That's funny. What's the deal? In Italy, 60 millions people believe that the single shot is the only shot and never heard of a double shot. And it's 7 gr by the way to pull out 25 ml

I've been a barista for almost 2 years now, all your video explains my doubts during work that no one else seems to care. This one and the grinder screen especially. 👍

Unpopular opinion: Single baskets are great! I love having perfect tasting espresso (with the right technique), more times a day and without increasing my caffeine intake to insane levels.

I use single IMS basket and get super consistency all the time, using full size 58mm tamper, on Silvia and also on Rocket R58 machines, with great results.

With Londinium lever machine, I'm using successfully VST 7g /15g baskets for single/double, filled with [in: 7g - out: 16g] and [in:14g - out: 30g].

my single spouted is great for my blind basket, 1/1 would back flush again

Hey, I have had this problem with 1 shot Basket for 6 months. you made me understand the world. Love Love from Thailand.

My machine came with one single and one double portafilter, which I assumed was normal. To combat the slant and ledge, we literally ground off the sharp corners of a tamp to perfectly fit our basket. It really does work, but I tend to instead fill the basket a tiny bit more, above the ledge and use my regular tamp a little more gently. I know those both sound terrible, but it actually brews very nicely with no channeling.

I would love to see a video on how to tamp for single baskets. I'm huge on never wasting coffee, so i would really like to use this at some point but i have yet to find a a decent tamping technique that works well consistently.

I really dislike the current direction that espresso is heading, and predict that--in 3-4 years time--we will be thinking about how to extract espresso differently. Much like how we spent years making shitty pour-overs, until extraction data forced either better technique or abandonment in favor of batch brew, I think that we'll all become exhausted by 20-22g doses of coffee into all our espresso drinks (not a perfect comparison). It's gross, and I'm really tired of it. Maybe I'm an old fogey (I am an old fogey), but I miss the days of being able to order a trad capp with a single espresso in it. Or a macchiato that doesn't have to be served in a gibraltar. Yeah, sure: we're abandoning Italian/Euro tradition in favor of a distinctly American style of making espresso and espresso-based drinks, and I dig that. I think, though, that we are losing a pleasant drinking experience in favor of EXTREME FUCKING AWESOME INTENSITY DON'T YOU DIG IT BRO ISN'T IT INSAAAAAAANE??!! Gonna go change my diaper and polish my walkin' cane now.

Never had success with a single basket until I got a Decent Espresso machine. I just started using a single basket for my standard americano. The single basket is from ECM and looks like a normal single basket. I fill the PF with 11g at a flow rate of 1.5s and it seems just fine. No breakout! I'll try 10g next. Grinding is all done with Ceado E6P. Had the Decent about 3 weeks and making espresso has never been so easy. It's quite shocking and repeatable shot after shot.

Hey man just wanted to say that I watch every one of your videos and love the content you put out. Keep it up man!!!

I’ve found that using a slightly convex tamper with my single basket allows me to get almost the exact same extraction as my double basket that I use a flat tamper with. It all comes down to having a level coffee bed before you tamp the single.

Hey, so what do you do when you are at home and want to make one single shot? From your video I gather you do not use single baskets. So take the double basket and throw away the second Espresso?

what do you think about pressurized single basket?

I only use the single shot basket on my Breville. Double shots give me the jitters. I use a bottomless portafilter, and it is often difficult to get a steady stream. It is strange that there is so little information/videos out there about single shots.

Haha nice one, my wife always wants a single so I split a double and throw the other in the fridge for the next day, those single baskets scare me, never pulled a decent shot. Ever!

I have the breville barista express and find single shots easier than double! I use 11 g and get 22 to 26 g in about 20 sec. w pressure needle straight up at 12 or just past that. I prefer singles for my cappuccino and 10 Oz lattes.

Why they don’t make a just shallower double basket, like half depth? I’d be the first to buy if it works as easily as the double one

In our shop we are using IMS single basket and taste of the espresso is somewhere else than from double but not everyone understands it and want double even when the price is 0,5€ higher for more complex taste, we hate it and customers don't care

Can i PLEASE get the link for this watch band. That bad boy looks so comfortable. I've searched high and low and can't find it anywhere. Thanks Chris.

So you're saying my single basket can stay in the drawer. A friend and I have been putting together a menu for our own shop one day and we have been puzzling over how to make drinks with only even numbered shots. A 2 shot regular and a 4 shot large seems to be either kind of big or a little too coffee heavy if we back off the milk.

Honestly great videos. So informative! 👏🏼👏🏼

hey chris, for a cortado at your shop or just maybe in general for most coffee shops keeping up with the trends, do you use/recommend a single shot of espresso taken from your typical double shot, or do you use do a ristretto shot or just your typical double shot as the base for it? And if you are just using a single shot for a cortado using the typical 18-20 gram basket, does that mean you throw out the other half of the shot typically? And I guess you would need a dual spout portafilter and not a naked portafilter for this? I'm guessing you use just a typical double shot unless someone specifies otherwise, but I'm just curious. SCAA/SCA recommends 1 shot I believe for a 6 ounce-ish Cap., so I'd imagine the same would hold for a Cortado via their standards.

