Ihave owned my Gaggia Classic espresso machine for over three years now. It is used to make two to four cups daily . I owned my own very busy coffee shop for years and this machine offers the opportunity to use your own skills to create coffee to suit your taste.
The unit uses standard 58 mm filters in a commercial grade group handle made of heavy-duty marine-grade brass with chrome plating to provide ample room for brewing rich,full espresso.
It has commercial-grade stainless steel construction a high-power 17-1/2-bar pump with a high-voltage boiler for quick warm-up times.
The Gaggia Classic is supplied with single- and double-shot stainless-steel filter baskets, coffee tamper, and 7-gram measuring scoop. Its 72-ounce water reservoir is removable for easy filling or cleaning.
The steam arm comes with a frothing unit but i quickly discarded this because of cleaning and lack of control although if you are a novice the frother works very well.I contacted the Gaggia importer and they kindly sent me an extended steam arm so I could control the frothing of milk myself. I can create my own Latte and cappuccino now.
My machine has been extremly reliable I accredit this to the superb build quality and I always cool and quickly clean the machine after every use while my milk is settling. I was talking to my local coffee machine repair man recently and he suggested the Gaggia Classic as the best Home Coffee Maker even before he knew I owned one.
A very simple to use robust machine the Gaggia Classic will complement any Kitchen so long as you like stainless steel appliances. No other colour option available as far as I know.
You can match and more likley beat the quality of coffee from your local coffee shop with this great little best coffee maker.
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Friday Aug 28, 2009
An environmental revolution in coffee-roasting is about to arrive in Britain - the machine promoted as ‘the greenest coffee roaster in the world’ will be launched in the UK during the first week of October.
Coffee roasting, while an extremely skilled process, has always suffered from its environmental image. It creates a vast amount of smoke, and a very distinctive smell - most ‘industrial’ roasters have had to contend with objections from their neighbours, and ‘roaster-retailers’, the shops who roast small quantities of coffee on retail premises, have suffered a particularly high number of complaints.
The answer, according to the Loring Smart Roast company from California, is its new Kestrel 35 machine, which will be distributed across Europe through a new company, Smart Roast Europe, formed by Chris Glossop and Steve Penk, the two men who brought La Spaziale espresso machines to the UK.
An energy survey by Pacific Gas and Electric in the States has concluded that the Smart Roast system uses only 20% of the energy required by a conventional roasting machine of a comparable size, and the target for the new European company is to persuade coffee roasters to upgrade to a cleaner and more economical system.
Technically, there are certain major differences. In a conventional drum-roaster machine, the coffee beans are placed in a drum which rotates, rather like a cement-mixer, in heat. This, says Smart Roast, is too energy-intensive, and so it has devised a system whereby the drum remains in one place, and an internal paddle agitates the beans.
Many conventional roasters use an ‘afterburner’ to burn-off particulates in the exhaust to achieve cleaner emissions. This, says Smart Roast, is an expensive, environmentally-damaging and inefficient solution, because the afterburner can use six times as much fuel as the bean-roasting process itself, and consequently produces up to six times as much carbon dioxide. In the Smart Roast, there is no afterburner, but the exhaust is re-circulated within the machine and burns off its own waste.
There is also a claim that the machine works on a lower-oxygen basis than conventional roasters, and that there is a distinct improvement in coffee taste as a result.
It is also suggested that significant grants are available to assist in the purchase of such equipment.
The Loring Smart Roast will be demonstrated to the trade at James’ Gourmet Coffee roastery in Ross-on-Wye over the first weekend of October. Places are by invitation, enquiries to 01246 454400.
Here’s how it works: basically, a webcam attached to the coffee machine detects when the text on its display screen changes and sends the image to a computer, where it is matched with images in a database. When a match is found (which succeeds most of the time but not always, depending on how good the light is), a status update is automatically sent to the Blankomat Twitter account. The whole thing was set up by a 16-year old intern of the agency, probably when he had too much coffee.
Useful? no. Cool? Depends on who you ask, but it just goes to show to what lengths people will go to find a use for Twitter these days.
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Tuesday Jan 20, 2009
In my opinion, there is not a better way to start out the day than with a nice cup of coffee. Now there are several ways to go about getting this delightful beverage into a mug for drinking. They range from using *shudder* instant brands of freeze-dried coffee to high-end espresso machines that are so complex it looks as if they might even do your laundry. However, the two most popular ways of making coffee are drip-brewing and the coffee press.
It certainly easy to make coffee in a drip-brew machine, but you loose out on some of what I think makes coffee a great beverage. The process of actually making coffee. So for me, using a coffee press is the ideal way to make that wonderful beverage each morning.
Over the years, the coffee press has had a number of names. Theyve been called Coffee Plungers, cafetière à piston, melior, and cafetière. No matter the name, the device is the same. A metal or glass cylinder with a plunging device equipped with a metal mesh. Coffee grounds are placed at the bottom of the container and off-boil water is added. Four minutes later, the coffee is ready. Simply press the plunger to the bottom to secure the coffee grounds out of the way.
It may seem like a lot of work, but its well worth it. You see when using a drip-brew system, a filter is required. The paper or mesh system traps the coffee beans essential oils and distorts its true taste. Brewing coffee in water releases these oils for a fuller flavor.
The other benefit of using a coffee press is that it can be used to make tea. Now I personally recommend having separate presses for coffee and tea, as some residual flavor from the coffee may spill over, but it isnt necessary. After steeping your tea bags, or preferably loose leaf tea, you press the plunger down to stop the brewing process.
gaggia cappuccino x2 video
Is it a Gaggia espresso or is it a Guiness?
making of a double espresso shot with Gaggia classic. Just another test, nothing serious at all.
A Double Cappucino is a delicious coffee drink that’s easy to make. Watch our barista show you how in this video.
In my opinion, there is not a better way to start out the day than with a nice cup of coffee. Now there are several ways to go about getting this delightful beverage into a mug for drinking. They range from using *shudder* instant brands of freeze-dried coffee to high-end espresso machines that are so complex it looks as if they might even do your laundry. However, the two most popular ways of making coffee are drip-brewing and the coffee press.
From Home-Barista.com’s “Buyer’s Guide to the Gaggia Achille”.
A Single Cappucino is a delicious coffee drink that’s easy to make. Watch our barista show you how in this video.
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