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Temperature
Cold lever, filter and cup have a negative effect on the result.
Preheat the filter and lever in warm water and dry thoroughly before use.
Pour hot water in the cup and let it warm up. You can use the hot steam from the nozzle to heat up the cup.
Amount of coffee
• Too little – coffee will be weak.
• Too much coffee – the taste of coffee will strong, bitter, even astringent
Coffee coarseness and tamping
Care must be taken to ensure that the coffee is finely ground, but not too fine and properly tamped. The degree
of fineness of the coffee and tamping will affect the speed of the water flow that will flow through the ground
coffee through the filter and thus the resulting taste.
Too compacted or finely ground coffee (looks like a powder and resembles smooth flour when rubbed
between the fingers) will prevent water from flowing through the coffee, even under pressure. The resulting
coffee will be dark and bitter.
On the other hand, the result of a coarsely ground or under-tamped coffee will be a sour, odorless coffee.
You can tamp coarse coffee with more force, tamp more gently the fine ground coffee.
When choosing ground coffee, pay attention to the information on the packaging. It is stated here usually for
which type of coffee machines the coffee is intended. Choose one that has the ESPRESSO type designation - for
example, "ESPRESSO MACINATO", the lever coffee machine symbol or the information that it is suitable for all
types of coffee machines. Coffee grinders usually have the option of setting the grinding coarseness and the
coarseness for "ESPRESSO" coffee is marked. Even so, make sure that the coffee has coarseness similar to the
structure of table salt.
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