Good morning, and I'd like to show you my routine on my Decent Espresso Machine
and how I make two lattes in the morning for me and my girlfriend.
So I'm just going to go ahead and do it and just talk a little bit as I do it.
So the machine's already preheated, and I got my portafilter warm.
I've got my grinder here, and I'll use our funnel.
And I use a scale to weigh it.
My recipe is 15 or 16 grams and I'll explain this in a second.
So here I am weighing out 16 grams.
Okay?
16.17 says my scale.
So there I am, I give it a little tap
so it doesn't fall out and then over the sink so I don't make a mess
because it is the morning and I'm not my best.
I tap a little bit.
Like that, and now it looks pretty even.
Go to my tamping stand.
Okay? And at this point I just tamp,
boom
lift that out, give that a brush, and lock the portafilter in.
Okay?
I have two cups.
And put that there and start that.
In my case, I use two portafilters. This one was not preheated, but it'll do the job.
Now, my second shot takes 15 grams, and the reason there's a difference
- I'm going to tare here -
Okay?
The reason there's a difference is that this grinder keeps some grinds in from last night,
so they're not all fresh within the first shot.
So I add an extra gram to compensate for that. If I don't put the extra gram in, it flows too quickly.
Okay, so here's the shot flowing, and I can see it going.
It's going from 0.5 to about 1 ml/s.
The profile I'm using right now is climbing to 8 bars and then slowly descends to 4 bars
and will stop automatically at 32 grams in the cup.
So as soon as that's finished, I'm going to yank it out, it's going to stop on its own right about now.
Okay?
You'll notice the scale is below the drip tray,
so that lets me fairly easily keep the surface clean.
Let's do the next one.
Boom.
And now start.
Okay, next I am going to make enough milk for two lattes.
Now, this thing will take up to 600 ml of milk,
I put about 380 in, and I'm going to steam for a little bit,
and then I'll let the pitcher just sit. So here I am pouring in 380.
Okay? And I'm also going to turn the thermometer on.
And it's set to 62°C, which is the temperature I like.
So this shot is just about to finish, and I'll be able to start steaming in a second.
So I take that off.
And we go, let's steam.
Now, in this case I'm going to do half hands-free, so I'm going to push the steam wand down a little bit like that,
and I start steaming.
Okay?
And what I wanna do is build up a nice, good head of steam.
And I've got the tip just slightly out, you can hear that that nice steaming sound.
And I just keep lowering the pitcher, okay?
And I'm just doing that with one hand because the milk is not that hot yet.
And basically when the pitcher hits the bottom,
it'll be ready for me to set.
Okay I'm kind of happy with that.
So what I do is just gently move that to the back there,
and I let the wand go.
Now, while that's finishing - because that's going to take a good minute -
I'm going to take my two pucks, and
bang it out. If it's not too dirty, I brush it out, but since I have two portafilters right here
if I have two portafilters like I do here, I'm just going to rinse them out.
That's never happened before.
My basket fell out, probably from my last demonstration of how I changed baskets.
So I'm going to rinse that out.
That's at 60 degrees.
Okay.
And I'm going to hit stop.
I'm going to take that out.
I grab this
and give that a little wipe.
Now I try to make two lattes with one set of milk,
so this is at just under 600 now and I'm going to pour that in.
I'm going to try and pour in 1/2.
Okay, so
a little bit more, bon.
What I find is the milk needs a little bit of time to rise
the steamed foam needs time to rise in order to make a latte.
So I'm going to lock that in.
At this point, I'm going to hit the off button here because I don't need the machine anymore.
And I'm going to pour my first latte.
Now, this I'm still working on is getting perfect Latte Art on two at once.
Let's see how it turned out.
Okay, so the first one is pretty good.
A little bit thin, but it's not bad.
And the second one.
I'm going to do it with this milk jug.
And usually, the second one's a bit thicker.
Okay, so I'm moving my milk jug up and down to try and mix the the fill and the foam up,
Okay?
And this one as you can see is definitely thicker than the first one I did,
but they're both pretty acceptable.
And at this point I'm going to rinse my two pitchers
and turn off the thermometer.
That, and go enjoy my coffee.