I got an interview at a café later this week when I have legit never made anything but drip coffee. I figured I needed to know a lot more beforehand so I started a KZread binge, I’m learning that coffee and espresso is a whole WORLD of terms and tips and I’m really excited to jump into things.

Wow! Now, this is what I call a great video. Short, to the point, and with lots of info. I've had my espresso machine for almost four years now and never realized the small little things I was doing wrong. Thanks for the tips!!!

@abz124816

2 жыл бұрын

Now that you are doing things the right way, do you perceive a markedly improved taste?

Fantastic! You have just solved my issues with my morning coffee - so simple. Thank you.

Thanks, very very helpful. I'm about to use my FIRST machine for my FIRST ATTEMPT ! WEE

@ThatGadgetMatt

3 жыл бұрын

So how’d it go?

@timcoulter7691

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

I'm still fishing around for consistent pulls, and videos like this really help us, less experienced, badristas.

Thank you so much. I am a barista w/ 5 years experience yet I still have much to learn. I always tapped to make sure my grounds were even before tamping. But I just got myself the Breville Barista pro soooo I want to make the most of it and hopefully be getting a new job as a barista as well.

@abz124816

2 жыл бұрын

I did not know that making coffee/espresso is so demanding? As far as finding a barista job. Put in 10 applications every day all around town. EVERY DAY!

This video just letting me know that no matter the topic in life, theres somebody who knows things I didn't even think could possibly exist on the subject. Me stumbling in here not knowing espresso has an ENTIRE DICTIONARY of terminology. I feel like I just saw proof aliens exist. Anyhoo, just bought my first machine and now I'm scared lol! Ahhhh

@SugomA22

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry your machine will do all Steps

@Phoenix-et9bk

2 жыл бұрын

Good to see you're on the proper part of the Dunning Kruger effect curve. Me too.

@AndyRock1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Phoenix-et9bk help I can't come back... It's like I'm locked in another dimension watching it all unfold now 😂

@lint6333

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@karlaf.64

9 ай бұрын

Same!! I stumbled across espresso videos and immediately bought a cheap one on Amazon and hoping for the best lol

Fine grinds, keep your machine clean, and you’ll be on your way to espresso shot addiction

Fantastic video! Great content and very instructive

Learning how to make espresso for myself. So little videos like this help me get from beginner to awesome. So I can just feel all nice and spoiled

Well.... I wanna say thanks! These three tips just saved me a lot of frustration! I'd finally decided to abandon Aldi Pod coffee (for the waste, not the taste... I actually love the pod I ended up with) and bought a simple Delonghi machine... It's been hit n miss and I was starting to think I'd made a mistake.... After simply paying more attention from these tips, the shot was much much better! Now I just need to find the right beans I like and get me a grinder to get the grind I want... Thanks :)

"AbolishThePolish" Me, a Polish person: "I don't like where this is going."

@Sprometheus

3 жыл бұрын

Dawid Bednorz all about the context

@hotshots149

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sprometheus I think he was joking.

@diodoruscronus

3 жыл бұрын

Its un unnecessary wank

@eduardopalmerin9520

3 жыл бұрын

Laughed hard at that one

@ericscott1895

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he got you all pucked up bro!

I am a newbie to espresso. This is so helpful.

Woo woo well great work !

Well done, clear and concise. I get it!

Thinking about it, the minute evening of the top milimeter of grounds that polishing might accomplishing is not going to do anything to affect your shot positively. This is like people who tap the portafilter after tamping to dislodge a few stray grounds on the wall of the portafilter. Those grounds weren't hurting anything, but you may have just unseated your coffee bed.

Thanks for the tips. Many of the things we would overlook.

Thankyou so much for the video ❤️

My first espresso machine is coming in today and thank you 🙏🏻 I learned a few things.

Great tips , thanks!

Helpful video. Thanks for sharing.

Yes! Love this.

