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  • #16
    Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

    Originally posted by Thundergod link=1201913985/0#14 date=1202447042
    Shannon,
    My internet is on the blink atm so Ill make this quick.
    If you can hang out til Im back online we can discuss my giving you some cap cups.
    Man this place is so generous!!! - thanks so much for your offer TG

    As a family we have been given some David Jones vouchers for christmas and birthdays over the last month, and Allison has given me the go ahead to use some of that money to buy a set of cap cups.
    I love gift vouchers, you get to spend your birthday presents on things that you really would like from people who might not really know what you really like.

    So thanks for the great offer TG, but I would now feel bad accepting some cups when I am about to grab some myself.

    I am about to do some searching for what to look for in a cup (height, weight, diameter etc).

    Right, the Bott is now sufficiently warm for my first in the many rounds of coffees today - all in the name of progress of course

    On with the show..........

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    • #17
      Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

      We have SUCCESS!!!

      I made some OK coffees over the weekend. Still a bit hard to get it just right, but at least I am now in the ball park.

      And the reason behind my success.......... see the picture, it was the only one that was about correct size for a proper cap. The taste was soo much better than when I make it out of my current mugs.
      Feels kind of funny, but lets face it Id drink out of a wine glass if it tastes good.

      The quest continues.......

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      • #18
        Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

        good stuff, Shannon!
        just keep playing with the grind... if your tamp and method is consistent, then the grind ( and its reaction to humidity and age of the beans) is going to be your adjustment priority.

        had to re-grind my first one this morning... it was quite cool here at 6AM and the humidity from my shower and the kettles we boiled for the early morning tea hung around a bit... the first shot was drinkable, but i knew i can do better so i did it again, and had a beautiful cup of bliss.

        cheers,
        L

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        • #19
          Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

          My offer of the cap cups still stands Shannon.
          See them in this thread:
          http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1163807810/

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          • #20
            Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

            Thanks again for the kind offer TG

            At the moment I just cant cope with all this good will being splashed around - it is so cool.

            I will still say no to the offer though - only because I have just this week done some photoshopping for my wifes boss and he is going to thank me by buying me some cap cups which means that I will go from nothing in the way of proper cups to 2 sets (when I go to DJs with the vouchers) in the space of a week.

            If I took you up on your offer I would feel incredibly greedy, when there are probably others out there with less than I.

            Thank you again though for your kindness in offering up something so nice.

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            • #21
              Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

              OK so heres a funny story for us

              I finish my last post here and decide to look for some nice looking cups to show Alli just in case she is asked by her boss to show the sort of thing Im after.

              All is well, when she says - "why havent you been using our small coffee cups?"
              Me: Our SMALL coffee cups? WHAT small coffee cups?!?
              Alli: The ones we got with the dinnerset

              It seems that when we bought our dinnerset some 10 years ago we had some nice, but a little delicate cups that we didnt really use. After a couple of months they were put away into a big tupperware container and stored in the back of the cupboard as noone was using them - naturally when instant coffee is the pinnicle of all coffee, you want a BIG mug to put it in.

              So I grab them out to have a gander -
              just over 200ml, fit nicely under the Bott without the need to take any spouts off the PF or remove the drip tray for clearance, and other than having an incredibly square base, are a pretty nice sort of cup

              So lets recap - under a week ago, I couldnt scrape together a decent cup and was even commandeering my 5yo daughters peter rabbit cup as it was a good size!, then TG graciously offers me a couple of his cups, I get the go ahead to use some DJ gift vouchers we received for some cups, my wifes boss decides to thank me for doing some photoshop work by buying me some cups, and now I find I have 8 at home begging to be used what a turnaround eh. And to top it off, Alli tells me one of the main reasons she wanted this dinnerset was for the cups and she has always been a bit bummed out that we did not use them - WOOHOO something about coffee that she might now like

              Trinity is also happy, she has already said to me - so does that mean you wont be using MY cup anymore daddy?? ;D

              Anyhoo, the shots are still hit and miss, but at least they will taste bad in some half decent cups.........

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              • #22
                Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

                Now thats funny.

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                • #23
                  Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

                  Time for a Botticelli update I think........

                  Things are going well at the moment, I am able to pull some reasonably consistant shots which is good.
                  I am finding the experience really fun - but still challenging, especially as I have made the swap to single basket to cut down a bit. Man you need to get your tamp just right to avoid the channelling disaster dont you!!!!

                  Milk is still very much hit and miss, I am yet to pour a half decent rosetta, but for the moment I am OK with this as at the end of the day a nice rosetta is just icing on the cake. I do firmly believe that good art does increase the overall coffee experience, but for the moment a good extraction and flavour will suffice - and as many have said here before, one day it will just click and all will be good in latte art world.

                  A couple of weeks ago I was able to use some gift vouchers to grab 4 cap cups that I am quite happy with - not exactly NP but I like them, and more to the point Allison does as well. These are being used almost soley at the moment and are good as they are more to the correct size of a cap cup (also meaning that a single shot does not get lost in the milk as well)

                  I am still struggling with shots seemingly extracting at the correct pace, but blonding occurring early, not sure how to go about fixing this, but nedd to work on grind and tamp some more, so that might fix it up a bit.

                  Anyhoo, onwards and upwards I go. I am going to have to invest in some decaf soon so that I can drink more and get techniques right without the nasty side effects that have been plaging me of late since upping my coffee intake.

                  The story will continue.......

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                  • #24
                    Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

                    Shannon,

                    Fellow Botticelli owner here...I suffer from much of the same grief you do. Its still very hit-and-miss after 4 years of ownership, particularly coffee extraction speed (even with a Rocky grinder and consistently fresh beans).

                    Milk frothing is also very irregular, with perfect foam/froth somewhat elusive.

                    Best of luck with it. There are a few other Botticelli owners who seem to have great success - I still wish Id plonked down the extra coin and got the Giotto.

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                    • #25
                      Re: Well the Botticelli has found its new home

                      Originally posted by DavidR link=1201913985/15#23 date=1209364262
                      Shannon,

                      Fellow Botticelli owner here...I suffer from much of the same grief you do. Its still very hit-and-miss after 4 years of ownership, particularly coffee extraction speed (even with a Rocky grinder and consistently fresh beans).

                      Milk frothing is also very irregular, with perfect foam/froth somewhat elusive.

                      Best of luck with it. There are a few other Botticelli owners who seem to have great success - I still wish Id plonked down the extra coin and got the Giotto.
                      Hi David,

                      The "Bott" is a very good machine. It just needs a little Silvia style TLC. FWIW, Jim of PIDkits can provide a variation on the Silvia kit which turns the Bott into a much tamer beast

                      Might be worth considering.

                      Chris

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