Siliconslave's how to make espresso thread

How apt this thread is back at the top.

GOt some Brazil Cachoeira Canario today, ordered Espresso grind, but looks like I got beans!

Perhaps it's God's way of telling me to stop being a cheapskate and get a grinder!

Can anyone quickly suggest one I should get? One of the Zassenhaus models maybe?

I haven't opened the beans yet... should I whack the bag straight in the freezer?

I have a Gaggia classic.

Thanks
 
Bes said:
Can anyone quickly suggest one I should get? One of the Zassenhaus models maybe?
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I had the Krups Burr grinder which was ok (and not a proper burr grinder) until I got a Zassenhaus for Christmas. So much better and more satisfying grinding the beans manually :).
 
depends how much you want to spend...

<£50 the Zassenhaus seem the best option - you can get older ones cheap on auction sites sometimes, but they are manual

~£60 the Dualit / starbucks one is the best option

~£100 the IC2 from Happy Donkey is very good

over £200 you can start looking at the mazzer mini second hand...
 
Siliconslave said:
depends how much you want to spend...

<£50 the Zassenhaus seem the best option - you can get older ones cheap on auction sites sometimes, but they are manual

~£60 the Dualit / starbucks one is the best option

~£100 the IC2 from Happy Donkey is very good

over £200 you can start looking at the mazzer mini second hand...
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I had been looking at the doserless Rocky, but now I've finally decided to bite the bullet the prices have gone up quite a lot. It was £185ish at hasbean (who no longer do it) and I can get it now for £235. Fifty quid is a lot, so I was wondering whether to

1) try for a 2nd hand Mazzer
2) hold my breath and blame myself for not taking advantage of the exchange rate last year and get Rocky
3) get something else around the £150-185 mark.

Do you know how the Ibertal MC2 compares with the Rocky? I'd be very tempted to go for that, given the price
 
domino said:
I had been looking at the doserless Rocky, but now I've finally decided to bite the bullet the prices have gone up quite a lot. It was £185ish at hasbean (who no longer do it) and I can get it now for £235. Fifty quid is a lot, so I was wondering whether to

1) try for a 2nd hand Mazzer
2) hold my breath and blame myself for not taking advantage of the exchange rate last year and get Rocky
3) get something else around the £150-185 mark.

Do you know how the Ibertal MC2 compares with the Rocky? I'd be very tempted to go for that, given the price
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Email Steve at Hasbean, he is honest ! even when the answer means he loses a sale.
 
I have been watching this thread for ages and I eventually decided to go out and get some coffee equipment - no more instant/pre-ground for me!

I don't have much cash so I only ended up with a cheap Emide Burr Grinder and 3-cup Elia Cafetiere, I also got 100g of Australian Skybury and Pumphreys Special. I'm currently drinking a nice mug of Skybury and I must say it's much better than any other coffee I have had at home :)

Craig
 
domino said:
I had been looking at the doserless Rocky, but now I've finally decided to bite the bullet the prices have gone up quite a lot. It was £185ish at hasbean (who no longer do it) and I can get it now for £235. Fifty quid is a lot, so I was wondering whether to

1) try for a 2nd hand Mazzer
2) hold my breath and blame myself for not taking advantage of the exchange rate last year and get Rocky
3) get something else around the £150-185 mark.

Do you know how the Ibertal MC2 compares with the Rocky? I'd be very tempted to go for that, given the price
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Well you get what you pay for, but for a home user MC2 Auto really is pretty damn good, assuming you keep the blades in good nick then you cannot really go wrong mate. Seriously, You'd be a million times better of saving yourself £100 odd quid or however much and buying lots of nice coffee with it! (Or put it towards a machine if you don't have one!)

Got loads of second hand MC2 Autos at work if anyone is interested.
 
domino said:
Domestic Gaggias have aluminium boilers, so you need to be careful what descaler you use. Citric acid descalers can rot the boiler. (which is partly why I got the Silvia - brass boiler)
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So does anyone know where you can get a Rancillo Silvia in this country for a decent price?

Any place I see wants a hell of a lot of money for what is, put simply, a boiler in a nice case.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Email Steve at Hasbean, he is honest ! even when the answer means he loses a sale.
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Quoted for truth.

I have an order from HasBean go missing in the post and it was replaced rapidly with no fuss, even though there was a chance the error may have been mine (which I did tell him).

Some of the best customer service I have ever had over the web.
 
Kona* said:
I have been watching this thread for ages and I eventually decided to go out and get some coffee equipment - no more instant/pre-ground for me!

I don't have much cash so I only ended up with a cheap Emide Burr Grinder and 3-cup Elia Cafetiere, I also got 100g of Australian Skybury and Pumphreys Special. I'm currently drinking a nice mug of Skybury and I must say it's much better than any other coffee I have had at home :)

Craig
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Bingo - it's about the coffee... not the equipment!
 
my little set-up - I have little money,so the Krups must do it for me,eheheh
but my big problem is that I do not have a company like Hasbeans here,so I have to use normal coffee beans


 
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