Should you go bottomless?
That is what we will be talking about today.
Or rather, I'll let you know the facts
and then you can choose to go bottomless or not. Let's be real.
The pandemic. We've all gone bottomless maybe once or twice.
So why should my portafilter be any exception?
Bottomless jokes aside, we're going to talk about two things.
Why would you go bottomless or naked?
You know what? No. Both of them were pretty raunchy.
And then we'll discuss my portafilters
that I got, which was a third party for my Breville dual boiler machine.
Have a review for that on my channel.
If you haven't seen that already, you can go check that out.
Let's get right into it.
Why would you choose a bottomless portafilter?
There are many, many advantages to it.
So, first of all, a dual boiler machine, this came stock with it.
This works really great. The espresso was fine with me with it.
And it's especially good if you're two people and you're making 2 espresso shots.
Whenever I'm making drinks, even with people, I'm making one drink.
I'm making a flat white.
The double spouted doesn't really have an advantage for me in that sense.
It took a while before I considered getting myself a bottomless portafilter
that was just extra money didn't want to spend.
And I figured, you know what?
Let's just play with the machine, get better at it, see if I need it.
But you know what?
It's just so pretty.
That's one of the reasons that you'll want to get it.
And I actually made a video called Coffee Porn on my channel.
That is just that's one of the reasons.
The second reason is
when you have a bottommost porter filter, you can actually see
if there's any channeling issues.
If you're only getting extraction coming out of one side,
not the whole thing, you'll see quickly where you made mistakes.
And that's great, because then you can correct it's a visual cue to help you.
Making espresso is basically like cooking.
Cooking, you need to season it every step for making good espresso.
Every single step of the espresso process is important
to the final result in your cup in extracting the coffee well and everything.
Another advantage with a bottomless portafilter
coffee doesn't need to run through these two spouts.
When you stop the extraction,
you get maybe one or two grams more in your cup.
Whereas with here, I felt it was somewhere close to four grams,
which makes getting the right output a little bit difficult, getting exact.
So let's say I was looking at scale pool.
I'm at thirty six grams and I stop.
It goes all the way to like forty grams.
And that's not exactly the goal I wanted.
And that changes pretty drastically the taste of the cup.
Whereas here with a bottomless when you cut the coffee
and you cut the water and you cut the pressure,
it just stops and very little comes out.
And let's talk about crema.
As you can see, on a bottomless porta filter,
you get more crema, about 50 percent more yield, according to some websites.
And you'll also notice that there are larger bubbles, instead, crema,
because it doesn't come into contact with anything other than the basket.
The coffee goes directly into your cup, whereas on a double spouted portafilter,
it will come in contact with more metal.
It'll cool down a little bit as well because of that thermal mass.
And you may have a metallic taste. The possible dirty spouts
could contaminate, in effect, the taste of your cup.
But because it's going through the spout, you'll also get finer texture creamer.
So when it comes to taste between the two,
I don't think I can taste the difference.
I'm better at espresso, but not to that point of tasting those small nuances.
However, it's Prometheus who's a really big coffee you tube.
You've probably seen his videos by now.
He has a video which I'll link below that talks about the taste between the two.
The last thing I remember watching from him is that he liked
the taste better in the double sided sort of filter.
I cannot tell the difference.
Another advantage is you also get more height clearance between the two.
You get more height clearance.
If that's an issue for you with your cups with me, they both work.
Except for this one, I had to kind of wiggle my cup in
to take into account the double spell's,
whereas this one, I could just stick it underneath.
Another advantage, I realize that a bottomless porta filter
had that I only realized
when I was doing my cleaning I haven't seen other people comment on.
So this is a bonus advantage that you're getting exclusively here.
You would use less coffees, a cleaning powder,
what you would use to back flush your machine, but also to clean out
all that gunky coffee oils that basically become glue and residue
on all of your different parts of your machine, including your water filter.
