I have the Breville Bambino and a Breville Smart Grinder, super easy experience like yours. I don’t have the auto frother (that’s on the Plus) but I just drink regular espresso, and it has prepared my kid for their inevitable college barista job.
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A lot of detail here on how one of the best coffee estates in the world handles processing:
Forgot to point out that his brother sells Elida from a totally unassuming website that I backed into from a Google search. At first I thought the site might be fake due to the web design and impossibly low prices. Nope, can confirm that it’s real and hits as hard as expected. Shipping was about $8 for three pounds. Hard to imagine there’s a better deal out there.
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I often say that one of the things that makes hiring so hard is that you never get feedback on the candidates that you pass on. Of course there are exceptions to every rule.
Who is Jack? Did he end up becoming the GOAT barista or something?
I’m guessing he was arrested for placing a pinhole camera in the bathroom.
Here’s an LA Times profile of jack from a couple of months ago (non paywall link):
https://archive.ph/GFE6O
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I’m so fucking tired of all the shitty items on amazon, I just want to get real, lab-grade borosilicate stirring rods and there are like 900 different brands on amazon that all have madeup gobbledygook names and I’m 90% sure they’re all full of lead and probably just regular soda glass.
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Thanks. I didn’t realize that it was that guy.
come on, are yall fucking kidding me? gtfo
goddamn it, what the fuck with the instagram links???
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs0eGtfLCf9/
The Elida is one of those ultra fast draining coffees that’s hard to fuck up. Even when grinding to nearly espresso fine the water just goes right through it. Not sure I understand what’s happening but hard insoluble coffees always seem to be great. The tiny portion bag trend was really tiring me out always having to work to solve bags and then start over so it’s nice to have several pounds of a known quantity.
Scale issues: I got the myweigh barista discussed extensively upthread, it has been great but lately I think it’s acting weird. Like, it seems to get “stuck” a lot, e.g. I’m weighing beans out and I get to 14.9g and I add one more tiny bean and it doesn’t move so I add one more and suddenly it’s at 15.3.
Or, I tare it out, start adding beans, get to 14.9, pick up the bin and shake it and set it back on the scale and it reads 15.1.
my favorite, I grind the beans, I have 15.0g of grinds. set up my v60 and server on the scale, tare it out, dump the grinds in and the scale reads 14.7.
I ordered a 2000g calibration weight and I’ll run the calibration and see if that helps but I feel like I’m going to be shopping for a new scale soon.
Do people actually do this??? Aeropress into a glass server? Just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
Reminds me that I haven’t used my aeropress in ages
pvn I also got that myweigh barista when it came up itt. It was one of my favorite scales ever (except for how any nudge stopped the timer), but mine started going haywire six months in. They sent me a new one; the return process was annoying but I can’t remember why. Then the replacement broke right away. Didn’t want to deal with the company again (or actually I think they stopped offering that model?) but got two more baristas on ebay and both were fucked right out of the box. I’m not super finicky about scales so ended up just grabbing a TIMEMORE scale which is just one of those second-rate Black Pearl copycats. It’s fine, it’s a B-minus, but I could spill a big gulp on it with no worries which is really the main thing I need out of a scale
Buy a Nanopresso and throw the AeroPress in the trash.
That’s weird, I haven’t really had any major issues. The “drifting” is really common in higher precision scales due to external factors like air currents, temperature, humidity, static, unlevel surfaces, etc. If you look around coffee forums, there are people reporting these types of issues with basically every make of scale including the Acaias.
Some of those claims are rather surprising, but it does seem like scales are really finicky and susceptible to dumb shit being slightly off, and it may be stuff you’d never think of. Check out this thread:
