What you need to know about pressure to make the best-tasting espresso In a commercial context, Espresso is all about making coffee fast—30 seconds per cup, compared to 4 minutes for filter coffee. That’s a big difference when you have 30 people waiting for service. It’s all achieved by pressure-speeding-up extraction. When scaling your pressure […]
Espresso Basket Size One of the most important things to achieve in making great-tasting espresso is using the full range of ratios (1:1 – 1:4), and to accomplish this, you will have to use the full range of doses (14g-25g). Yield = dose * ratio If you have a light roast coffee that requires a
What is Espresso Ratio The term ratio refers to how much ground coffee you use, also known as the ‘dose’, to how much the weight of the coffee you make, known as the ‘yield’. For example, using an 18g dose, stopping the shot at 36g yield produces a dose:yield ratio of 1:2. If you have
5.0 from 1 vote Only logged in users can rate recipes If you are looking for one espresso recipe to be the best espresso recipe, you have already gone wrong. You need different espresso recipes for different roast levels. If you under-extract coffee, it is sour. If you over-extract coffee it is bitter. Getting your
5.0 from 1 vote Only logged in users can rate recipes Too Bitter? use a lower recipe number to extract less Too Sour? use a higher recipe number to extract more Choosing the ultimate espresso recipe isn’t a one-size-fits-all situation. Embrace the diversity of espresso by exploring a range of recipes tailored to different roast
