Comments on: Slayer Espresso Machines – Brew Temperature Stability.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:50:45 +0000

hey John –
I wrote this piece some time ago. . . But take things like your typical off-the-shelf pressure gauge or even pressure stats and think how these respond to change or how precise they actually are when they finally land. These items are really more like the dummy lights on old GM’s than real diagnostic tools with meaningful read-outs. Even the iconic LM sight glass never reads the same way on two different machines for a number of reasons. Maybe it isn’t that important that it does. But these are the things that I am referring to.

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By: Jepy

Jepy — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:14:11 +0000

Just curious about what you are referring to in this:
“stuff proved very seductive before we clued in to the fact that low build quality and poor performance were what lay at the other side of many of the whiz- bang widgetry on offer”