jetlib.sec » Tags » espresso

Whether you take it as a single shot or a double, a great Barista want’s to know the details on what’s happening with the espresso machine. [Tobi] was happily generating the morning cup when he realized that the needle-thermometer on his machine wasn’t working any longer. Instead of shelling out a lot of money for [...]

Tags:  espresso machine caffeine espresso-machine barista single-shot cooking hacks  

The heat sensor in [Cameron]‘s espresso machine doesn’t work very well. He sees some pretty crazy variations in temperature when pulling an espresso shot, and when the boiler is just sitting there the heater element will heat the water full-bore then shut off for a while. Since this is a pretty low bar from a [...]

Tags:  kitchen machine espresso espresso-machine heater-element heat-sensor cooking hacks  

For those of us that would like a good cup of coffee but don’t want to put up with the ‘burnt butt’ taste of Starbucks and don’t have a decent coffee shop nearby, we’ve had very few options. Most of us have been made to suffer with an el-cheapo espresso machine. [Joe] sent in a great [...]

Tags:  machine coffee espresso joe decent-coffee espresso-machine good-cup-of-coffee cooking hacks  

For [Roy's] graduate electronics class, he decided to make something that many in and out of the hacking world would certainly love, an automatic espresso loader.  One can choose from three flavors available. In order to accomplish this, a Parralax Propeller board is used to control three servos that regulate the amount of coffee dispensed, [...]

Tags:  espresso automatic loader roy three-flavors night-hack automatic-espresso cooking hacks