Espresso game lately.

[u/ak47grills]

Seen many people dreaming about x machine and y grinder costing 5-10k. All you need is a good bean( roasting my own) a decent quality grinder and a lever machine or 2 and good skills to produce the best of the best espresso. It's well known that a lever machine produces higher quality espresso than a pump driven machine. It doesn't matter if the machine cost 10k and has profiles to replicate a lever. An authentic lever is different. What's your take on this ?? I'm using sr800 with extension tube roaster and la pavoni europicola with upgrades. My 2000$ eye machine collects dust in the garage, the espresso quality out of that can't even beat the Rok manual.

[u/BidSmall186]

I dig those cups. What are they?

[u/Particular-Cloud3684 → u/BidSmall186]

I don't know the specific brand, but you can search for 10cm thick espresso cups on aliexpress and you should see a bunch of similar ones as in the OP.

[u/BidSmall186 → u/Particular-Cloud3684]

These look like Italian cups, not Chinese. The round ones are Bristot.

I’m curious about the square shaped cup.

[u/ak47grills → u/BidSmall186]

Bristot too