Gurus.net: How to Use a La Pavoni Manual Lever-Piston Espresso Machine by Daniel Ho - How to... (#)

  „Warm up the cup and filter by running some heated water through an empty filter into the cup and discarding.  Fill and tamp the filter.  Then, wipe any stray grains of coffee off the top of the filter before placing it under the group head and tightening. When the proper temperature is achieved, raise the handle to the "up" position.  Count 10 seconds to allow water to fill the brewing chamber and pre-infusing the coffee before pulling down on the handle.  Likely, by this point, there is some rich dark espresso dripping into your demitasse and covering the bottom.  Although I didn't expect it, the pressure required to pull the handle down is quite hard.  I haven't measured this yet, but it feels almost as hard as the pressure required for tamping.   Don't force the handle down, but rather press down with CONSTANT heavy pressure.  The espresso should be thick and start flowing straight down in a heavy stream from the spout and you should see crema forming.  The whole process from start to finish should take around 20-30 seconds. A variation on this is to partly lift the handle (but not to the top, or you'll have water flooding your work area!) BEFORE putting your filter in.“

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Gurus.net: How to Use a La Pavoni Manual Lever-Piston Espresso Machine by Daniel Ho - Introduction

  „However, there IS a problem.   Although the result of a perfectly pulled shot is pure heaven--a badly pulled shot is undrinkable drek!Despite carefully going through the plethora of material currently available on the Web, and my espresso books, I just couldn’t make drinkable espresso with my La Pavoni.  Being a geek, once something like this gets a hold of you, you just can’t think about anything else let alone giving up!Embarrassingly, it took me almost a solid week of spare time thinking about espresso, making a mess in the kitchen (my wife is VERY happy about this...), making people crazy with my incessant e-mail questions, buying a new espresso grinder, and about 5 pounds of various beans to work out how to make good espresso with my La Pavoni.  This site is the distillation of my efforts.  You will have to practice, but hopefully this will make your learning curve less formidable.If you find this helpful, feel free to send me beans worthy of the magic machine or any other coffee paraphernalia to support my caffeine habit.  For those of you feeling even more generous, you may wish to donate to my retirement fund.  With all the time wasted on playing with the machine and working up this site, I have a LOT of income to make up...people have always suspected it, but now they have proof that I've finally lost it!Anyway, here is my story…NEXT...>“

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  „Make sure you stay away from auto tampers. They may give you consistent pressure, but the tamp is horrible. There is no real way to tap the wand and knock the espresso off the sides, let alone get a nice polished head on the espresso.“

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Espresso Tamping (INeedCoffee.com)

  „The shape of the pellet has already been formed, and the finishing tamp confirms this impression. With the tamper held as before, press on the pellet with exactly thirty pounds of pressure. It is useful to tamp on a bathroom scale until you become comfortable with the amount of force necessary to achieve the appropriate pressure. After tamping turn the tamper 720° to polish the surface.“

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  „With a slight twisting motion, firmly press the tamper to pack and level the coffee grind in the filter handle. Wipe the rim of the filter handle from coffee grinds to maintain a proper seal during extraction. Lock the filter handle into the group head.“

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