And because it doesn't have the spouts and everything that you have to go into,
you actually don't have to use as much powder.
You have to use much liquid.
Of course, keep everything proportional as they suggest.
So you can be a little bit less wasteful because it's just the basket.
I will also link perfuse a powder in the description below.
Whereas here you had the double standard.
There's a base rate here because it's not a naked bottomless water filter.
The double spout is touching the coffee.
So I'm going to talk to you about this Porterfield of
I got this is actually the second one I got of Ali Express.
I will link it down below.
It expresses a website that is based in China that you can basically purchase
directly from manufacturers or I think there's
also like basically think of it as Amazon, but in in China, it's massive.
If you haven't heard of it already, massive.
If you're going for a third party, make sure to check reviews
if there are any. If not, you're taking a chance.
I think this one didn't have any reviews.
I ended up taking a chance on it. It came with its own basket.
Which looks to be a basket that's in between a single and a double.
I even identified it just to make sure I don't mix it with my brother ones.
It looks like it's fine.
I mean, I didn't take it under a microscope, but it looks fine.
I usually use it because I'm used to using the double.
I like it. This has a slight angle.
I just don't want to start messing around and learning everything on a new basket.
I'm good with the double basket from Breville.
I just popped it in and stick it in this one and it works fine.
The reason that I got this instead of the Breville one, first of all,
I like the look of the wood handle.
I just found that so much more elegant.
It doesn't quite match the Breville double boiler
because the rest of it is just this brush stainless steel.
But I love the look of this, whereas the official Breville naked bottomless
porta filter is a plastic black one that looks like this, but it's naked.
And I just think that's very boring. So I'm not a huge fan of that.
The second thing, it's also much cheaper.
I believe this is like often out of stock because every thing related to coffee
now is out of stock because know still Covid.
Everybody wants to buy coffee, make coffee at home.
Everyone wants to become an at home quarantina.
And then like all of the suppliers and shipping and this is cheaper.
This came to about forty to twenty five us a fifty fifty Canadian
whereas the Breville naked bottomless porta
filter eighty dollars USD one hundred and twenty Canadian.
So that's a significant price difference. It's more than half.
Plus taxes had no tax. The only disadvantage you have to wait.
Took about two to three weeks for it to arrive for me in Canada. It was fine.
I mean, I could still make coffee with this.
It's just a matter of testing my patience
and not refreshing the track and field all the time. But it's here now.
This is the second portafilter I got.
And the other one worked perfectly fine and it looked great.
The reason that I got this one instead was minor.
First of all, it has like these nice like the metal piece in the back,
whereas the other one was just one long would handle.
But the main difference is it didn't have this lip.
So that's my tip,
because when you want to do the clear water back flushing
before you shut off your machine
and you want to rinse out three way solenoid valve,
if you want to use a technique from Phil from Sage/Breville, the wiggle technique,
then you need to have this look, because the other one didn't have a lip
ended up leaking all over my hand and just burning my hand.
I wasn't particularly fun, so I decided to sell it.
And then I got this one on the lip.
But the funny thing is, I don't even do that technique anymore. Whatever.
The other thing that I know is with this bottomless naked portafilter,
I can compare the double spouted Breville water filter.
I notice that the little lip here is a little bit less deep than the original.
It doesn't seem to cause any issues in terms of actually connecting.
The only thing is that
I need to twist this in further, and it's kind off angle like that.
Ahh, do I care that much?
I mean, I care a little bit, but I don't care that much.
So all in all, I'm quite happy with this portafilter.
The only negative is that this lip thing,
which work gets a nice seal You need to rotate it more.
That's the only thing.
That's everything when it comes to a bottomless naked portafilter.
Let me know in the comments below if you're going to get yourself one.
I feel like I'm in a game show.
Let me know if you're going to get yourself a unless they get bored of Ildar.
It's just really funny to see a naked bottomless portafilter Nope, just me.
Maybe I've had a few coffees today and then, you know, do the usual
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