jwoodyu Senior Member Joined: 31 Dec 2010 Posts: 705 Location: Michigan Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Allex Duetto II Grinder: Mazzer Major Roaster: Poppery
Posted Thu Apr 21, 2011, 12:53pm Subject: Full nude coffee bar Question for you naked PF guys
Do you ever use anythng besides your bottomless and if so why?
I learned on a my naked PF and just never bothered switching. Just wondered if I am missing out on something doing it that way.
You know those people that want to tell you how to raise your kids but have none of their own? That is how i feel when someone with a kitchen appliance tells me how the merits or dis-merits of my machine or how to use it.
Posted Thu Apr 21, 2011, 7:32pm Subject: Re: Full nude coffee bar Question for you naked PF guys
I pretty much use the single spout PF only. It is easy to put the cup in the correct spot when it is early and dark in the morning :) I use the naked very rarely, but probably for the same reason as you (just never bothered switching). It might be just me, but I prefer the taste from a spouted as compared to the naked. Or maybe it is my technique. My spouted handles also match the knobs, but the naked doesn't (different manufacturer). So it's a matching decision too :)
jwoodyu Senior Member Joined: 31 Dec 2010 Posts: 705 Location: Michigan Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Allex Duetto II Grinder: Mazzer Major Roaster: Poppery
Posted Thu Apr 21, 2011, 9:13pm Subject: Re: Full nude coffee bar Question for you naked PF guys
Duno how this double posted but good enough for me. Thanks
You know those people that want to tell you how to raise your kids but have none of their own? That is how i feel when someone with a kitchen appliance tells me how the merits or dis-merits of my machine or how to use it.
JasonBrandtLewis Senior Member Joined: 9 Dec 2005 Posts: 6,100 Location: Berkeley, CA Expertise: I live coffee
Espresso: Elektra T1 - La Valentina -... Grinder: Mahlkönig K30 Vario -... Vac Pot: Yama 5-cup Drip: CCD, Chemex Roaster: No, no, not another...
Posted Fri Apr 22, 2011, 6:06am Subject: Re: Full nude coffee bar Question for you naked PF guys
In the FWIW mode, I have four portafilters for my Elektra: one bottomless, one single, one double, and one double but with the narrower LM spout. The first shot of the day is always bottomless. The rest of the day, it's the regular spouts for capps and lattes, and the bottomless for straight shots . . .
Posted Fri Apr 22, 2011, 7:55am Subject: Re: Full nude coffee bar Question for you naked PF guys
JasonBrandtLewis Said:
In the FWIW mode, I have four portafilters for my Elektra: one bottomless, one single, one double, and one double but with the narrower LM spout. The first shot of the day is always bottomless. The rest of the day, it's the regular spouts for capps and lattes, and the bottomless for straight shots . . .
jwoodyu Senior Member Joined: 31 Dec 2010 Posts: 705 Location: Michigan Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Allex Duetto II Grinder: Mazzer Major Roaster: Poppery
Posted Fri Apr 22, 2011, 9:02am Subject: Re: Full nude coffee bar Question for you naked PF guys
JasonBrandtLewis Said:
In the FWIW mode, I have four portafilters for my Elektra: one bottomless, one single, one double, and one double but with the narrower LM spout. The first shot of the day is always bottomless. The rest of the day, it's the regular spouts for capps and lattes, and the bottomless for straight shots . . .
I never considered some might change the PF during the day or for different types drinks. I was thinking peeps might use the bottomless as a traning tool then toss it the back of junk drawer once the skill was developed. I am not sure I would want to wait to heat up a different porta filter for a drink change. Heck more often than not I get the basket ready outside the PF or use a ghetto funnel in a hurry just to keep the PF temp up.
Making the wife or guest a capp or something turns into an excuse for me to use the surplus to make myself a nice tight macchiato, waste not want not. >:) Our Duetto is subject to make any number different types of drinks so I don't think I could make switching the PF around work for me but I am for sure intrested in the response.
You know those people that want to tell you how to raise your kids but have none of their own? That is how i feel when someone with a kitchen appliance tells me how the merits or dis-merits of my machine or how to use it.
To start with, let's not take that too literally. I should have said, "The rest of the day, it's MOSTLY the regular spouts for capps and lattes, and MOSTLY the bottomless for straight shots . . ." In other words, it's not an absolute.
As to the why: when I'm making a milk drink, I am steaming at the same time as I'm pulling the shot. I'm keeping an eye on both the milk and the shot. But when I'm pulling a straight shot, my eye is solely on the shot itself. Even though I have a full-automatic (aka volumetrically dosed) machine, I still stop on blonding.
That said, in the FWIW Dept., shots from a bottomless portafilter taste different, IMHO, than from a regular one. I still have yet to decide which I prefer; they are both delicious -- just different.
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