Naked Coffee Porn

The coffee sprayed out of the bottom of the basket, it only did it once, I am guessing I didn't tap down enough and the water got underneath the coffee. It seems more reliable with decent oily fresh beans than with cheaper beans.

I never have a problem with the standard portafilter, only the naked one that did it.

I'm surprised at the amount of coffee I seem to be using, I had family round at the weekend and between 3 of us coffee drinkers we got through about 250g of beans. My brother and my Dad both went home with ideas of buying an Espresso machine.
 
Got my naked portafilter for my gaggia baby however so far i only get coffee showers. Coffee is spayed out of the bottom of the filter. What do i do wrong? Thanks.
 
Spurters are due puck inconsistency and that is usually caused by uneven tamping or over-dosing, another difficulty is that as you don't grind your own so it's difficult to match or adjust the grind to suit your beans/machine.
 
ch2700 said:
I get my coffee grinded from handsoncoffee.

Your coffee is stale by the time you use it. That's why is spraying all over the place.

To get the very best out of your gaggia you will have to spend more money on a quality grinder. An Ibertial MC2 at the very least and then you'll need to use coffee that's been recently roasted (less than ~ 3 weeks). Those are the two key factors: freshly ground coffee, recently roasted. No other way round it I'm afraid
 
Lose the beard said:
Thanks, I was wondering at what point I should stop the shot, that helps. The following shot I made was a disaster, I just sprayed coffee all around the kitchen :s

Looking forward to the coffee and having some proper espresso cups. :D

Just catching up on this thread. Great photos. What sort of lighting set up did you use? Shot looks nice but a little fast (the cone gets quite large). It also blonds towards the end. The best way to judge when to stop your shot is weight. Buy a cheap set of jewellery scales off amazon (accurate to 0.1g) they're really cheap and a great investment if your getting hooked. Weigh the coffee going in (probably about 15-16g in a standard double basket. 18g+ in a triple. You can then put the scales under your cup when pulling your shot. Aim for 1.6x the weight of coffee in. This is better than volume as it can be hard to judge when there's a lot of crema- happens a lot with a naked pf.
 
Coffee porn indeed! Coffee cannot look any sexier than when you see that golden-brown crema oozing out of a naked portafilter.
Seeing these pictures makes me giddy like a schoolgirl at the thought that my newly acquired Gaggia Classic is set to arrive within the next 48 hours :D
 
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