use, so i should use double or single basket for simple shot as i do ?
thanks

how often do we need to backflush the oscar?

If you say so...
Some say it's 25-35sec extraction others 15 sec with same grind size. Many just state stop the extraction mid way.
U get higher concentration per liquid vol no doubt but if one choose to stop the extraction mid way then one can extract some from the remaining grounds.

Whatever it is so long your pocket can withstand the damage so it. If you care about global resources, world hunger etc.... Tough luck

Great point I completely forgotten about the crema
U go by weight not vol? Amount of crema changes as beans age.
Need to read up Google

Yup, hence the more reason you need to go with weight
I was just giving a basic reference but what I experience is that the volume may appear "more" when beans are younger (more crema) and "less" when older for the same yield weight
So the old-school way of using ml can really throw you off as the bean ages

i do a water backflush almost every day.

A proper backflush with white powder about 50 shots once.

Lebistrocoffee
The roaste date quite recent & rm38/500g include delivery. I received it today. The cheapest fresh bean so far

Aeon big farmhouse promo buy twin get single free...

And so I tried one of the recommendation from here: Beanshipper.com.
Free a pack of sample beans Tried with my hario skerton grinder, was good!
Getting more and more addicted to fresh coffee....
Wanna try ymeng85's beans too! Mind share the buying thread?

Thanks!

there goes Ymeng's coffee thread

Hi, I m still beginner to the coffee,
can i ask and see how long does the ground coffee beans can last in order to maintain the freshness ?
and will the coffee quality get affected by the china made coffee grinder machine comparatively to those branded brand one?

Fresh beans best use it up in 2 weeks else it will not become stale!! no matter what storage u use!! best buy in small quantity (250~300g)!

No comment on china made grinder! as I'm just using the ROK grinder also china made (But with QC i suppose)! cheap and good!

This post has been edited by Dan430: May 2 2016, 05:09 PM

Ground beans lasts 10-15 mins.

skitZo`

Based on your wonderful video I have once again endeavoured to depressurize my Poemia. Bringing down the grind size to visually similar to your video, I have managed to *finally* pull a shot taking longer than 20 sec (about 22 sec) to get 45 ml with a decent *REAL* crema!!! Woo hoo!

HOWEVER ..... I have to admit... don't like the taste!! It tastes strong (expected), bitter (a disappointment) and muddy (a nasty surprise).

I tried increasing the grind size today and compensating by increasing the coffee to 16gm; now the extraction took only 13 sec, crema was low (still there though) and the muddiness was much less... still more bitter than the pressurized shot.

Any pointers?

The PID temperature controller experiment has been put on hold as the unit I got is not according to spec (no alarm function) so I'm returning it. Will share once a decent unit is received.

That is sadly true

Exception however is if you could very quickly seal it up in a vacuum/container and you may get a chance at 24hrs perhaps?

Thanks for the shoutout bro
Website coming real soon too!

Greeting coffee ppl, Need to ask had anyone preform descale on the Oscar Simonelli before ? Mind share how you do it ? Recently i just brought Oscar Simonelli for second hand from previous owner but it seem he only doing the group head cleaning only but not descale.

This post has been edited by d33pbluez: May 3 2016, 08:51 AM

I guess it'll help...but don't think it'll be fast enough...someone with vacuum jar can experiment...

PS to riku...we're talking espresso grind...coarse grind for French press will last a bit longer...few hours... On China made grinders, the two super jolly knock off looks OK...nothing else...

This post has been edited by dwRK: May 3 2016, 10:35 AM

anyone eyeing the oscar II?

what is the price over this ?