Espresso Enthusiasts

[Scepticalscribe]

Bad weather generates lots of positive ions.

Pouring, lashing rain, it is bucketing down, chucking it down......

And I am currently enjoying, sipping, savouring, a mug of my rapidly diminishing coffee from El Salvador.

Time to prepare another coffee.

These can create an invisible vortex to other dimensions,

Diminishing coffee beans, yes,.......

such as the unused coffee bean dimension and the single, other sock dimension.

Ah, yes, the other sock dimension.

Another thing that the late, great, Douglas Adams got absolutely right.

Not to mention the lost key dimension.

Shudders with horror just reading this sentence......

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I am now sipping a second mug of coffee on this wet, overcast, dreary afternoon: A Gesha from Guatemala, served with organic hot milk.

 

[svenmany]

I'm warming up Silvia and myself for a second cup.

I'm very pleased with my wand repair - no dribbles at all since I did it.

The picture I posted above is from a pretty good series, Cardinal, on Hulu. What prompted me to post the picture, other than a chance at a funny Dear Abby post, was the surprise of seeing a V1/V2 Silvia in use. You can tell its version from the steam knob, which is the same one mine has. An earlier point in the video seemed to show a V2 portafilter.

My Silvia seems to have a mix of V1/V2 characteristics, from what I've seen online. Espresso Parts identified it as a V1 from its manufacturing date. It has a V2 wand and brand label. It has V1 portafilter and drip tray. Maybe it was manufactured when they were transitioning models.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I have found that coffee tastes much more coffee-ish if you remember to put the ESE coffee pod in the portafilter before you press the button...

 

[mtbdudex]

Ordered 4 kilos of various Lavazza beans.
Longed for lighter and cleaner only Arabica espresso now.
So that what I went for.

I love the Mexican beans, and have a few kilos left, plus some intense Lavazza beans also.

Shifting between beans are good, to keep the tastebuds healthy.

Like you and others here I bounce around the “bean merry-go-round”, for variety and keeping tastes fresh.
I really like the Lavazza Crema E Aroma Whole Bean recently, seems to hit that taste spot .

 

[Lioness~]

I found the bag to the right in my cupboard, so once the machine is screaming to be fed it goes in 1st.
The other 3 I bought now. Another package comes soon too. I’m also hunting for some more 😉