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You got my like, however, I think you should have named your channel The Headless Barista.

He is a very systematic and structure person by looking at the way how he present the case. No nonsense and straight to the point, orderly very crisps ! This is the channel I will never miss.

You explained the difference so well!!! I’m a complete newbie to express world and your channel has helped me learn tremendously!! Thank you!!!

I gotta say with as much hate as the pressurized filter gets. It can actually be useful in some situations. The burr coffee grinder I have was the best overall that I could find at the time and it made more sense for pour over and french press. But as I've gotten into espresso, it is definitely holding me back. The lower grind settings it struggles with. Either it struggles to grind or doesn't grind at all, the grind is inconsistent, or over time the grind size get's bigger over time as if it's loose or having trouble staying in place. It only does this with the lower settings btw. Some days I can only get 1 out of 3 double shots perfect, as I got to get everything else PERFECT to compensate for the bigger grind size. So until I get a new coffee grinder, I have to say that the pressurized filter definitely does compensate. Like others have said, due to the increase in pressure. You might not want to tamper it down quite as hard. Pressurized filter can definitely be useful. Plus it can help get more consistent good shots or be useful when you just wake up and are in a hurry.

Thank you for giving me the courage to.use my non pressurized filter. I’d been giving it the side eye like it was a ferocious dog behind an electric fence. Used it this morning, and my espresso was perfect. Also thanks to videos on dosing and tamping.

A short and useful explanation that gets right to the point. I loved this channel. 👍

I really appreciate you mentioning the pressurized basket for when you just can't get a finer grind. Didn't occur to me to do that with my barista express

When I have stale, dry beans, I'll use the pressurized basket. Tried it today and was very pleased, I'll go back to non pressurized when I have better beans

Delonghi makes a portafilter with a Spring loaded valve check and its a great design. It fixes the problem of fake crema from liquid spraying out the single hole in the bottom of the basket causing aeration and foaming.

thanks mate! i just bought an espresso machine and now im discovering this big world of filters, accesories, beans etc..

I am a huge fan of your videos. I have a Barista Express and I cannot get my shots in the right zone. I put in 18g coffee and use all the fancy tools. I then have too options. Coffee that runs through too fast or very over extracted coffee. I never get anything in the middle. Your advice is gratefully received.

Scenario 3 - Your second hand Dualit 3in1 espresso machine for £80, came with perssurised baskets only, so thats all you have, it works and makes tasty coffee.

He said it could be frustrating using the single wall......he is right. Wanted to take a bat to this thing I was getting so frustrated. THen the rep I bought it from explained it again AND directed me to the massive amount of videos for this machine. No other espresso machine has more of a devoted following. Was able to watch the videos and now I pull a perfect shot everytime. Oh....and I have literally saved several hundred dollars not having to go to coffee shops anymore. Wife is very happy Oh...and his videos are some of the best by far to learn your Breville. Highly recommend using non-pressurized and the tamper in the description is a must.

This is a pretty sweet run down of this topic. Well done!

This is so interesting! I have owned a Breville Barista Express for 6-7 years, and have been using it daily for 5-6 years. Absolutely love it, a great start to the day. That said, mine just failed (steam comes out the portafilter hole). I was on the phone with Breville today, and while a repair is possible, I noticed the bottom label says it was Refurbished. I don't remember where I bought it from, and I don't recall knowing it was a refurb...so, I picked up a new one today on sale at Crate & Barrel. Add to this my son just bought a used model, so have been thinking about it more lately and decided to check KZfaq. This was mostly triggered when I noticed my new model came with the single-wall double-shot basket pre-installed into the portafilter. I have been using the double-walled basket (2-shot) the entire time (!) I use good locally fresh roasted beans by Dunn Brothers. I get a mix of Espresso Roast + Decaf Columbian Roast. That way, I can occasionally have two double-shot drinks and not get goofy on the caffeine. I will admit ignorance on the single-wall vs double-wall thinking. I will definitely try the single-wall basket going forward. I'm also going to order the Precision Basket Upgrade, and possibly the Palm Tamper.

I use to use the pressurised basket, now I've got the bottomless portafilter and multi holed basket.... there is a huge difference between them... the latter being prefered...

The non-pressurized basket might be the best for double shots but that's too strong for me and I only drink single shots. I don't know how much coffee I wasted trying to perfect shots using the non-pressurized single basket but the pressurized basket is definitely the way to go for single shots on Breville machines.

Just got my Duo Temp today and this helped a lot! I don't have a grinder that goes fine enough, so it's nice to know I can still build pressure until my proper grinder arrives in a week.

