re: Espresso machine

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A pretty thorough review just dropped on YouTube yesterday. Consensus is: it’s a really good machine at the price, the preinfusion kind of sucks and isn’t really preinfusion, build quality is OK, seems built to last but only time will tell, needs an OPV, has potential for flow control but will need some after-market modding.

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This is my take after doing research as well. Not sure why they wouldn’t have put an OPV on it. Build quality seems to be much better than some of the others in that price range. Pre infusion seems pretty worthless but that seems like a software issue. I think a couple of inexpensive mods could make this thing a workhorse.

Same. Got mine all setup, just not looking for espresso in the evenings and don’t have time to dial in shots in the morning. Hoping to mess with it this weekend.

The rare Orleans Parish W

Would y'all take a turin legato over a Breville Infuser?

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Of course you won’t put tap water in the machine. There is so much scale stuff in our water that I use distilled water with Third Wave minerals added. I also have a couple of home mineralization formulas that i have used. But I’ve fought scale for years with the pool and I don’t want that in the machine.

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Yeah, wasn’t planning on using tap water. I just can’t clean anything and I’d like to get the China off of it before I fire up some shots.

We use filtered water from the fridge which is really good. Today was not the day to do that. Ice maker turned off.

Glad we left town

Joe at Espresso Outlet dropped some news today on the Home Espresso FB group. Announced they are bringing over the Gemilai 3200D (I assume will be branded as the upgrade Legato). It’s a dual boiler machine. He didn’t announce pricing but I’d guess $800 to $1,000.

Also announced the DF54 grinder. Identical to the DF64v2 except 54mm flat burrs. Smaller profile as well. He said pricing around $229 which is awesome.

Their products aren’t perfect but it’s sure hard to beat the value of Turin.

Maybe a more consistent grind. Also, larger burr = larger machine = larger motor turning lower RPM = more consistent and better grinds. That’s why the 64mm+ flat burr grinders cost so much more.

Stepless 54mm flat burr is just a really good starting point for people looking to get into home espresso. Especially for $30 more than a Baratza Encore ESP.

Any suggestions on a scale, wdt tool, cups and tamper? Made a shot this morning and my food scale was too long to fit on the drip tray. My cups are all too big as well.