Finally got around to buying a tripod mount for my phone
This should leave me with no excuse for putting some very rudimentary videos up on this blog. By popular demand one of the first clips will have to be a ‘how to use an Olympia Cremina’
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For the love of lever espresso
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Indian plantation A, Sarathy Estate
This coffee, a relatively recent addition to our green bean stash, is winning consistent praise from our customers.
Enjoy Londinium espresso however far from London you might be. Place your order now.
Its not sales hyperbole, it’s real, and here’s the proof from the Fedex website; Collected in London by Fedex at noon on Friday (midnight in New Zealand), delivered to the customer at 9:20am on Monday morning. If you’re in New…
Game changer! Bezzera Strega
Every now and again a product comes along that changes the market dramatically. We’ve been looking for a domestic sized spring lever machine, but with a full commercial group & it hasn’t existed. Until now. Enter the Bezzera Strega, selling…
MA-ter pressure stats will be here in a week or so
These seemed way too hard to come by so we’ve decided to stock them. Not only do they appear in the Cremina but also the ubiquitous La Pavoni and others. Ours have been specified to run in the range 0.5-1.5…
Everpure Claris water filter-softener compared with reverse osmosis processes
The minerals in tap water can be both a friend and a foe to baristas. For specialty coffee, a certain amount of hardness is necessary for a pleasant flavor of the water and proper extraction of the coffee bean and…
Cleaning the inside of the sight glass on an Olympia Cremina lever espresso machine
If the sight glass on your Olympia Cremina has become unsightly, with specks of dirt, grit, and other contaminants appearing then one day it will probably annoy you enough to start thinking, I wonder how I go about doing that…
Correct usage of Bacchi: please read if you have a Bacchi
If you don’t put water (about 30mL) in the base you can expect the base to warp – that is why the Bacchi ships with the yellow paper ribbon threaded through between the base and the cylinder assembly to alert…
Why does espresso from a lever espresso machine taste better?
This question is often asked and the response that is often offered up is ‘the water is not being pulsed through the coffee from a vibratory pump’. This response is quite correctly flagged as being inadequate, as it doesn’t stack…
Bacchi base design No.3 appears
If you were mean-spirited your response to this could be, ‘what on earth are CaffeMotive playing at?’, but that isn’t our view. Caffemotive, the manufacturers of the Bacchi get our full support for acknowledging a weakness in an otherwise exceptionally…