PennyRoyal

u/PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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on Espresso time! · c/coffee · 3 pts · 1d

I have a small kitchen, and a flair, so mine lives in a small cupboard with all its attendant accoutrements. It’s very quick to get out and put away though, there’s almost no extra steps to keeping it like that

I love it. I’ve not used a Robot, but I did a lot of nerding out about the choices before I bought this one, and it really works well. Having the pressure gauge and the long lever allows a good bit of accuracy, and if you get a second basket you can make shots back-to-back pretty fast if you keep the kettle simmering. It’s quite a big bit of kit, but I have a cupboard that it goes in nicely, and looks fantastic through the glass so it doesn’t eat my whole worktop.

It’s definitely more work than a normal machine, but if you want something that does pre-infusion and all that, it’d cost way more than I could afford, so this is a good compromise between price and capability

I think that anything from public image repositories, or from somewhere like Pixelfed/Flickr that is put up with a CC license would be OK. I’ve never got a good photo like that, as I use a Flair espresso machine - being manual it’s a bit too involved to be snapping photos mid-pour, I don’t have the dexterity or extra arm necessary!

Yeah, that’s not worked for me either, it just micromanages my current hyper-fixation in great detail and depth. It’s a two-wolves situation, with impulsivity and in-depth nerdery