So my shop, the first shop i've ever worked at, uses the Victoria Arduino Adonis+ espresso machine. It's a Cadillac, really- chrome and pearl, extra tall, three-head, push-button everything. The only thing i'd like to change about it is that honestly i feel like it does too much work and i do too little.
My question, though, is this: i've been reading up on Eapresso 101 guidelines, and they all say that the water in your boiler should never be higher than 200 degrees and that your pressure should be around 9 atmospheres. The Adonis is quite remarkably different- as far as i understand it, the boiler temperature is at 250 and the pressure is at 1.2 BAR, which is about the same in atmospheres. Im mostly just looking for someone with a wider frame of reference than myself; i've only ever worked on this machine, so i dont know any of the differences between this and whatever else is out there. Does anyone know if this could possibly be proper? The manual says that by all means, it's set up perfectly, but it goes against everything else i've read on the matter.
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