My 1st perfect Espresso Shot

Making my 1st perfect espresso shot with good crema. Grinder is a Iberital Challenge.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Breville
• BES820
• Solis
• Espresso
• Master
• Gastroback
• 42610
• Morphy
• Richards
• 47507
• strainer
• Iberital
• Challenge
• coffee
• lucafe
• fausto
• roasted
• beans

[anudude]

hey man. nice setup. i'm thinking of getting this grinder. Can you tell me how its wrking for you? thks

[hakaider]

The Iberital Challenge grinder i can really recommend to everyone. Its a great value for your bucks.

[simonboliver]

Dude, you violated the golden rule! didnt calibrate your amount, your tamp, your timing... but still pulled a beatiful shot... too bad the espresso police are in here to be dissin on you...

[Brahmanfire]

LOL the espresso Police is right! K dude, nice attempt, you're on your way to espresso nirvana. But first, look into dosing, distribution, leveling and tamping techniques. Next, BUY A REAL TAMPER, a decent tamp will cost $30 or so.

The shot 'looked' decent as far as crema and color, but the extraction was very gaseous. This may involve grind, tamp and/or espresso age, too fresh and it extracts and tastes horrible.

Good work, keep it up, and keep learning the Art of espresso preparation. :)

[yoavperry]

The shot is very heavy on the crema, especially considering you didn't tamp it and you lifted the cup all the way to the portafilter spout (why?). I wonder if this is a pressurized head that just makes extra crema. Typically I would grind slightly coarser but give it a good tamp. You will get much more flavor out of the shot, a nice amount of crema and it would be neither sour nor bitter - just sweet. Where did you get this setup?

[ZeroXAgony]

You claim a perfect shot of espresso, then you add sugar?

What...???

[FinesseAndFury]

The shot looked alright, slightly over-extracted (and by slightly i mean a lot). To the average person though it would taste great. leveling the grounds by tapping down, the repeated tampings are things that connoisseurs (not me by any stretch) would have problems with

[princessash1510]

Barista would attempt to dose without some form of measurement, no matter how experienced

Lastly, your beans are too gaseous, try letting them age for a few more days.

[princessash1510]

@hakaider

What boiler system does this machine use?

I have little experience with low quality home machines but my initial assumption was that it has a cheap hx rather than a dual boiler. The only other system I can think of is lowering the temp of the one boiler so that there is no need for a hx, but what effect would this have on the steam wand?

Also, did you really free dose without measuring or did the doserless grinder stop it? I am a fan of doserless grinders although no reputable baris

[dolofonos]

You people go on about the correct way to make an espresso, but do you Water-Pik or brush your teeth without paste and then have a light salt-water rinse followed by a fresh-water rinse before taking your espresso? No, I guessed the half of you didn't. My point being that if your mouth tastes like shit then it doesn't matter how good you are at making an espresso. Hell, if half of you bastards live in the slovenly cat-infested apartments I suspect then what's even the point in a perfect cup?

[aaaapaapt]

when you are grinding, try tapping the portafilter down several times to compact the grind and stop it from overflowing

[extralongmatches2]

that looks sexual, i love making coffee!! but i can't drink it haha caffeine hurts my heart

[rtrxggg]

looks pretty good huge creme i wish i could get that to come out of my machine

[waynekennard]

Cos it was a 40 sec extraction..18 -25 sec tops for good extraction.

Grind was too fine.