Really helpful thanks

Cool Muzak! I am now enlightened as to the intricacies of the “puck”☕️

@ismaeljabran5756

2 жыл бұрын

No

@living4adrenaline

2 жыл бұрын

@@ismaeljabran5756 yes

Great video!

wow, right off the bat....the left side/right thing happens to me all the time and I never quite new why! I actually thought maybe my machine was little wonky, thanks!

Well explained. Thanks

Awesome!

Thank you. ☕️🤎

thanks for sharing, this video made me subscribed.

Hi, good vid. One way to prove the uneven tamp is to then repeat the higher density on the other side of the portafilter. If it switched sides, then it does make a difference. If it doesn't, then probably a tilt somewhere.

@ultima199g

Жыл бұрын

Or use a bottomless portafilter and watch the flow.

@brandony8691

Жыл бұрын

@@ultima199g 100%. The only reliable way to know without getting expensive gadgetry is to use a bottomless portafilter and watch as you pull a shot.

@kevinb2014

Жыл бұрын

@@brandony8691 Agree. I'm surprised he demonstrated that with a double-spouted portafilter rather than a bottomless one. I only use a bottomless filter so I can always see if I've messed up and can correct immediately.

Great tips ☕️

Thank you sir i have learn alot

me: doesn't own a machine, doesn't make coffee, doesn't drink coffee also me: watches how to make 'better' coffee ☠☠☠

@SorryIAteYourCookiesSanta

Жыл бұрын

And that's how you got your new machine lol

@notascorsese

2 ай бұрын

You and I should split weekly therapy sessions

thanks mate!

Thanks for sharing

Oh shit! I found your channel! Great work man!

@Sprometheus

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks! Small world!

Good point! Thx.

I just pulled a shot this morning and got an unseated puck. I do polish, from the videos i see on youtube. Thanks for the tips - i learn a lot from this channel

@Sprometheus

5 жыл бұрын

Nicole Policarpio thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words and you watching!

@augmach5

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sprometheus oo

Excellent

Good tips are much appreciated from this beginner.

Thanks!

Ty very much

Liked and already subscribed (notifications on). Thanks.

Have ever done a blind test to see if there are real perceptible differences in flavor doing things the wrong way vs. the right way?

@gustavodugarte4297

Жыл бұрын

esoteric differences

@Boneless_Chuck

Жыл бұрын

Great question! This is probably one of those things where it's all about knowing the correct terminology in front of your friends and arguing technique, etc. Sort of like how wine experts can't tell which is "better" a 12 dollar bottle or a $350 bottle.

Good video. I've recently purchased a Sage Barista Express, and have taken the dive into making the best coffee I can. :) I've got just one minor complaint about the video. I believe you are right, when you state that tamping an uneven spread of grinded beans, will cause one side of the puck to be packed more tightly, thus making it harder for the water to come through on that side of the puck. But when you try to illustrate this by visualizing the coffee running faster out in one side than the other... I seriously doubt that can be the case. Your coffee clearly runs to a hole in the middle of the filter, then proceeds down into one channel, before it is split in two. There is absolutely no way the coffee coming from one side of the puck is going to stay in the same side all the way down the hole, through the single channel and then out the same side it came in.

@MichaelNJ853

4 жыл бұрын

Are you absolutely sure? In other words, there is no way that the density mixed with air and gravity can cause this separation at the junction point?

@steenb.m.4409

4 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelNJ853 Fairly sure. Look at how liquids behave. Take out your filter, and pour some water into one side, and watch the flow. The water will not stay in the same side, no matter how onesided you make your pour. If your coffee is only coming out one side, it is more likely that your filter is ever so slightly tilted.

@proactivex

2 жыл бұрын

ZING POW. what you said is all true. what does that do to this video?!! might be some religious like hocus pocus belief mixed in with these good tips.

Yhanks for sharing

Excelente vídeo! Pena que não temos tanto tempo para a feitura do expresso!

@MisterRhul

7 ай бұрын

Nada disso demora nem acrescenta tempo nas mãos de uma pessoa treinada.

