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Making espresso

adrian522 · 2011-06-09 19:10:17

Hi, So I fianlly got a working silvia and have been playing around with it for a few days. The shots have been quite good but I have a few questions for the very knowledgeable people that frequent this forum. Firstly the grind, how fine should I grind the beans? Here I'm assuming that I grind as fine as the machine will…

09-06-2011 7:10pm

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adrian522

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Hi,

So I fianlly got a working silvia and have been playing around with it for a few days.

The shots have been quite good but I have a few questions for the very knowledgeable people that frequent this forum.

Firstly the grind, how fine should I grind the beans?

Here I'm assuming that I grind as fine as the machine will allow without choking?

Second how much ground coffee should go into the basket? I've read that this should be 7g for a single and 14g for a double, is this correct?

Next is leveling and tamping, how much pressure to tamp, any advice here would be greatly appreciated.

Finally I've read that the espresso should take from 23-18 seconds to extract, is this correct also?

Are there any other tips or pitfalls I need to avoid??

Cheers!!

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