All my research in home, manual espresso machines leads me to believe the Robot to the best of the lot. Not expensive but still a little too dear for my overextended wallet. Maybe some day though.
Ir's all fine and dandy when the ambient temperature is around 28-30 C....No need to worry about heat sink effect then. But what if the ambient temperature, like in my case today, is only 20,5 C???? Will that not translate into a significant temperature drop of the brewed espresso? In such a scenario, will it not be safer to add one more step to the workflow and simply preflush the filter (and the piston at the same time) with boiling water from the kettle??? What do you say Cafelat???? Otherwise, I must say I'm impressed with the Cafelat Robot idea and I plan to get one in the near future....
Sure. The beauty of any coffee maker is you can use it as simply or as complicated as you wish. If you keep it simple you can make a real espresso in as long as it takes to boil a kettle. If you want to quickly pre-heat the items before hand go right ahead. There is no right or wrong way - apart from not filling the basket full up with water, many people make the mistake to underfill the basket with an exact weight of water and get into issues. I tend to always favour keeping everything as simple as possible, but if someone wants to add extra steps more power to them. At the end of the day do what feels right for you and always go by taste.
@@Cafelat Thnx for your kind answer. Obviously, I'm not about to push my ideas here only to ask about the role of this one variable, i.e. ambient temperature. I very much agree to keep things as simple as possible. And I will certainly start exactly as you have shown - without pre-heating portafilter. If it works here in Poland, where the ambient temperature is always much lower than in Hong Kong, then I will be happy to let you know how things stand. That will be another winning point for your amazing invention.
My "solution" is to just (carefully) pour a small amount (100-200gr or so) of boiling water over the exterior of the bottom half of the outer filter for a few seconds. This gets it to over 50C pretty quickly. No need to submerge it in boiling water. This also keeps the inside dry while you assemble and makes no mess. The inner part gets to nearly 95C once you put the water in, so you're just trying to bring the two closer, not boil the parts. I haven't used a temperature probe, but I'd guess that this results in 3-5C higher results for a few seconds more work. Same as pulling a shot of water, but far less messy. This doesn't have to be exact - just enough water to make it hot to the touch.
Best recipe is 20g coffee, 60 grams water. Gives you exactly 1:2 and you don't have to worry about getting rid of excess water or measuring how much come out before stopping extraction.
Vintage Omega Dynamic. Very nice. I have the same with the same dial. I’m addicted to coffee and the Dynamic.
Great watch!
Seems there’s always sirens in the background... you get a lot of caffeine ODs in your neighborhood?😂😂😂
All my research in home, manual espresso machines leads me to believe the Robot to the best of the lot. Not expensive but still a little too dear for my overextended wallet. Maybe some day though.
Where can i buy these water boiler?
Ir's all fine and dandy when the ambient temperature is around 28-30 C....No need to worry about heat sink effect then. But what if the ambient temperature, like in my case today, is only 20,5 C???? Will that not translate into a significant temperature drop of the brewed espresso? In such a scenario, will it not be safer to add one more step to the workflow and simply preflush the filter (and the piston at the same time) with boiling water from the kettle???
What do you say Cafelat????
Otherwise, I must say I'm impressed with the Cafelat Robot idea and I plan to get one in the near future....
Sure. The beauty of any coffee maker is you can use it as simply or as complicated as you wish. If you keep it simple you can make a real espresso in as long as it takes to boil a kettle. If you want to quickly pre-heat the items before hand go right ahead. There is no right or wrong way - apart from not filling the basket full up with water, many people make the mistake to underfill the basket with an exact weight of water and get into issues.
I tend to always favour keeping everything as simple as possible, but if someone wants to add extra steps more power to them. At the end of the day do what feels right for you and always go by taste.
@@Cafelat Thnx for your kind answer. Obviously, I'm not about to push my ideas here only to ask about the role of this one variable, i.e. ambient temperature. I very much agree to keep things as simple as possible. And I will certainly start exactly as you have shown - without pre-heating portafilter. If it works here in Poland, where the ambient temperature is always much lower than in Hong Kong, then I will be happy to let you know how things stand. That will be another winning point for your amazing invention.
My "solution" is to just (carefully) pour a small amount (100-200gr or so) of boiling water over the exterior of the bottom half of the outer filter for a few seconds. This gets it to over 50C pretty quickly. No need to submerge it in boiling water. This also keeps the inside dry while you assemble and makes no mess. The inner part gets to nearly 95C once you put the water in, so you're just trying to bring the two closer, not boil the parts.
I haven't used a temperature probe, but I'd guess that this results in 3-5C higher results for a few seconds more work. Same as pulling a shot of water, but far less messy. This doesn't have to be exact - just enough water to make it hot to the touch.
Best recipe is 20g coffee, 60 grams water. Gives you exactly 1:2 and you don't have to worry about getting rid of excess water or measuring how much come out before stopping extraction.
60 grams water will be lower temperature. How does it compare to full volume water (1cm below lip)?
Is it a type K thermocouple?
Yes
@tesla Robots are blue too 👽😘😘😘😘 @bostondynamics