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Boardwalk :: Forum List Espresso in General Entry level < 400 dollars!
Keating
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 New Saeco Aroma too cold? - 2007/02/03 13:02 Just bought a new Saeco Aroma.
Had bought my wife a Krups XP4030 for her birthday, and it died in less than a month. Did some research and selected the Aroma as the replacement.

So I get it home and make a few lattes and cappucinos, after ditching the panarello attachment....
They all taste relatively decent.

I make an espresso and try it and dang, it's sour.
so I start investigating. I've primed it, let the thing warm up for an hour, run a cup of water through the steamer wand (steam valve open, brew switch on) a cup through the grouphead with the PF attached, repeat, each time waiting for the "not ready" light to go out, ensuring the boiler is up to temp.....

then I stick my milk foaming thermometer in my frothing jug and run hot water onto it, out of the steam wand (brew switch on, steam valve open).
If I direct the stream of water directly onto the last 2" of the thermometer, (the sensing part) it will jump up to 180 degrees untill about .5 - 1.0 oz of water has come out, then drops to about 140 fairly quickly, then slowly continues to drop as the thermometer is submerged in the blending water by now.

I'm figuring this is the cause of the sour shots.

From what I've read, the brew t-stat is fixed temp, no? ANy way to adjust it? Is there anything I'm missing about getting it up to proper 195-ish temp?

any advice?

Paul
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Re:New Saeco Aroma too cold? - 2007/02/03 19:14 The t-stats are not adjustable -

return the unit for another sample. Colin is the Senior editor and creator of the CoffeeCrew.Com Website
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