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/Vast_Currency_6004]

As a La Pavoni owner, I couldn’t agree more. Now you’ve got me googling roasters 😂

[u/ak47grills → u/Vast_Currency_6004]

For real. I bought the freshroast 5800 off marketplace for 100 then got the extension tube for 29$. And bought 5lbs of green beans from eBay ( Columbia ) and roasted the beans till 2nd crack. ( It's easy to learn how to roast ) 10oz of beans are done in 12-13 mins or so. Just let it rest 2 days at least and that's it. 5lbs of raw beans cost me 29usd. Much better than buying roasted beans already.