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?

It is hard to really get custom item in Malaysia.... more or so on coffee machine parts (Exclude those tool kits like milk pitcher & tamper) unless u know some vendor that provide them or sell only specifically gaggia item (Mostly they will tell you they will import in also and price wont be that nice since they only import specifically to your order and not by batch). I try to ask a few shops and they seem to only entertain those big commercial coffee machine rather then homemade machine as they saw no profit in doing business so I turn my order to online in direct imported in the parts but there is a hassle/ catch as the item might get delay or block by our custom like what happen to me now....

I'm making some mod on my machine and order couple of part in from Canada and my item got stop by the custom. They required further more detail info on the item before they decided to release them.... that is still yet uncertain if they want to release the item or further charge for it as im waiting for the news....
Why pre ground your coffee .... that is kind of just taboo method for coffee drinkers. Your coffee will get stale very quick within 1 week (If you kept in in the air tight container) and your coffee will end like all other local coffee shop 'kopi O' while fresh roasted coffee bean will sustain 2-3 week after it been roasted out before stale.

Tried Singapore before, and they don sell the part there also that why i end up import the part far from what i expected. last time i try to import my PID from US and it seem there is no problem getting through....

Dont worry about the milk it wont separate so fast after you had froth (Unless you frothing technic is not good enough). All you need to do is to swirl the milk in the pitcher. I seen many videos do that (Froth, clean and purge wand and continue to swirl the pitcher) and they still have cooperated micro foam pour from their pitcher. A little bit dirty is ok, you can come back to clean it later unless you dont do maintenance on your machine all the time (e.g dissamble to group head, steam wand and do cleaning, blackflush, descale). I think having semi auto machine, it is common practice already.
Yup, but better version of that .... i think a way to cover the previous hole with some rubber cap or something soft

Another custom item for the oscar came in....



A replacement of the shower screen for the Oscar.

Currently I'm stuck with the Steam Wand Level mod as the buyer just email me that they cant ship the petrol gel into malaysia for some reason.

Anyone had any idea where can i get those food safe petrol gel used for food machine ?

Verdict: Taste the coffee still same not much had change but i'm getting even flow of the coffee coming out of the portafilter through the spout consistent with level of the coffee puck check before brewing (original sometimes you get one side first then follow another side). The shower screen now are easily to clean and when i remove the shower screen to check. There is literally little or no coffee residue stuck on the brass plate above the shower screen.

Overall the impact is minimal but not a necessary a MUST have mod to have for the oscar unless your shower screen is leaking or broken.

Anyone visit Easy Brew in penang? What u guys think about their fresh roasted bean?

Beans roasted on the spot. The beans roasted for me is packed in small packages, 21 gram each. Surprised me.
I bought 100gm X 5 each origin to try. Received multiple small packages. Dont need to worry about keeping the beans stored fresh.

Machine on fully strip down for descale and mod project begins

Not going to drip, I had another machine on the standby.

Reminder always wear safety glove when it comes to project like this. It took a small chuck of my meat from me when i try to open some of the brass connection material. They basically put loctite everywhere and it makes it hard to open those brass connection pipe. Open those connection brass material is going to take time and you are going to need a lot of energy to loosen them. a good set of wrenches and a mallet is greatly needed in this project and never buy those small adjustable wrenches just because you want to save cost, they never really works well and time consuming just to adjust up and down to fit the size nut.

Update progress over my Mod.



Getting wet dream on level mod at Nuova Simonelli Oscar already ? 
Word of advice of the day, Never hammer the gentle Oscar when dissamble for one should only caress the machine to open up for you,  Overall summary Hammer = you might break alot of things... Lesson learn....

Hi guys, im having Nuava Simonelli Oscar 2 for sale . Please pm me for pricing and details.. very lmited units available thanks

Received my Mazzer super jolly today. Taobao item RM1880 include shipment fees. Love it

I am not suggesting you got a fake.
I am just more willing to go uk route for a peace of mind.
Then again broke me is still looking a hg one lol

I have ppl in PRC but these ppl will tell me go uk route. They can find cheap roomba locally but still get me to buy and ship them to have peace of mind.

nice stuff you got there.... I still waiting for baratza sette to release  .... one thing i notice though....anything that go through foreign normal pos then uses pos malaysia will not be charge with GST or custom tax (Well mostly as per my imported experiment done so far with item brought from italian company elektros vs us company espressoparts ) Those forwarder that uses FedEX, DHL and those big name company will kena GST and custom tax.... but that is all to change because i saw the banner that pos malaysia will also imposes tax soon (around this year).... so if you want to get anything better be fast....

So glad... Got a Breville Duo Temp Pro Coffee Machine for RM1100 from Harvey Norman clearance sales ^^ plus RM230 for additional 4 years warranty.

Cant wait to brew some coffee!

Now I'm missing grinders... Any recommendation?
Is this grinder good?
http://www.senheng.com.my/coffee-machine/1...lkcg4012ss.html

Actually plan to get BES870 version but too bad, BES870 is non-promo item...

woo... ain't cheap these stuff... for entry level, any grinder?
Or I shud go straight for Super Jolly or Baratza instead? Feeling it's bit overkill at the moment if going straight for such grinder.

interesting project
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/produc...monster=popular

nice table

Look promising but don get fool by just the few developer talk.... i suspecting it might be good only for drip and press but not espresso...

Well I am trying to pull the graph on coffee freshness vs time. Even you don't use it to grind, can use to monitor beans freshness!

And this is coffee thread, press or drip don't give coffee lover the coffee joy?

while waiting for my retention valve kit..... i  did some machining customization on the front plate to fit in the lever on the old hole since im pushing the pipe in....

Yeah, i know it is a sloppy job .... the hole look like sh@t and uneven .... you know how hard is it to cut through this high quality stainless steel plates....

not yet as the machine is still in the state of 90% complete, I still have one more replacement part comes in which just reach my hand and also i need to solve some minor leak problem