Hello all... This has been bugging me for a while, because I hate to serve a watered-down drink: We serve a huge variety of hot teas, arranged on shelves in jars for the customers to bring to the counter for us to prepare. When a customer brings a te
Read more…Question for the techies... Does the performance of a pressure-stat change as it ages? Will it respond more slowly or less accurately than a new one? What is the amount of variation in boiler pressure (between element cycles) that you'd expect to se
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Buying a lightly used with modified steam wand used for demonstrations. The quality of these I have a couple times tested, though those too were used. It pulls great shots, but I'm wondering if it will hold up in the long run? A
Hello, all! At my cafe we currently employ the brew-it-strong-cut-it-with-ice method of preparing iced coffee, which I find pretty distasteful. Happily, i've been given the go-ahead by the owner to implement a cold brewed iced coffee. I plan to use a
Read more…Hello, Just wondering if anyone uses a manual press for tamping instead of a hand held tamper and if it actually creates a consistant overall tamp?
Read more…Ok we have a Rancilio Epoca machine, I backflush it everyday but my question is we have two head machine, do I have to backflush each side or does bacflushing one side clean both?? I am careful about flushing the head out with hot water and cleanng i
Read more…Does anyone else strongly dislike the red line that appears under the word Barista. I almost find it ironic that being part of a coffee community like Barista- Exchange, that my spell check always highlights the word Barista... I could not even count
Read more…Hi, I have a coffee shop that is part of a franchise. I have been trying to sell it for a year and half with no luck. Corporate has helped steer a few interested parties our way. I am now trying to sell it on my own. I have listed it here before and
Read more…I'm looking for a good quality grinder for my home Nuova Simonelli Oscar. I don't do a lot of volume so am not really looking for a commercial caliber unit. If I am not drinking an espresso drink, I make a press pot so would like a machine that can h
Read more…Ok, need to get some opinions here...let us use a loose leaf chai latte as an example Do you steam milk + steeped tea +leaves together and strain into cup or steep tea, strain into cup and pour steamed milk into tea? any reason why you do one over
Read more…In his blog Shawn Steiman’s suggests that “All the origins contained in a [coffee] bag should be listed, at the very least, in decreasing order of percentage…” Shawn’s suggestion is nothing short of a revolution in the way coffee blends have been so
Read more…Great coffee in the Biggest Little City!
Serving french pressed coffee roasted here in Reno by The Hub. Also featuring a "traditional" espresso based drink menu, with tasty espresso a la Ecco Caffe, Barefoot Coffee Works, Intelligentsia Coffee, an
Read more…Okay, okay, I know... perking equals bad. BUT! (you knew there had to be a self-righteously indignant "but" in there, right? Good.) But... I found a vintage glass silex stovetop percolator for a whole buck! Science experiment for a buck- wouldn't you
Read more…So I'm working next week in So Cal and will be in LA and San Diego for a couple of days. Besides the usual suspects (Intilli, La Mill, Elan) do you know of any other good cafes in those areas I should stop and check out. If you happen to work in one
Read more…I've been a home roaster for years now, often bringing my home roasted beans into the cafe and offering them up to customers. I worked in a roasting facility for a while and got a great understanding of everything from green to roasting to packaging
Read more…Hi guys What's your opinion on toddy coffee. Is it a good base for cold coffee drinks and more important how can you make it. Greets Djaya
Read more…Hello everyone, I love this site. I'm in the business planning stage of opening my coffee shop and would love to chat with someone in the NE region of the US. I'm from the West Coast and things are a little different here in Syracuse, NY. Seems like
Read more…Someone sent me some info on a latte art competition with a huuuuuuge payout. I accidently erased the email. Does anyone happen to have info on this? Thanks in advance!!!
Read more…(PORTLAND, OR. July 9, 2009) The George Howell Coffee Company, a leading provider of specialty coffees based near Boston, will demonstrate their brewing control solution, ExtractMoJo™ at the American Barista & Coffee School at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, J
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