Hi folks,
I've spent the last week or so playing around with a bottomless portafilter on my Gaggia classic, to work on my technique. It's been very revealing and I've enjoyed the results.
Anyway, today I popped the filter basket back in the regular portafilter, so that I could make two coffees at once. Lo and behold, it very nearly choked the machine up! Very little flow, jet black ink barely flowing from the spouts.
My routine stayed exactly the same (dose, grind, temp surfing, tamping etc etc), only the group handle changed. I had three runs at it just to be sure.
The regular group handle is standard Gaggia, the bottomless is from Coffee Parts, but very similar in construction where it counts.
All I can think of is the regular group handle brings the basket closer to the shower head, thereby compressing the puck more? Perhaps I can think of a way to test this later.
Anyone with any better ideas?
Andrew
I've spent the last week or so playing around with a bottomless portafilter on my Gaggia classic, to work on my technique. It's been very revealing and I've enjoyed the results.
Anyway, today I popped the filter basket back in the regular portafilter, so that I could make two coffees at once. Lo and behold, it very nearly choked the machine up! Very little flow, jet black ink barely flowing from the spouts.
My routine stayed exactly the same (dose, grind, temp surfing, tamping etc etc), only the group handle changed. I had three runs at it just to be sure.
The regular group handle is standard Gaggia, the bottomless is from Coffee Parts, but very similar in construction where it counts.
All I can think of is the regular group handle brings the basket closer to the shower head, thereby compressing the puck more? Perhaps I can think of a way to test this later.
Anyone with any better ideas?
Andrew

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