We have 7 guests online





Lost Password?
No account yet? Register

Whole Latte Love!

EspressoTec.Com


Baratza Inc.

Baratza.com - Creators of the Virtuoso!

Transcend Coffee

Home arrow Forum
Welcome to the CoffeeCrew forum for registered users. - feel free to make yourself at home. This forum is dedicated to coffee and espresso based issues.

Forum spammers, link referrers, link placement, scam artists, confidence artists, crooks and obvious commercial shilling is discouraged. Violation of this one simple rule will result in you and your immediate geographical region being banned from the site so do not post ads or links to your site here unless approved by me! Violators of this one simple rule will find their firm, employer, and your pitiful self invoiced $1000 per violation of this simple rule. Enjoy!

The coffeecrew guestbook and forum has been alive for more than 10 years! Please consider it your one-stop resource for finding out about all things coffee, espresso, specialty coffee and all associated gear and equipment.

We welcome long posts - there is no word limit in fact. Keep in mind that you can only type for 15 to 20 minutes in the forum-post submit window (session timeout)- so consider composing your posts or responses in a text editor - then cut and paste! Thank you and enjoy the forums!

CoffeeCrew.com Discussion Forum and Guestbook  


Re:Lever machines more "maintenance free" ? - 2007/05/18 15:27 Nick-

I own an Elektra Microcasa a Leva (which I urge you to consider as well- if you read Mark Prince's detailed review of it at coffeegeek you'll be, at the very least, intrigued, or you'll be like me and run off and buy one), and since it has similar heating issues, I think can answer for the Pavoni too. You can indeed drain the pressure and then, with a glove or something else to protect your fingers, open and refill the boiler. You can do this all day. The problem is, and I think this is more what you're getting at, this is not going to do anything to cool down the brewhead. The only thing that you can do is wait, or use a cold wet towel (some use frozen ones) or some other means to cool the brewhead and, while you're at it, the portafilter. After 2 or 3 espressos both are scalding hot. If you just refill, the boiler will ramp up, the brewhead will not have had time to cool (I am pretty sure the Pavoni takes about 10 minutes to get to brew pressure just like the Elektra, so the machine will still be hot) and you're still facing too-hot espresso. So to answer your question, yes, you can bleed and refill, but it takes either time or a cooling fix of some sort to be able to pull shots right away.

These level machines are, to paraphrase Mark Prince, not about performance, but are about the experience, and I can say that my Elektra has absolutely made my routine a joy. Outrageously outstanding steaming and microfoaming capability too, as I've also heard about the Pavoni line. But they're not for everybody.
  | | Forum posting/replies are available to registered users.

      Topics Author Date
    thread link
Lever machines more "maintenance free" ?
Nick 2007/05/16 13:29
    thread link
thread linkthread link Re:Lever machines more "maintenance free" ?
colin 2007/05/17 14:42
    thread link
thread linkthread linkthread link Re:Lever machines more "maintenance free" ?
Nick 2007/05/18 10:25
    thread link
thread linkthread linkthread linkthread link Re:Lever machines more "maintenance free" ?
frege 2007/05/18 15:27
How is the current economic crisis effecting your coffee habits?
 
Powered by Joomlaboard

EspressoTop50.com