Excellent tips. Thax u

@Sprometheus

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@thomasdeitz9383

3 жыл бұрын

Zsdxssedww

Wonderful 🔝🙌☕

A couple of observations. First, you are using a spouted portafilter. There is no left side or right side. Either your machine is not level of you have bent the spouts in some way. Second, leveling is important but your approach to it is even more important. When talking about polishing, you semi-leveled your grounds before you used your leveler. This is a good and important tip. A slow approach with the leveler is needed in order to not pack the coffee bed with the leveler wings. Same reason we teach not to pack the bed with your fingers before tamping. If you simply press the grounds down with the leveler then twist, it is essentially doing the same as packing with your fingers or hand. Slow approach is best. Third, the polishing should be done after a pressure tamp - no pressure polish. If you tamp and twist at the same time you could get some bed movement, but I believe the moment the hot water hits the bed, the pre-wetting will expand the grounds thus sealing up any edge gaps that might be present - and you simply have a tamper that is old and damaged and needs to be replaced. Smooth surface, free of dings, chips, or scars. Lastly, a smooth approach of the portafilter to the group is the best advise you given; spot on in my opinion! All common sense. Thanks!

@anthonypaynter828

2 жыл бұрын

You're wrong Chris, if your coffee is not put in evenly, it comes out of the spouts at different rates, as shown in the video. It has nothing to do with the machine being on an uneven surface.

@dmackle3849

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonypaynter828 you guys are arguing about how fluid goes down a drain hole. It’s accumulated in the handle then split again at the double spout. How it exits the common path will be affected by how it enters, so flow at the individual basket holes will influence. But the demonstration in the video is vastly oversimplified for general purpose advice beyond a specific handle. Any channeling could create or neutralise the effects at the spout. A naked would’ve been a far better demonstration of the fault. But aggregate and then divide is a coarse assessment of a system with too many variables. And it could easily be an uneven machine or an asymmetric handle. We will need 20 sample splits all weighed to the microgram!

@tomaskruger4671

2 жыл бұрын

They are all designed to share the coffee evenly between two cups right? This model does so better than the simplest ones by the extra T-junction before the slopes. Hence Chris is correct why a bottomless holder would have made this otherwise good presentation even better. :)

A good demonstration of common mistakes. Following each improper technique with the correct one would’ve been appreciated, though…

I just quit polishing after upgrading to a 58.4mm tamper as it doesn't feel necessary, the last tip is great as well.

I always have coffee grinds on the group-head after pulling a shot... Maybe I'm overfilling or not tamping firmly enough. It could be also that my espresso machine isn't very high-end (starting out with a Cassabrews 20-bar machine). Amazing video BTW!

I’m also Barista and this video it’s so helpful for me I really need more to learn to plan open new cafe. Thanks a million x

Thanks man, great content as always

@Sprometheus

5 жыл бұрын

Kamichi Kora thank you for watching my friend!

Nice Now im aware of my mistakes 😅

I seen a good tip. Put your grounds inna glass jar first and shake then to make the chunks disburse and fluff up the grounds. Then transfer to portafikter

Hm, your point with uneven extraction when no distribution of grounds is done before tamping is right of course. But I highly doubt you can see the difference on the spouts of the portafilter. You’d need to use a naked one. Because an uneven flow at the spouts correlates with a slightly tilted machine, but not determines what’s happening at the bottom of the basket.

@johnyfirpo

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. This was my first thought watching this video. Otherwise, thanks The Real Sprometheus for the tips, they are definitely useful!

@empt60

2 жыл бұрын

I am definitely seeing the difference on the spouts with uneven distribution. Happens quite often cause I just bought my first machine and I'm a complete beginner, but can confirm from experience that its very much a real occurence.

@whyilovethemoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@empt60 of course you can see the flow rate and if it’s rapidly changing. But you won’t be able to tell on which side a channel might have or not formed only by looking at the spouts and the distribution from espresso.

