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There are many different recipes that lead to an excellent cup of coffee, the following example should serve as a basic recipe and can be changed and adapted according to your wishes and willingness to experiment. With this recipe you will brew about 270 ml of coffee, that is one cup, or two cups.

Here is a small guide:

Step by step

Step 1 Preparation:

• Grind 18 g of coffee
• Rinse the filter paper to get rid of papery flavor and preheat the brewer.

Step 2 Blooming:

• Pour in 18 g of coffee.
• Start timer.
• With approx. 40 g water, wet all coffee evenly and quickly.

Blooming prepares the coffee for the coming extraction.

Step 3 Intervals:

Use slow circular motions going inward and back outward in spirals for each pour

• 00:30 min to 120 g
• 00:50 min to 180 g
• 01:15 min to 240 g
• 01:40 min to 300 g

Finally, wait until the coffee has finished brewing and enjoy!

There are many different recipes that lead to an excellent cup of espresso. This example should serve as a basic recipe and can be changed and adapted according to your wishes and willingness to experiment. For each espresso of our line-up we provide a recipe that works well for us.

Preparation in a portafilter (general rules of thumb)

Step by step instructions

1. Take the portafilter out of your brew group and rinse the group briefly.
2. Place your clean and dry portafilter on a scale and tare it.
3. Grind the desired amount of coffee (dose) into your portafilter.
4. Distribute the ground coffee evenly in the sieve, you can use your finger here or a distributor.
5. When tamping, it is important to apply pressure vertically to the coffee to ensure even compaction. It is also important to apply pressure only once to avoid channeling.
6. Remove any coffee residue from the edge of the screen.
7. Start your shot as soon as you place the portafilter in the group.
8. Stop your shot when your target yield is reached.
9. When there’s no more coffees to make, empty, clean and dry your portafilter, flush the group and place the portafilter back into the group to ensure it stays hot.

Troubleshoot

We love the ceremony of coffee brewing, but sometimes it has to be simple and quick.

Fully automated coffee makers excel as a saviour in the early morning or when serving many guests, not to forget the small coffee breaks in the office.

If you make espresso and cappuccino with your machine, we would like you to explore our espresso section.

If an allrounder or simply: just good coffee, that does not require any contemplation, our coffee blends are perfect for you.

In order to assure that you don't have bitter mornings from now on, we'd like to give you a few tips and tricks:

With fully automated coffee makers, hygiene is key! If you don't like your coffee machine to be the home of all sorts of mould and fungi, we recommend to you to clean it regularly. The coffee grounds ans the milk steaming system especially are important to clean thoroughly.

If you get a rather light and pale crema with a sour taste in the cup, adjust the grind setting a bit finer, then, you can get more out of your coffee. If your machine seems to struggle and you get a bitter cup of coffee with a very dark crema and an even darker rim, the grind setting likely is too fine. Set it a bit coarser, so that you extract less bitterness into your cup and your coffee should improve!

If changing the grind setting doesn't seem to do the job, look at the dosing. With a good dose of coffee, the pucks in the ground bin should be compact and remind you slightly of an ice hockey puck.

In case the coffee grounds are wet and lose, increase the dose. If the pucks seem to be almost completely dry, it is too much coffee for the machine to handle – it should help to reduce the dose a bit.

Now have fun with experimenting, dialing in and enjoying your coffee!

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