A Short Guide To Making Espresso
This short guide is just intended to get you started. There are several excellent books in our products section that go into far more detail! Always use good quality roasted coffee beans that are as fresh as possible, and a good burr grinder (rather than a blade grinder) that has a good range of adjustments.
Fill the larger (double shot) filter basket without tapping the handle or pressing the ground coffee down. Level off the loose ground coffee by sliding a straight finger (or something similar such as a knife blade) back and forth across the top edge of the filter basket filling any gaps in the ground coffee and brushing off any excess (this should give you approximately 14 to 17 grams of ground coffee in the filter basket). Read the rest of this entry »
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