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Sorry not coffee related! Also although it's been delivered I won't be home to use it for a couple of weeks 😕 Can't wait to fire it up when I get home!!

How about a la pavoni and a decent hand grinder?

Do you give the grinds a good stir/shake either in the cup or portafilter? Just an edit to say that's only relation to your drips appearing faster even though you tightened the grind.

A little experiment. Anyone else tried drying out their starter?

This is something I never knew!

How long are everyone's Londinium seals lasting? I'm at around 10 months and when I pulled the piston out for a clean earlier this week they looked as good as new

Zwilling! Thats the one I couldn't remember the name of!

Victorinox, alessi, Sabatier are all good options. See if you have a home sense near you as it's always worth having a rummage around in there

I guess everyone is different, I'm more than happy to clean and regrease every 3-4 months. I feel better knowing that everything has had a nice clean

Anyone else got an Ooni Karu coming in the next couple of weeks?

I'm available. Not far from Leeds and have some big flat burrs well that's if 83mm is big enough for you Happy to have you over but I'm going away soon so it'll have to be after 8 Feb if you don't mind waiting till then?

I got about the same with mine & that was with using them for 99% of kitchen duties (the 3kg limit comes in handy). Same here. Mine have taken a battering too and still going strong!

These are the ones I got Brifit Digital Kitchen Scales, (3kg, 0.1g) Mini Food Scales, Electric Cooking Scales with 2 Trays, Back-Lit LCD Display, Tare and PCS Features, for Ingredients, Jewelry, Coffee, Chiristmas Gift https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01DGLFVS0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9AnhEbGWRC2NC They are probably exactly the same as the ones you mentioned with different branding. But my batteries lasted about 9 months

This made me chuckle

Same. Can't remember how much it was but I remember thinking this is damn expensive for a little bit of lube! Guess it'll probably last the life of the machine