The Espresso Pages from Sweet Maria's: Espresso, a Definition and General (#)

  „You need a machine capable of delivering water that is not too hot nor too cold, at the correct amount of pressure through a cake of good coffee that is finely, evenly ground and compressed. Steam-powered machines, like the ubiquitous Krups department store models from the '80s and early '90s are not going to cut it. You will need a pump or piston driven espresso machine. At one time that meant buying a hand-pull piston machine , which are still beautiful objects and can still make great espresso!“

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  „There are look-alike hand grinders that are cheaper but don't grind consistently enough to deliver good results in an espresso machine. Check Sweet Maria's at http://sweetmarias.com “

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Espresso Extraction

  „Level the grounds in the basket by pulling them forward and then pushing them to the opposite side until the whole basket is evenly filled.“

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Espresso Tutorial Chapter 5 - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada

  „This espresso coffee has been packed into the portafilter in such a way as to create pressure that restricts the flow of water through the coffee. The pressure is created because the coffee is finely ground and the water is not free to flow quickly through the coffee. This is where I reintroduce the term BAR pressure. In order for hot water to be pushed through the ground coffee, the pump has to be able to generate serious pressure to overcome the resistance created by the packed coffee.“

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The Espresso Pages from Sweet Maria's: Espresso: Specific Techniques

  „There's a lot of ways to achieve great espresso. Its fun to experiment and I don't know if there is some terminal point where you achieve the perfect trans-subjective espresso. These recommendations reflect my biases, of course.“

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Tiny Joy, a home coffee roasting newsletter from Sweet Maria's Coffee

  „We sent out some mistaken Malabar Gold Espresso Blend on several dates, and we want to replace any coffee we sent that was wrong! We have sent email to all people who bought Malabar Gold early this year, so everyone who bought any in 2001 who is affected has been contacted. But there are a few people who purchased it around 11/10 -11/20/00 that we don’t have email records for …so if you have or remember getting some odd-looking Malabar Gold in late ‘00, please look at this web page: www.sweetmarias.com/malabar.gold.html “

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