Very helpful thank you! I accidentally put the dual walled basket in my porta filter by mistake, and was wondering why it was making a hissing sound all of a sudden! This explained why! Thank you!

The double wall baskets have a life to them. They get gummed up inside. Most people buy a new one after a year. The double wall makes your coffee like a Nespresso. It works great. Coffee tastes great. Beautiful crema. The resistance is a paradigm shift. This is similar to when the lever was removed from espresso machines. Today we still use the term pulling a shot despite the missing lever. Another example is the move from a boiler to an instant heating of the water. The purists love how their machine warms cups. They even prefer the taste of 200 degree water from a boiler… So not weighing every shot, not testing every bag of beans, not dialing in your water amount and not having a heavy tamper is a paradigm shift.

Very useful, thanks! When my old LaPavoni died, I bought a new Breville. But the coffee with the old machine tasted better. You offered the explanation and the solution - buy a new filter cup!

Lifestyle Lab, your videos are absolute the most perfectly informative, thought out, knowledgeable videos that youtube needs to always provide. I'd love to see you do videos on many other things too! Anyway, I'm not really a coffee drinker, but my Colombian fiance is since the age of 5. She cheats every morning by using the pressurized double basket. I've shown her your dialing in video, this one, and how to change the internal grinder settings too, yet she repeatedly says "I'm happy so I'm not going to figure out that other way." I have tried your dialing in and am using the tamper provided with the machine. Each time, I failed to pull a good shot. I think I literally went through every setting. Out of frustration, I haven't tried the internal grind settings yet and quit. My question to you today is this: do you feel that getting the palm tamper will be the final step in my dialing in process and I'll finally be pulling that perfect shot every time? What does one do when all else fails (this is for the other people going through every setting and failing like me)? And this one is for my Colombian fiance: How much better, truly, is that shot of non pressured espresso? Thanks so very much for the time to help all of us!

I was so frustrated, since I just got my dio boiler, and in the first trial I used a pressurize filter, I saw my shot Amazing since the beginning 😍😍😍, then I got the magical idea to change a non pressurize ((with non idea what I was doing), then all my expresaos are horrible 😤, I was not able to get a decent one anymore. Now I know why, really thanks. Because of you I make my mind with bee ills dou boiler now thanks to you I know that I suck tampering 🙈 I will improve thanks a lot

Thanks! I was waiting for this video so bad, I have BBE for a year now and I’m still feel intimidated by using non-pressurized.

best run down i've seen so far, thumbs up.

Great, simple uncomplicated explanation, thank you

Hey brother. Great channel. Great info. I agree with the headless comment. It's actually pretty effective. I know you're probably not doing it for the same reason, but early in my film production school days, we were asked to make such videos. I never liked looking at or hearing myself so I masked my voice and filmed shoulder down. People though that was stupid but it gave me confidence to at least create a authentic presentation just by being in the frame. Anyways, it works.

Thank you for requiring a promise to learn how to do it right..

Now I know why my espresso is more foamy instead of creamy. Thank you.

Super crystal clear explanation and nice video!

Excellent Concise and To The Point, Easily Understood Instructions and Examples! Bravo and I'm Subscribed with Full Bells On! Keep up the Great work!

Thanks for a clear and helpful explanation!

This morning I made an accidental beverage on a pressurised basket, the "accidenta" was, because I change basket every grind I just got distracted, the crema had a bigger head than a schooner of beer haha, Bro from Australia

I gave up using the pressurized filter because it gets clogged often. I have actually found the unpressurized filter much easier to use or maybe I just learnt how to make a better coffee. Lol

Thanks! I really like the DeLonghi ‘La Specialista but the fact that it only offers pressurized baskets will probably push me away from it and over to Breville. I'm keeping an eye on their site for the return of the refurbished Oracles

Thank you. I've found myself watching a lot of your espresso videos - thank you for your passion and information.

Hello and thanks for this great video. I only have pressurized Espresso Filters for now. I noticed that the brew time is faster. What are the rules for a pressurized Espresso Filters in term of brew time and ratio?

I am both in those two scenarios. But I promise to change this month.

@Lifestyle Lab. Excellent Concise and To The Point; Easily Understood Instructions and Examples! Bravo and I'm Subscribed with Full Bells On! Keep up the Great work!

Thanks, very well explained

Thank you!

There is one more reason to own/use a pressurized basket that does not get mentioned: to test your machine. If you are constantly getting low pressure with your non-pressurized basket, you can put in the pressurized basket with no coffee in it and run the machine to test if you are getting pressure that way. If so, then your grind and tamping are probably at fault. If not, then you know your machine needs service.

