Atomic Vintage Coffee Maker
Hi guys this is a new series where i make coffee using different machines and trying them out, yes the coffee shop blog will still be going but this will be a new series of blogs where i go over and review different ways of making coffees with different equipment, old machines to new machines.
How about we make an espresso coffee from a vintage machine. This machine I had some time in my coffee shop. I genuinely use it to for decoration and I have had many people interested in it and what it is used for when they walk in the coffee shop. So today I am going to use it for the second time and show how it is used .
The portafilter on the machine can hold up to about 25 grams of coffee . The holes are big though on the portafilter and an espresso grind will be to fine for it so I will have to make sure the grind size is a bit big. Now what I have seen that there is no tamper for the machine so I do not think that it needs to be tampered.
Now this coffee machine requires a hot plate or gas as it builds pressure inside. It does get hot like really hot so I would advise not to touch it with you bare hands and to have a thick cloth so you are able to move it if need be. While gas is on and boiling the coffee inside and creating the pressure to travel up and extract the coffee. The bottom plate does get hot so it act like a cup warmer . You could probably fry an egg on there so that is why I did not use any cup but the metal jug that came with the machine .
It took about 10 minutes to heat up to start the extraction and I could already see the problem and why the coffee would have a bit of a burnt taste . The bottom plate of the coffee machine was hott and made the metal jug hot as well. Which when the coffee was extracting it was getting burnt and I could smell a faint burnt caramel lingering in the air from the coffee. I New the coffee was going to be horrible just by that but I still went with it .
After the extraction I switched of the gas to try use the frother but it was not working , well it was but it was just squirting out hott water. So I had to use my coffee machine for the frothing of the milk . When I switched of my gas the extraction stopped immediately .
I poured the coffee in to the cup and was ready to pour the milk . I also poured it in to another cup to taste and see what it tastes like on it own .
The cappuccino I made taste over extracted. It had a harsh taste to it and was bitter . It was pretty horrible, and I did not want to take another sip of it at all.
For the plain black coffee . It had a burnt caramel taste , very harsh taste and very bitter . There was nothing pleasant about this cup of coffee at all .
So I decided to go at it again and loaded 20 grams of coffee . And this time I never let the cup or metal jug touch the hot plate . I waiting and watched patiently for the extraction to take place . As soon as it did I then put the cup under to let the extraction happen in it . It did extract a bit fast ... but I think I should lower the heat a bit as the heat was a bit high . But as the extraction happened I turned it of and it was done .
I than frothed my milk and I was ready for the taste test ! Can you guess how it was ......?
Much better , not good but much better it was missing a few flavors but it was much drinkable . It was very light on the tongue and not so bitter and harsh as the last one .
If there is any information or any suggestions you have upon using this machine be sure to tell me . Or any hacks I can do to make a better espresso shot. I would not mind modifying a basket for the portafilter so I can use a finer grind size .
Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog be sure to have a great day ahead! feel free to us the comments if you have any inputs ! ill be sure to reply ! Stay safe
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