@ylleKkcirtaPnadnerB

2 жыл бұрын

@@whyilovethemoon depends on the outlet and spout design. If it collects, runs forwards, then splits, it will remain balanced. But if the shot runs straight across a gently tapered bottom and drops straight down a large central hole into the spouts, it will be sensitive to lopsided pucks. Many commercial or high end handles use the offset spouts to even up the split shots, but with a central spout it's less forgiving. The spout in the video looks to offer fairly open paths, so I don't doubt it's real, but it could be more pronounced in some handles, less in others

@sjorsdw

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same

Thanks

Hi P! Also, what kind of grinder does your machine have? I heard bur grinders aren't the best, but what is and are there any professional home machines that do it any other way? How do you like yours?

I just bought my first machine the Chefmate 6 in 1 for only $144 and LOVE IT. Believe it or not, it does the job, works and is built very well. It pays for itself in a single month of Starbucks! 😎

All, this is the coolest and detailed video with references by far, nothing compares to this. Keep the fire going.

@Sprometheus

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much my friend!

Do the portafilters go bad? My 2 cup filter will not pass coffee any longer while the 1 cup filter does. There any method to clean these filters? Do they lift up under pressure, I have only been rinsing them after use for past year then 1 filter stopped passing the coffee...

Did you do an Espro french press review? Would love a comparison with Fellow.

Thanks.

❤ thanks

Very self-explanatory thanks so much for sharing

hello,thanks your video helped me and what do you think adout-force tamper 58.5mm thanks

Tamper?what is it good for?if you want even ,flat puck ,just use leveler is adjustable and that is perfectly enough,my experience .cheers

Six vids tried only u emerged victorious .

What kind of coffee do you more commonly use? Also, what's your favourite?

@Sprometheus

5 жыл бұрын

I've rarely used the same coffee twice to be honest. I try to mix it up regularly and try new things. Some of my all-time favorites have been Sweetheart by Olympia Coffee Roasters, Blacksmith Espresso from Quills, Full Spectrum from Kickapoo Coffee, and nearly any single origin offering from Dapper & Wise. But there are so many great roasters out there, I'd recommend trying as many as possible.

@tacoladd8282

4 жыл бұрын

i only drink coffee that was grown by unpaid child workers. the really good batches have children ground up in them.

@s.gruber6841

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO took the words right out of my mouth!!!

The first one about distributing the grounds before tamping may or may not be true, but the fact that the coffee is coming out of one wing of the portafilter more than the other is not evidence. The coffee all goes through the same hole and just falls randomly to one side or the other. You can see it in this very video!

This is great. My only question would be around how to do #2 mistake correctly (sorry, I'm a total newb).

what is cramer, another name for coffee? also I have seen quite a few vids on coffee making but none of them explain what the different filters do or which filter to use with each coffee process

Only place I have seen portafilter handling called out. How many times we see, or hear, someone banging the portafilter into the grouphead in their video. Of course, that will disturb the puck. Good call, thank you!

I am working on a La San Marco coffee machine which has a 54 mm portafilter. I wonder how much the diameter of the basket affects the taste of the espresso. Does espresso from larger baskets taste better? Why do some Italian companies use 58.3 mm baskets and others 54 mm? Could you do a short chapter on this?

@carlose6010

10 ай бұрын

Im assuming pressure and speed of water come into play. Irl probably no real difference. Seems some machines let you play with variables.. perhaps more of a hobby than functioning side of pro coffee 😝

sick

What kind of tamper do you use in this video?

It does not matter about where else I work for in the past. no one else dares to say as I am a poor barista, never heard in my life since I worked for many companies

may i ask if what should do if the water didnt come out?thank yoy

Hi. Where can I get the gold tamper from?

I’m curious, does the spinning tamp work better then hand tamping?

Lol. Where I do agree you can tamp unevenly, when it all comes out the same orifice then is split left and right after coming out, it is impossible to say because there is less pouring on the right, that it is because of the tamp.

@Snudedude

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I thought this video was a joke when I saw that.

