Coffee is a food, which goes off. 3-4 weeks post roast and the beans go down hill big time. Its like bread, eating a stale loaf just wont taste good no matter how you cut it! 
Supermarket beans are usually very stale. The only exception I have seen is the local roaster stocks some IGAs and you can often get bags within a week or 2 of roasting. Always check the roasted date, or just DIY the roasting - you will never look back. Easy, fun and cheap.
You can very easily see (and taste) stale coffee by watching the extraction, especially on a naked PF.
A small single boiler like the lelit or silvia can be ready in minutes. turn on, prime boiler (critical), hit steam switch. in 5 minutes (or less? - never timed it but quite quick) it will be at steam temp and everything will be very hot. turn off steam, purge the steam to refill boiler wait for one heat cycle and you are good to go!
Cheers
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Supermarket beans are usually very stale. The only exception I have seen is the local roaster stocks some IGAs and you can often get bags within a week or 2 of roasting. Always check the roasted date, or just DIY the roasting - you will never look back. Easy, fun and cheap.
You can very easily see (and taste) stale coffee by watching the extraction, especially on a naked PF.
A small single boiler like the lelit or silvia can be ready in minutes. turn on, prime boiler (critical), hit steam switch. in 5 minutes (or less? - never timed it but quite quick) it will be at steam temp and everything will be very hot. turn off steam, purge the steam to refill boiler wait for one heat cycle and you are good to go!
Cheers
Cheers


However (even though I still get a screw mark) the top of the puck comes out a bit wet. What would cause that?
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