3rd reason: you don’t want an espresso but a full-bodied coffee without the overly present bitterness of overextracted espresso (lungo) so you can grind coarses and still get a very good cup of coffee in decent volume.

Totally needed this video. Thank you so much!

I have ordered a pressurized portafilter for my second-hand rok. I dont have an adequate grinder and will likely be saving up for a new, or of i find one, used rok grinder. Till then I will just have to make do with the not quite fine enough coffee i can currently do.

I respectfully challenge you to do a blind test both with pure espresso and with a cappuccino or latte. While I could be wrong, I think there’s a lot of snobbery and insecurity and going along with the crowd when it comes to coffee. Prove me wrong or prove me right. Thanks much.

Great video, very informative. I recently purchased a Eureka Mignon Silenzio grinder to go with my Gaggia Classic (2019) and I'm still trying to find the best grind level using the non-pressurized basket with varying degrees of success. I also purchased a VST 20g basket but not having great success with that so I'm persevering with the Gaggia basket for now. There's such a lot of information out there about all these issues - it can get a little confusing! I saw one video of someone explaining that the pressure applied to tamping should not make a difference to extraction but others say it does? On top of that, I guess the quality and freshness of the beans also can make a difference? Still, at the end of the day, all we want is a decent cup of coffee and so far I think I am mostly achieving that. For the Caffe Nero Brazilian blend I was using I set the grind around 2 but since changing to another brand level 2 seems to be too fine - it took a good 40 seconds plus to get a decent amount of espresso. But taste-wise, to me it was ok, not perfect but ok.

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How many grams coffee do we put inside and what should be the net result in pressurized basket? We've tried the non-pressurised as per your dialing in video (putting in 18grams trying get 36 grams out of it, goes to 1 o'clock on pressure) but we've been getting varying output/seconds each time. Maybe we should start with pressurised and then move on to non-p.

This explains so much! My situation is unique, because a friend was trying to be helpful and got me some Starbucks beans, but had them ground “for espresso” which is very fine. I’ve been using the dual wall filter (because it is technically pre-ground), but I think in this case I should probably be using a single wall because it is ground for espresso, right?

Well, considering that in my country good coffee costs a lot, i preffer to use commercial coffee instead and with the help of my double wall basket, i drink a coffee better than those who sell at vendor coffee machines or automatic espressor

No one told me that for non pressurized basket you have to spend 10 times more money then coffee machine itself to get grinder 🤦 to enjoy that flavor. And pressurized baskets works with portafilters which have plastic in it which can leak microplastic too your coffee so I'm trying avoid thesy portafilters. Now I don't know what to do spend 400$ + for grinder or sell coffee machine.

I don’t know, but i like the fact you don’t show face at this video..maybe it helps focusing and digest the subject.

Both vids very helpful, thank you! I have a question, hope you can help. I got only pressurized filters with my Smeg machine and it appears that they are difficult to clean as the top and bottom parts (the one with a small hole) are not separable, or are they? If you know what is best way to disassemble the press filters I would be very grateful for advice. Many thanks 😊

Is the double walled basket best for small quantities of coffee? Say 8gr? Difficult to tamper properly.

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I have a question. Can you use a low end Espresso maker (not with a bottomless portafilter) with a non-pressurized basket with the stock portafilter? I have the Cuisinart EM100C. I am curious to test it to see the difference.

So how do we measure the filter to know what size basket we have, I know a 51mm tamper appears to fit nicely, does that mean I search for 51mm non-pressurized system? I grind my own very fine and have a distribution tool and tamper... new to this, been using mine 1 year without any actual cleaning, today the double pressurized filter stopped working, soaking in vinegar in hopes it passes brew again as I do a double double into a coffee mug for my daily caffeine buzz.. both passes same cup of grinds...

I just got a non pressurized and I find it gives me a powder feel in the espresso, I tried different grind size and it’s the same is that normal or what I’m doing wrong…

I'm a newbie and I know the difference between single walled and dual walled filters but you didn't explain how to use them. I especially want to know how to use the pressurized dual walled filter basket. No-one ever shows how to use those baskets.

is there a scenario where i could use a single wall basket without a grinder? i usually get my coffee beans from a roastery where i ask them to grind them for me

want to ask. can you use a non pressurized portafilter in a pressurized coffee machine ? i have a pressurized portafilter and want to change it to non pressurized.

What happens if you use fine ground coffee in pressurized basket?

Great videos. Does the pressure Guage still rise to the optimal level when using a non pressurized basket? At the moment I am not getting a pressure when brewing. But coffee is still coming out.

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please help! is any filter basket suitable for every espresso machine? mine comes with a pressurised basket, but is it okay for me to change it to a non-pressurised one? will it damage the machine? or will it only affect the espresso?

