+1 for Stumptown Hairbender and Lavazza Super Crema. The Super Crema is my go-to bean with my Philips Carina.

If the bean has a sheen it ain't for your machine. LOL

I prefer very dark roasts and they are usually very oily. I use Supergrindz in my Philips 4300 about every month or so. Works perfectly.

It's mind-blowing that traditional Italian Espressos are pulled using darker roasts, yet I can't use a dark roast for my Super Auto that was designed in Italy. My local roasters are more clueless than I am about Super Autos, so they're no help. I never thought I'd be quite this stressed out over an espresso machine. I suppose that I should treat the amount of beans that I'm buying in efforts to find a medium roast I don't think taste like musty mud as a journey more than a punishment.

How shiny is too shiny? What’s the threshold for oil? Edit- Answer: 4:29

The urnex purple superautomatic grinder cleaning tablets can't remove/clean the piled up coffee beans in the grinder?

thank you. i've been looking for this. Planning to super auto coffee machine . this video answers my question

What nobody talks about is the ridiculously short shot times of super-automatics (funny how videos usually show the shot in slow-motion). How can a shot develop in only a few seconds? The shots tend to be bland. And, even those that manage a tad more flavor, can't work up much crema. I have a Gaggia Magenta Plus. I must've tested a dozen coffees so far and many, even those that have slightly more crema, kind of have a scrape-the-tongue aftertaste. I suppose the grinder just can't go fine enough. The retailer (not SCG) recommended Lavazza Super Crema but it still had that woodsy aftertaste. The best coffee I've found so far is Kicking Horse's Cliff Hanger Espresso.

if the terms used are "too oily" i can not void your warranty, subjective terms can never be used to void a warranty, furthermore i highly doubt that using oily beans voiding warranty is going to hold up in any way. consumer protection of warranty is actually pretty well regulated, to the point where courts have even deemed "warranty void if sticker is removed" stickers to not actually cause a void of the warranty in some cases. a super auto is ment to brew coffee from coffee beans you throw in there, there for if a used only uses coffee beans (of any kind) in the machine chances are high that the warranty is not voided, at least not from a legal standpoint. thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

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light roasts contain more moisture and oils. the longer the bean is roasted, the drier and more brittle it gets.

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If you like pike Starbucks and think your gonna get that with a super automatic you will be disappointed. Especially if you like black . Don’t do it