Its friday, and the summer weather has dropped by again for a day or two, so its a very welcome 30C or thereabouts which saw us end the working week in a swimming pool. blue skies and bright sunshine are…
For the record I am a proud New Zealander, living in London since 1998. So don’t for a minute think that Londinium I is being built in England by some old duffer with a cloth cap, sick with nostalgia from…
to set a new global benchmark in exceptional espresso at home, in bars, in restaurants, and any environment where a single group machine is sufficient to meet demand no plumbing or wiring needed – just plug in and fill with…
Whilst I detest the phrase ‘scratch your own itch’ as coined in ‘Rework‘, one of the most useful business books I have ever read, it is a sound principle to adopt when developing new products. It simply means that Londinium…
all technical issues resolved – i.e the espresso tastes great the focus has now switched to external design/cosmetics very easy to lose weeks of time fussing over details focus on getting the base model to market for sept hope to…
Before Londinium I, our spring lever espresso machine, arrives we thought it was a good time to give the factory a bit of an Olympic spruce up. July-August is the window of opportunity in our business as things slacken off…
One of the drivers for offering our own machine and having it made in England is we want to be able to offer world class customer service. How? We intend to have all the parts that can break or wear…
a quick diagram to illustrate that a lot of the ‘extra bits’ that appear in the E61 diagram are not required with the lever, specifically a non-return valve on the feed out of the boiler into the thermosiphon is not…
Our primary objective when deciding what kind of lever espresso machine we needed to build was; one that was easy for anyone who is already making espresso to use. i.e. anyone who is already grinding beans, dosing, tamping. While we…
A thermosiphon gives you a lower water inlet temperature entering the group, compensated for by a higher group temperature at idle throughout the group. Assuming it is correctly engineered, this should give you a more even group temperature, reducing the…