I've had a bit of a search but can't find much specifically here about pre-infusion, so thought I'd start a new thread.
The context - I have a EM7000 and have had for a long time, but for some reason have never played with the standard settings. By crikey, changing the steam settings makes a massive difference to milk texturing...
And now to play with the pre-infusion settings - this machine comes with 3 settings which I am currently testing out, a few days each, with different beans, to get a good idea of the outcomes/pros/cons.
But more generally, does pre-infusion have this mythical quality of something that "you should just do"? I have read all sorts of opinions in my google travels - everything from
- makes a world of difference
- makes no difference
- makes it more likely to get a decent extraction
- makes it less likely to get a bad extraction
- soaks and expands the puck, making for an even extraction
- why bother with exacting dosing/tamping/grinding if you are just going to flood the puck before extraction .....
and so on.
I have my views, and I'll also post my EM7000 specific thoughts and findings later, but just thought I'd open this up to other opinions first.....
The context - I have a EM7000 and have had for a long time, but for some reason have never played with the standard settings. By crikey, changing the steam settings makes a massive difference to milk texturing...
And now to play with the pre-infusion settings - this machine comes with 3 settings which I am currently testing out, a few days each, with different beans, to get a good idea of the outcomes/pros/cons.
But more generally, does pre-infusion have this mythical quality of something that "you should just do"? I have read all sorts of opinions in my google travels - everything from
- makes a world of difference
- makes no difference
- makes it more likely to get a decent extraction
- makes it less likely to get a bad extraction
- soaks and expands the puck, making for an even extraction
- why bother with exacting dosing/tamping/grinding if you are just going to flood the puck before extraction .....
and so on.
I have my views, and I'll also post my EM7000 specific thoughts and findings later, but just thought I'd open this up to other opinions first.....
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