Category: DE1
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Espresso Water Flow Part 1: Dispersion, Puck Screens and Baskets
Truth be told, this post was going to be split into three parts, one each for the namesake accessories in the title. But before I went about making plots, I reached out to Jonathan Gagné to check if I could trouble him to take a look at my data and find any shortcomings with it.…
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Espresso water flow Part 0: Workflow
Skepticism is a weird deal. Too much can stunt innovation and too little can, well, lead to too many pocket theories. Lance Hedrick is among the few who seems to take a balanced approach based on both data and experience. So when I claimed in my debut post that Decent’s new dispersion block design was…
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Temperature gradient across an espresso puck
I sometimes think the concept of espresso exists to trick us into thinking that perfection can exist, only to have reality handed to us on a plate to humble us. That’s the best way I can summarize the events that led to this post. As the photo above might tell you, I stuck a temperature…
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Birth of Turbobloom and Extractamundo!
EDIT: Yang Luo kindly translated this post to Chinese and can be accessed here. When Cameron et. al. released their peer-reviewed paper on turbo shots, it kinda took the espresso world by storm. It was controversial in a very interesting sense. The science behind it (by the standards of a lot of coffee literature) was…
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SSP-MP 64mm burrs in The Frankenjolly
A problematic thing about being involved in discussions with DE1 owners is that you are bound to have a lot of FOMO. The shiniest and latest is always on display and there’s always the question of whether or not you’re getting “the best possible”. The “what” of “the best possible” can be anything from the…
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DE1 Teflon Grouphead Shower Upgrade
A while ago, Ricco (officially the nicest person in the Decent user community), reached out to me saying he heard from John Buckman (Decent’s owner) about prototype teflon grouphead shower parts being available for purchase. This is significant in a number of ways. On the surface, as written by Decent’s official channel, the pieces theoretically…
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