HI all!
First post here
Ive been "lurking" around for the last couple of weeks and I must say you guys know your coffee!
Ive been brewing coffe for many years, although not in such a "professional" way as you guys do here. I started back in Spain using the typical "mokas" and when I came to Australia nine years ago I bought a Krups espresso machine which served me good (using supermarket coffe, I know, I know... :-[) for 4-5 years. When that machine died I replaced it with a Breville Cafe Roma which I got for a bit more than $100 and I must say its done a good job until now (again, with "staled" supermarket coffee and pressurized baskets).
Now the breville has died and I was thinking on getting a Breville Ikon, non-pressurized baskets and a Sunbeam EM0450 ro EM0480 grinder. This would have set me up around $400 which is over my budget at the moment (none) but I urgent need as I need my espresso in the morning!
HOWEVER, yesterday while doing some shopping I came accross a "weird" machine at a second-hand shop. The machine is badged as "G3 Ferrari Cremosa Junior" and upon closer inspection I saw that it had non-pressurized baskets and that it was a boiler machine very similar to the "Saeco Aroma". So I ended up buying it for the huge amount of $25.
Got it home, cleaned it up a bit, descaled it and tested it and lo and behold it works!
Now Ive never used boiler machines before so Im having some problems, specially when frothing milk as it only produces steam for around a minute or so and I have to close the steamer and let it "fill up" the boiler and this way Im not getting consistent crema. I prime the machine before using but I still cant get ennough steam
The machine has a spring-type swith (you have to keep it pressed manually) under the steam know which after fiddling around I think is for filling up the boiler but Ive never seen one like that before.
Now if I can get the frothing right Ill go and buy myself a decnt grinder (my options still are the EM0450 or EM0480) and I can get "proper" espresso for less than what I was going to spend on the Ikon only!
A couple of crappy pics I took with the mobile:

First post here

Ive been "lurking" around for the last couple of weeks and I must say you guys know your coffee!
Ive been brewing coffe for many years, although not in such a "professional" way as you guys do here. I started back in Spain using the typical "mokas" and when I came to Australia nine years ago I bought a Krups espresso machine which served me good (using supermarket coffe, I know, I know... :-[) for 4-5 years. When that machine died I replaced it with a Breville Cafe Roma which I got for a bit more than $100 and I must say its done a good job until now (again, with "staled" supermarket coffee and pressurized baskets).
Now the breville has died and I was thinking on getting a Breville Ikon, non-pressurized baskets and a Sunbeam EM0450 ro EM0480 grinder. This would have set me up around $400 which is over my budget at the moment (none) but I urgent need as I need my espresso in the morning!
HOWEVER, yesterday while doing some shopping I came accross a "weird" machine at a second-hand shop. The machine is badged as "G3 Ferrari Cremosa Junior" and upon closer inspection I saw that it had non-pressurized baskets and that it was a boiler machine very similar to the "Saeco Aroma". So I ended up buying it for the huge amount of $25.
Got it home, cleaned it up a bit, descaled it and tested it and lo and behold it works!
Now Ive never used boiler machines before so Im having some problems, specially when frothing milk as it only produces steam for around a minute or so and I have to close the steamer and let it "fill up" the boiler and this way Im not getting consistent crema. I prime the machine before using but I still cant get ennough steam

The machine has a spring-type swith (you have to keep it pressed manually) under the steam know which after fiddling around I think is for filling up the boiler but Ive never seen one like that before.
Now if I can get the frothing right Ill go and buy myself a decnt grinder (my options still are the EM0450 or EM0480) and I can get "proper" espresso for less than what I was going to spend on the Ikon only!
A couple of crappy pics I took with the mobile:


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