I have watched scores of videos on how to pull a better shot - and gone through a couple of pounds of Black Cat trying to figure it all out. This is the first one that has been about learning by what's actually going on by seeing it in the shot. It has been a huge help. Thank you.

Thank you! Super helpful. I am a beginner and just got a la pavoni professional and I am struggling to get the perfect shot. Thanks for your help!

That was a guide for the past century Today's guide is to weight the yield

This is an immensely useful video for beginners.

Not sure I saw it when overextraction started.

It looks like over extraction is complete when the stream becomes translucent. If you look very closely, the stream turns from opaque light tan to a translucent light tan. It looks like colored water pouring out from that point on. Not coffee.

Love it! Great resource. There could be more about bottomless (naked) portafilter since coffee geeks use them more often.

The flow rate is more important than the color of the crema. I don't get hung up over crema and blonding. I follow the brew ratio, taste the espresso and make any adjustments as needed.

I see the light tan colour, but he lets this flow for a while, and that interval/period is not clear to me

Very visually educating. Thanks!

When using the ratio, scale and timer, you miss out on the flow, because your eyes are focused on timer and scale. Next level after you get all those right then you need to watch the flow! It tells you a lot! It is the next level!

Brilliant barista training video!

that's awesome explanation...well done

Great visuals! Thanks!

👍Great video. Thank you 🇮🇹☕️💪🏽

Great video, very helpful, you learn this by experience.

Would also be great to see a bad shot (light tamp vs hard tamp)

Great info for a duffo like me probably better than all this weighing malarkey

Better to time, weigh, and taste rather than “reading” by looking at something subjective like colour.

this is true for a vibratory pump machine with a constant pressure. what about lever machines with a falling pressure profile? Or what we've learned since 2016?

I use a double spout but it runs unevenly so that I have about 70 % liquid in one espresso cup and 30 % in the other. What can I do about it

I love the frowny face.

Does Intelligentsia still use the blinding process to judge extraction? More and more coffee shops are using scales. Scales help insure consistency... that being said, I've had some incredible coffee from intelligentsia

Can this kind of shot be done on a cheap expreso machine?

Great shooting but this background music so anoying, better something relaxing when doing this videos

How many shots died to make this video?

I'm about to give up on the non-pressurised basket...I recently got 1 for my Delonghi dedica 685 but the coffee seems to always come out under-extracted (around 18 seconds exctraction, thin crema that dissipates fast). I tried everything: tamping harder, grinding finer, dosing 7-8-9 grams (I'm using a single basket). The beans are freshly roasted too. I thought the problem could be my grinder (Ariete grinder pro) not being able to grind finde enough, so I asked my local coffee shop to grind it for me: same results. Any last tips before I give up and go back to pressurised basket?

Mine starts at completely black, without any streaks. Something wrong about that?

Perfection of espresso

Beautiful

Very helpful, thank you.

its amazing

good info, could use a different music next time, this one is too noisy...

Good video, but that naked portafilter shot was terribly distributed and actually should've come through into a single stream through the middle, rather than multiple streams at the same time.

Well produced and informative video...could do without the music...eek!

The horrific music really accentuates the video

Not enough time to read the comments and watch what was being talked about.

My ears are ringing

Why do we watch the flow of the espresso? Plz answer me

really, are you sure!

Great

Headache music trying To get proper crema

are you sure you gave us the right thing

Not an instructional video; it is just a song. Dislike.

I can’t get freshly roasted Intelligensia in my local Whole Food’s It’s always at least a month old Are they too busy making KZfaq videos?

the background music is distracting and too loud.

Good video but music Sucks!

I do not think u quite an efficiency giving us a right way, there are so many unprofessional peoples tried to feed us in another way, which is completely not right

awful musica ! les informatif video