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I'm a newbie but wanna go straight for the non pressurized. Got a recommend setting for now to where I can adjust later? I'm getting the barista pro this Saturday

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A pressurized basket is only offered on low end espresso machines. Otherwise don't even start using a pressurized basket. Like everyone first learning. Make a few months of the worse coffee ever to properly learn how to weigh, tamp and time the shot. The results will be rewarding.

So you mean that if i decide to use pre-ground espresso coffee like Illy, i will have to use the pressurized basket ? it won't work with the regular one ?

Hi. I have the Breville Barista Touch. Can you please tell me the proper amount (grams) of pre-ground coffee to put in the baskets. I use Illy Intenso. Is 18gms for the large basket and 9gms for the small basket correct, or can it be 19gms for the large and 10gms for the small?

I have been using a pressurized basket since a few years and recently tried a non pressurized after getting a burr grinder and some more advanced accessories but nothing beats the pressurized basket so far .. any idea why I get almost twice as much liquid when using the non pressurized one ? Sounds like my puck has not enough resistance but i already pretty much maxed all (fine grind and compressed puck) .. i feel all i get is a stronger coffee but not less water

Thanks for the video I also have a same machine and my burr size is 3 and grind size is 6 Whenever i use pressurised basket my espresso becomes too bubbly and not good for lattee arts and if i use non pressurise basket the espresso shots comes too fast but that’s better than pressurised basket for lattee art but not perfect shot Conclusion: is my burr size and grind size is correct or i need to something else? Please answers will be appreciated Thanks

If you were to use a pressurized filter. How coarse should you grind the coffe or does it matter at all ?

Hi! wich grind setting would you use with a comandante grinder for de presurized portafilter? how many clicks? or is it like moka pot coarse? pleace! help me! :D

Tysm I’ve been going crazy about my machine I thought it was broke I couldn’t get to make coffee right or froth milk.. I’m still concerned tho when I put the tablet in to clean it doesn’t pour out spout the coffee spout or it barely uses any of the tablet. Only a little water goes in the overflow from it back flushing I guess. Is this normal during cleaning your machine w tablet? I feel like that why my light won’t turn off and I’m having bad results because it won’t clean properly please help me if you know/can thank you for this video it was so helpful

So with pre ground coffee, always use the double wall filter?! Or can you use the single wall as well?!

Is it possible to do a good shot with the nonpressurized using a blade grinder? It's the only one I have right now D: been using a Delonghi dedica ec685 and a pressurized basket for months now, but I kinda wanna switch to non-pressurized after hearing that it would taste better/richer.

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What about when you’re super lazy and want to use ESE pods? I use a pressurized basket.

This is great video to explain the difference, but I have question. What about machines have high pressure like mine ? I have the new Delonghi La specialista with 19 bar and I struggled with Naked baskets. I had to fell the basket and tamp it very hard to get nice even extraction other wise it goes so fast due to the high pressure of the machineitself. I don't know if what im doing is right.

Hi. I've tried many times Non Pressurized filter but i cant get crema :( I tested a few brands of coffee but almost the same result - no crema or very tiny. Can you recommend some European brand coffee, please?

Hi there, could you share the brand of coffee bean you used? thanks

I have that machine and I'm struggling can you show me more videos please

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I' m struggling to clean my pressurized "single" coffee pressurized filter! Not even a single drop of liquid fall from it :( How can I clean it?

When using a non-pressurised baskets, isn't it same as say a pour over coffee?

So say i buy blonde espresso beans at starbucks and have the barista grind them for me on espresso grind. I can use the unpressurized basket right?

@lifestyle Lab you mention in this video about grinding fine but when using the single double basket and going on the manual if the pressure gage is way over it advises you to grind coarser? ( less fine )

Hi so I've tried to use a non pressurized bottomless portafilter but I can't seem to get any pressure building up on the pressure gauge on the Sage Barista Express. However when I use the pressurized basket the pressure gauge is perfect?

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When to use pressurised basket : basically never lol. I tried it several times just to see, the result is alway disgusting

Thanks for the video. I'm still in process of learning how to properly distribute and tamp my puck, so far I'm still getting bad results with the non pressurized basket and I suspect is something also related to my grind. Could you please share you grind settings (including the internal cone setting). Regards

I bought a bottomless basket for my Gaggia Classic Pro and got the 9 bar spring. I just can't enjoy the flavors I get. Most of the time it's this bitter/sour flavor and I just don't like it.

You are saying non pressurized is better. Why do you say that? Does it taste different?

Stay with Pressurized! Stay away from pre ground pressurized.