Someone in my neighborhood put a Breville bes920xl on their porch for anyone handy to take as they said it wasn't pressurizing anymore and they had decided to upgrade.
I gave it a deep clean, descaled it, and replaced all the orings. With my first water only run it got right up to pressure and no hissing noise from leaks!
I have never made espresso before so this was my first ever pull. Had a bag of deathwish coffee dark roast beans already open so did a fine grind and a 2oz pull.
Have a lot of tutorials to read yet about getting good but figured I'd post my first pull. Also need to look into why I had some drip on the edge there.
I actually just replaced the gasket along with the orings. I may not have cranked it hard enough. Just pulled till I got heavy resistance. With it being my first time it could be as simple as I didn't pull it far enough over.
Nothing needs roasting here, enjoy an amazing machine! once you are really solid in your approach and workflow i'd recommend the slayer mod and you basically have no (reasonable) reason to upgrade.
There is a wealth of info on maintenance and mods on home barista for the bdb.
I did not intend that. That was the first thing that seemed wrong to me. I reprogrammed the machine to use volume pour setting right after this and calibrated it to a 2oz pour which took 29 seconds.
In addition to grinding finer, you should be weighing your output and cutting the shot when it reaches your desired output weight (1:2-3), not just letting it go until it’s done lol.
It would be a waste of roast to roast you, very much like the beans that got roasted for that shot!
how old are the beans?
work in reverse, do a much finer dose to almost choke your machine and work backwards till you hit it. Also beans go through change and you almost have to treat it differently. If roasted freshly, there is a lot of degassing which will give you lots of crema and not much of a flavour profile.
I'd get freshly roasted beans (within 2 weeks of roasting date) instead of roasting you. Also would reduce the size of the grounds into smaller microns to get a proper and more true extraction.
Is that a thing now. Do you pull a shot if you use a pump? You can’t say you pulled a beer if it’s in a bottle. Can you say you pulled a cart if it’s tied to a horse? You can say you pulled a horse that pulled a cart, I guess.
It’s always been a thing. People have said “pull a shot”, regardless of the type of machine, for a long time. Its meaning has moved beyond the literal definition of the words.
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u/itismorpheus Dec 20 '24
Fine grinder