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Beautiful espresso cups: Ann Demeulemeester pour Serax
https://www.terresdecafe.com/fr/la-vaisselle/1030-lot-de-deux-tasses-a-expresso-en-porcelaine-8-cl.html
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Pellico's coffee
Silvio Pellico Mijn gevangenissen / My PrisonsDutch translation (below the English) by Yond Boeke and Patty KroneSometimes, by giving my dinner to one of the secondini, making him believe that I had...
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Fellow Corvo EKG - fun smart small water heater
Bought this little black water kettle at a big online store. The confirmation email said it could be a week before delivery but the very next day a young man was at my door for delivery! Wouter Brunia...
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Jan came over from Friesland and brought along a VFD drive which also emulates three phase power so the fan has more power. Before, we used a large capacitor to provide a 'third phase push'.
View ArticleG-IOTA & LR24
A simple procedure to make oneself a single dosed cup of coffee, using the G-IOTA grinder and the LONDINIUM R24 espresso machine.This G-IOTA needs to be set very fine, a little below the "zero" point...
View ArticleSlappe Bak
A friend tells me she does not like espresso so much, preferring a weaker brew which is in Dutch a 'slappe bak' so I use the ETZmax to grind Brazilian beans, the LONDINIUM LR24 to extract an espresso...
View ArticleCircle cutter coffee
Bob vG sent me a circle cutter and coffee filters so I could try adding a filter to my espresso extraction. Using the same (natural processed) Brazilian beans, the filtered extraction is mild and...
View ArticleLR24 Thermistor upgrade
Tije de Jong performs the upgrade from pressostat to thermistor controlling the boiler temp/pressure in the LONDINIUM LR24 machine. No 'clicking' of the big pressostat anymore ;-)As of now all LR24...
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Taking out the light beans
After each roast I manually check the beans, not only for stones but also to take out any 'odd' beans that I spot. That's mostly the beans that remained rather light, yellowish. It's assumed that these...
View ArticleTilted XL grinder
Eureka has a tilted version of their XL grinder and here I tried the same with a hockey puck under the back of the grinder. It looks good to me. It’s possible that it has ‘zero retention’ now but I did...
View ArticleMypressi Twist pressure gauge
Tije added a pressure gauge (purchased from https://www.vintage-espresso-machines.nl/) to a Mypressi Twist espresso maker so we can monitor the extraction pressure.
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Sugar Lemon Coffee
This morning my friend Arthur from the Russian MiniMix supermarket (formerly CCCP Amsterdam) here in town told me how he likes to cover a slice of lemon with equal parts ground coffee and sugar to eat...
View ArticleDoes MSG enhance espresso?
Jan visited me and he brought a bag of fine MSG which is used in many kitchens to enhance the taste of food.Would this work in espresso as well, Jan wondered so we set out to try with 0.3g of MSG in...
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Pics of my first LONDINIUM L1-Luxe
A friend who bought my first LONDINIUM some years ago is passing it on to another close coffee pal and I looked uo my old photos of that dear machine:
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