- #Breville expresso express how to#
- #Breville expresso express update#
- #Breville expresso express manual#
- #Breville expresso express full#
- #Breville expresso express series#
The Barista Express doesn't have a timer, so have your phone or smart scale ready to time it with the stopwatch. Put a cup underneath and press the double shot button to start the brew. Put the portafilter under the brew head and twist to lock it in. Tamp too hard and the shot will trickle out for a min or more. Tamp too light, and the coffee may just pour straight through. Tamping is the hardest part of this whole process. Once we started using one of these our tamps became a lot more consistent. We found a cheap one on Amazon that fits the non standard baskets of the Breville Barista Express. Once you’re done grinding, it's time to tamp.īefore tamping, we recommend using some sort of distributor tool. Measure the grind amount periodically until you get it to 18 grams if grinding manually. You can shake or tap the portafilter as the grounds come down so that the coffee settles into the portafilter a bit for less waste.
#Breville expresso express manual#
Place the portafilter underneath the grinder and click the button for an automatic amount or by pressing the portafilter in and holding for to grind a manual amount. If weighing, using a good kitchen scale that measures grams, zero out your portafilter.
The light under double should be lit up under the Filter Size.
#Breville expresso express full#
While the machine is heating up, make sure that the water tank is full and that the coffee you want to brew is in the hopper.Īlso, make sure to wipe down or rinse the group head between uses to prevent over-extraction caused by coffee getting stuck in there. Since this is a single boiler machine, we like to heat it up for 20-30 mins before use.
#Breville expresso express how to#
We like the training wheels that this machine provides, but we want to learn how to control our shots as we dial them in.įor this reason, we stay away from the pressurized filter baskets. We always use the normal (non-pressurized) double espresso filter basket. We may experiment with some DIY mineral water later down the line. The Barista Express also includes a filter that you should change every few weeks. We use filtered water straight from the dispenser on our fridge. There is a way to adjust the temperature of the Breville Barista Express within a few degrees, but this is one variable we leave as default for our purposes. Filter SizeĪlways set to double espresso. Wasteful, I know, but your next door will have a more consistent grind size and amount. We’ve found that grind amount to be a good starting point for the non-standard 54 inch filter basket on this machine.Īlso, a good practice when changing grind size or grind amount is manually grinding a bit to get rid of the grounds from the old setting. To get a more consistent grind amount, we recommend getting a decent kitchen scale with gram measurements and grinding using the manual setting instead.įor our purposes going forward on the site, we will be starting with the grind amount set to the 12 o’clock position for our initial shot. While this seems like a good baseline, the weight may vary depending on the coffee and how full the hopper is.Īs far as I know, on the automatic setting, the Breville Barista Express pretty much just grinds for a number of seconds depending on grind amount.
In the beginning, we used to set the grind amount dial to a notch or 2 below the middle setting for automatic grinding.
#Breville expresso express series#
This may vary based on the darkness of the coffee that you enjoy, but the baseline grind size we'll use for our future posts in this series will be 4. The reason is that based on the coffees we've used thus far, we've had a lot of satisfactory shots at a 4 grind size.įor the most part when we've had to change the grind size, it's either been down to a 3 or up to a 5. Our first shot method makes heavy use of the automatic features of the machine.įor starters we set the grind size to 4 on the built in grinder. There may be others on an espresso journey with the same machine, that could benefit from knowing how we use this machine. We recommend starting with espressos that you've enjoyed at decent coffee shops, so you have an idea of what they're supposed to taste like to compare to your shots.Īs mentioned in the Keep Roasting intro post, the espresso machine we are using is the Breville Barista Express (model BES870XL). The plan is to use our most current method listed here to pull our initial shots and dial in from there once we have a baseline.
#Breville expresso express update#
If and when we update our baseline method, we will update this post. As we discuss the coffees we've been making at home, we wanted to share our method for getting the best espresso we can pull from them.Ĭurrently, we use a pretty lazy method to dial coffee in but we expect that to change over time as we get comfortable with all the different variables that make a good espresso shot.
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