Making a Morning Cappuccino on a La Pavoni Europiccola
Good morning folks. After over a year of owning my awesome La Pavoni Europiccola espresso machine, I am happy to make my first demonstration of it. Certainly when I watch this I will realize better ways to shoot it to make the demonstration better and more self explanatory. In that case I will happily replace this video. (And yes, I am in my pajamas. What of it?) I bought my machine from Christopher at Thomas Cara, Ltd. in San Francisco. He’s a good dude and really pulled out the stops when I came by to make my purchase. But I warn you, he can be difficult if you’re not on your best behavior. Just buy it online somewhere if your spirit is weak. In any case, I’m using 14 grams of Sightglass’s Owl’s Howl espresso beans ground in an Ascaso I-Mini Conical dedicated coffee bean Burr Grinder. The reason I call it dedicated is because adjusting anything beyond subtle adjustments is a ridiculous endeavor as you need to crank the knob so many times that by the time you get to a French press grind, for example, you come down with a severe case of carpal tunnel. I only use it for espresso grinds. I think I need to rebuild it as when I’ve been grinding beans for the last 3 months or so, it blocks up and sometimes stops. That’s a disaster in the middle of the process as you gotta dump out the beans, grounds and beans get everywhere, you lose some of the 14 grams, you get anxious, and etc. I only paid about 0. for it so I am not sure if I could expect any better performance or not …
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The noise would wake me up in the morning so decaf is fine. Very cute machine – reminds me of a Fiat 500. Can you do a video about how to make a heart shape in the cream?
You should be leaving your basket locked in the portafilter to heat through. Everything should equally warm otherwise the coffee will cool as it passes through the basket.
Ground finer. You look like you tamping the living Sh&^ out it! lol. Oh and don’t tap the basket with metal this is just fracturing the puck, which causes chanelling which maybe lead you to tamping with the whole of your weight lol.