Breville Barista Express vs Kalita Wave 185 Dripper

I don't think this is essential for a latte, but if you drink espresso your first cup will be lukewarm unless you let the machine fully heat up (which is long after all the lights are on). - The default recommended settings on the grinder are working like a charm, so we probably won't mess with them much. We are using whole bean Starbucks espresso. - The manual doesn't explain the grinder mechanism very well

I recently bought a Kalita Wave 185, and besides the very first cup I made, all of the other ones have been terrible, even undrinkable. I've probably brewed 20 cups with it and they've all been pretty bad. Using the Coffee Compass, I'd say that they've all been a combination of under AND over extracted, even in the same cup - just kind of all over the place. Lots of **sour,** **astringent,** **watery,** **bland,** and **bitter,** tastes

Buying those same 62 drinks at Sbux would have cost $415 (not count tip I always leave so actually closer to $500 for 62 triple venti Ice lattes at Sbux costing nearly $7 each + tip. So I figure I when just considering supplies I used $30 in beans and syrup and at around $4 per gallon, I have used maybe another $20 in Milk so $50 total in supplies about vs. around $500 for buying the drinks at Sbux including tip means I paying 10% what I used to and have saved $450 ($150 less than I paid for the machine) in a single month on the drinks for me and my daughter. As I started off saying, it does take me 15 minutes from start to finish of cleanup to make those two drinks but it could be half that without cleanup every time but I also never wait in a drive through line

Now the prices for one filter range from 21 to 26¢. You can buy 100 #4 drip coffee paper filter for less than $7.00. I know this is a very trivial amount of money, but i just don't like the feeling of getting gouged

Shot looked good, smelled good but had too much of an acidic sour taste to it still in my opinion. I’m using a breville barista express and filtered water, letting the porta filter heat up before and using a scale and timer for everything. Am I missing something else here to make the taste more enjoyable or maybe I’m just not a pure espresso drinker?

I rinse my filter in my plastic v60 or metal Kalita. For the former, my rinsing/heating process is relatively brief, as (thanks again Hoff!) plastic is thermally pretty sound. For the Kalita, though, I pour boiling water in a spiral with exactly 12 rotations. As I wait for that water to draw down, heating the dripper and removing unpleasant paper flavors from the filter, I return to my counter preparation, my tongue moistened by the anticipatory salivation triggered by the enticing aroma of the grounds and the slight twinge of pain from removing an eyebrow hair (with tweezers, of course--they're essential, and not a tool you want to scrimp on!)

The expectation for a great tasting espresso is quality water, give our well water source we purchase water for cooking and consumption. Would be nice if there was a better way to recover the dispensed water after use to be reused but since the tray also traps grounds, it's useless for reuse. For now I save this for watering plants.

I did 20 grams for both all the same. I started with a 60 gram bloom. I then followed that, after about 30 35 seconds, i went in for a hundred grand s...

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That makes coffee quite rich, deep flavor somewhat. You might like that. But if you are looking for clear taste as all wave dripper is originally made for, this need little work. You can put round screen or bent toothpicks on the bottom or adjust ground coarseness to make all 3 holes to work