Have you had a cafe prepared coffee that was memorable for the wrong reasons? Have you made a coffee at home and accidentally shattered the nearby fish tank with a flying portafilter handle? Well this is a thread to share the tale.....😃
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I will kick us off. I went to a cafe today and asked for a double espresso. This was prepared in front of me via letting one stream from a double pf basket extract into the cup, and the other side go to the drip tray. They stopped the shot after around 30 seconds and handed me the 'double'. Pointed out my confusion, and they apologised and with the same coffee still in the pf ran the pump for another 30 seconds to give me my ' 'double'. 😂.
Tried it for humours sake, and it tasted as bad as you would imagine it would. 😃😃😃
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- Dec 13
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I was testing a machine's pump pressure at the group head and nothing was registering on the gauge ... nothing ... the café owner and I are waiting for something to happen and water starts pouring over our shoes off the counter because the OPV isn't holding anything back and the drip cup overflowed.
Oops...
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Senior Member
- Dec 13
- 956
- Brisbane
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Senior Member
- Dec 13
- 956
- Brisbane
- Bulk brew; Pour over; Double Ristretto; Oat Milk Cappuccino or Piccolo
- Send PM
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Senior Member
- Dec 13
- 956
- Brisbane
- Bulk brew; Pour over; Double Ristretto; Oat Milk Cappuccino or Piccolo
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I work in a cafe where my boss likes to put the portafilter handle into the group head, then prepare the milk, and only then extract the coffee shot. She's also not keen on backflushing, wiping the steam wand or purging the steam wand. She pre grinds a bag of coffee at a time, lets it sit in the grinder overnight. And to the best of my knowledge, the grinder is NEVER cleaned. She also heats milk to a good 80'C as that's the way she likes it. I'm no expert but....it makes me cringe. She's an older lady who doesn't like to be told. I bite my tongue a lot and just clean things up best I can when i work.
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Went into an industrial estate café and ordered a flat white, I could see the twin group machine on the counter in front of me with lights on. "Yep no worries I just turned it on you'll have to wait about 5 minutes for it to warm up" No worries says me. The person then disappeared into the back kitchen whence I thought I could hear a kettle boiling but thought nothing of it. 3 minutes later the person appeared with a steaming hot polystyrene cup and presented it to me. I paid and left heading straight to the bin.
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