Nice, always wondered about that. Now I can throw it away :D

Love those Commandante packages in the background :)

well i use 12 grams on 1 shot basket 27 secs i dunno if it s normal or not but it s working

Hey Chris, First off thanks for making another video explaining the ins and outs of whats happening with our extractions. I have a question... if i had 22g filter... whats would be the least amount of coffee i could put in it? Does it have to be as close to 22 as possible. I noticed in your video about the Pullman baskets you spoke about having more headroom... i assume this is to allow the coffee to swell more? Would more space in a 22g say dosed with 18g allow the water to pass through the coffee quicker than it would in a smaller basket.. 18g? What are your thoughts? Thanks, Jake

Liked before I even watched the video. I hope y’all have a nice day. Greetings from Germany!

Can we have a single basket with a straight wall like the double baskedt but just half the height?

Chris, this is why i love your vlogs. I use my single basket simply because i wanted less coffee in my cup but i had no idea about the inter-chageable nature of the double and single. Now..i do have a question about the single basket. When dialing espressos for a double shot basket they tell you first drop should be around 5-7 second mark. Is that the case with single shot baskets? Ive watched alot of naked portafilter single shot and the first drops seem to happen beteen 3-4 and in my experience that is the case also and for a while ivr been asking myself if this is the norm for single baskets or if my technique is faulty. Cheers

Super interesting!

have you used the single basket on the oracle touch? cuase im am using and found out the sweet spot cuse the extraction was off sometimes! and by the way i ordered the answer from you coffee shop and like it a lot! looking foward to try the other ones on my oracle touch! cheers!!!

Hi, this may be a dumb question because I am no expert, but when talking about splitting the shot at 1:57 and how it would taste half of it if the person wants just one shot. Often in coffee bars I see them making drinks where both the spouts pour into one cup. Does this mean it is necessarily a double shot or s single shot that comes through 2 spouts? Thanks

On the same note of baskets, there are IMS and VST precision baskets with 18g, 20g, 22g options and I'm not sure what that means when I want to dose. Do these account for headroom in the basket?

Great video. But what on earth is wrong with a basket that is just shorter than a double basket, why does it have to be truncated?

Love your videos and find them helpful! Had a question: if a single shot requires a different basket, what are the super automatic machines doing when you select a single shot? Thanks!

IMS Single doesn't have the same flavour profile as an IMS double in my experience. It also seems that a lot of singles are "old school" Italian slant-sides like the old NS double baskets. I think that the best solution is as you alluded to: machines with a 49mm group; Elektra Micro Casa a Leva, La Pavoni's, Olympia Cremina, Ponte Vecchio ...

Technically this would be half the flow rate, not the same flow rate. It's the same amount of time at half the flow.

A+ drawings 👏👏👏

20 grams coffee in = 30 grams espresso out? I was under the impression 1 oz = ~30g liquid when using a scale. What am I missing here?

I sometimes wish Chris would calm down and be a little more like James Hoffman.

It seems a very light tamper after fluffing up the grind would be better suited for single baskets?

I always use a single basket on my Breville. Tastes great!

I've heard singles can potentially be better than doubles, when done right. I wonder if it can be pulled off with a Flair.

Hell yeah dude, great video. The big whiteboard was cool and it's cool to see you're already taking advantage of the new space. I love the idea of only selling double shots, so when somebody wants a single they have to choose who to gift the other half too :^)

Which round Shap or straight shape single basket Could buy for breville oracle

14 gr coffee for ristretto? wtf? are you a bad joke?!

Super accurate!! Spot on! Wow!!

Not underwear😄 lol

Chris, thanks for doing a video on one of the most neglected topics in the coffee world. FWIW, I've had a lot more success pulling true singles on a commercial lever machine than on a standard pump, probably because of the very gentle preinfusion as well as the declining pressure profile throughout the shot. I have to believe a Slayer or the like would do a good job, too. The baskets I use are the 7g VST/LM type with the nearly vertical sidewalls -- with which you use a 41mm tamper -- and a grinding funnel designed to deposit the grounds right where they belong. Never could work with IMS or other single baskets with any consistency, for the reasons you cite. All in all, singles are fun little skill to master if you're into the craft of coffee.

Were you running in a park and suddenly decided to take a video or what..?

3.17 leaking underwear?

I've always just used the double shot basket not even knowing it was the double shot basket but the way I have my settings, it pours the amount of a single shot. Oh well, cool.

Why have the ridges / taper at all? Are there brands that simply sell a shallower basket wih straight sides? That would allow a standard size tamper to fit rather than buying all this new equipment. (Not a coffee professional, just really surprised at this seeningly bad design).

What's the deal with wearing a cap indoors all the time?

yee yeeah!

lowkey always hated single espresso baskets. i just split the shots i pour from my double baskets lol

This absolutely doesn’t work. 7 grams/same grind is to less coffee to tamp

Single is in!

I too pulled a -shit- shot with the underwear basket, it wasn't pretty.

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7g for single in Italy! That's it, work from there.

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Splitting double into two cups isn't same as a pulling single. For someone who considers espresso is undersized and bitter coffee, it can make no difference. For someone who has spent time pulling shots and comparing, these are two kind of shots. To simplify, I (and not only one) grind a bit finer for single to get proper volume for same time, and once I reduced pressure for 1bar, channeling isn't an issue with singles anymore. Or maybe particular roast works better. But I don't frequent coffee shops splitting double. If I want small double, I just sip half of it.

That Poor Comandante is just lying around there Why dont you Give'em Away?

3:26 not underwear 🤣