Thank you, can you make a comparison between IMS / VST / pullman portafilter basket ,please 🙏

@Sprometheus

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a good one. Been thinking about the basket program lately. I’ll add that to my list.

How can flow from one end of portafilter outlet more than from second one, when they are divided from one central hole on the bottom of portafilter? 🙂

I came across one of your shorts and it lead me to subscribe.. awesome tips and tricks of the trade but I HAVE to know what camera you use..

@Sprometheus

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by and the sub. This video was filmed in a Canon T5i and my newer videos are now recorded in a Canon EOS R6.

@tjtebbs9221

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sprometheus cheers

Hahaaa... You said "Puck" more than anyone in a YEAR of NHL. :D Thanks for the video.

I don't get your picture of the uneven shot. I get it how the left side of the spout is running more freely than the right. However, what does not make sense is that since both the left and the right spouts are fed by the same orifice it would seem to me that real issue here would be that the portafilter is either slightly off level or perhaps that there is an imperfection on the right side of the spout.

@kbs8586

2 жыл бұрын

It probably means the water isn’t distributed properly across the grind and you don’t get all the “flavor” (I’m not a barista) from the grind.

@ross4

2 жыл бұрын

I was also confused about that. It's not like espresso from the left side of the basket goes into the left spout. The only way to actually see that uneven extraction or channeling would be a bottomless portafilter.

@annaeeee7516

Жыл бұрын

From what I could get from his explanation, since there is more coffee on one side, the coffee will be more densely packed on the right side and the water will have a harder time pushing through that side. The bigger amount of coffee is creating more resistance on the right side because there is less space in between each little coffee grind.

well now i understand why one side is flowing faster than the other....👍 thank you

@Sprometheus

5 жыл бұрын

40 FK happy to help!

@barrymore87

5 жыл бұрын

Same this has been driving me mad for weeks.

@danguee1

5 жыл бұрын

What even though it all feeds through a central spout before splitting? That doesn't make sense at all....

@barrymore87

5 жыл бұрын

danguee1 central spout would still have water coming in from left and right hand sides I guess. I don’t really know to be honest but tried this and it fixed my problem straight away.

@julian9769

5 жыл бұрын

Coffee is distributed from one spout which splits into two....the guy doesn't know what he's talking about!

Spro - the title of this one could be "Don't Play With Your Puck" ;)

I recently purchased a Flair Pro 2 and I was wondering what size of coffee distribution tool to purchase for it...thanks

@user-mn9ph3wl7n

3 жыл бұрын

45.5mm for the Pro2. 40mm for the signature/classic.

I have a manual coffee machine. It was a bit trial and error at first, getting the quantity for coffee and water. I really do need a better machine 😂

I like coffee but man, this is serious. Who knew it comes down to such fine details.

@gime8148

3 жыл бұрын

It really does matter

@gime8148

3 жыл бұрын

Its like an art

Abolish the polish. That's good. It's hard to resist with a combo leveler/tamper device since they spin so readily. I also find myself doing it in case there are some grounds on the metal.

how dare I saying that, huh>? because I joined in the coffee industries for 10 years but I really luck when I started at first step due to the person who teaches me he is a genuine barista and we really cray love drinking coffee and we put passion there,. as two of us has been perceived for many specialty coffees in SYD and customers recommended me as a high class, you make good coffee

@SugomA22

3 жыл бұрын

Can you teach me...

Is there Spirit level for professional coffie machines ? .. because its seems that it have a lot of effect on the shot

Can you do a video to remedy all these things please in detail

I have a portafilter that is sometimes difficult to turn into the lock position of the machine. I have checked to make sure there is no debris or other obstruction but still have trouble. Is there some sort of natural oil or some sort of safe lubricant I can use? Thanks!

@kellymcguinness1

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not any expert but I think this may be due to too much coffee in your portafilter, there needs to be a gap between the coffee and top of the portafilter after you tamp

Use a jack leveler with level portafilter