Making a Latte on my Rancilio Silvia

Making a latte at home on my Silvia. I have installed an Auber PID kit which has given me much better control over temperature.
When the shot is pouring in the video there is still a bit of steam in the boiler head which you can see in the first five seconds of the pour, this is not normally there - just concentrating on making the video and not purging the steam off the head of the boiler before pouring the shot.
Any questions, feel free to ask. Hope this helps someone out there!

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Howto & Style

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• coffee
• silvia
• rancilio
• espresso
• latte
• rocky
• grinder

[aussiecammo]

Hi, and thanks for your comment. I stretch the milk up to 100F and then simply heat up to 140F. I find that I get about a 10F 'run-on' so that puts my end milk temp at about 150F or just under. We love that temp.

[pedepy]

is that porn in the background ?

[chilipepperslooney]

A message to the uploader, are you watching porn, or has somebody in your house got a hostage?

[rikzz0r]

@dsee2 your grinder is the problem then. Maybe some tamping techniques, temperature surfing etc, but a good grind should get at least a decent espresso no matter what.

[gpmahon]

i hate coffee snobs



[chilipepperslooney]

@dsee2 If you are Tamping down to 30LB just keep adjusting your grind until you have between 22 and 32 seconds of extration before it starts pouring blonde, then you know you have your grind right. you can then if you wish fine tune it so you get a 25 second shot, just make sure that it is not pouring blonde by the end and there you go, the secrets of the 'God Shot!'. Make sure your beans are really fresh aswell, old beans = crappy espresso. Enjoy my friend

[YouDonteverhavetodie]

Perfect video. But the backgroundsound...why??

[Jamz006]

If you find that fine grinds are still watery the grinder may not be up to scratch. Also, how do you tamp your ground beans?

[Jamz006]

@dsee2 The crema is down to the freshness of the beans and the grind. I am fortunate enough to have a roastery around the corner from my flat so I get the freshest of the fresh and you can achieve great crema from even the shittiest espresso machine. The crema is worse if the beans are a couple of weeks old - an interesting test I made a while ago. If your shots are watery that is either due to grind which is too course or not consistent enough. The better the grinder the better the consistency

[CameronLairdPhoto]

@dsee2 Try some of the info at coffeesnobs. Do a search for KG100 - The KG100 might not be up to the challenge without modification..

[dsee2]

I am grinding myself on a DeLonghi KG100. I have tried it on each level of grind and even fine grinds are watery...

The beans are about three weeks old, bought from a highly reputable cafe in Melbourne....