A good espresso is like poetry for your senses. There’s a perfect 1:2 ratio between coffee and water, the crema floats to signal it’s a good cup and it smells divine. A good espresso is best drunk in one swoop a minute after it’s made. Pretend you’re in a little Roman cafe and serve with a glass of sparkling water and a small, sweet biscuit.
🔑 The porta filter determines how much coffee you need to grind! If you have a 20 gram portafilter basket, that’s 20 grams of coffee you need. Perfetto!
Ingredients
- Great quality espresso beans
- Filtered water
Equipment
Recipe
- Heat up the coffee machine. Depending on your machine, that could take 30 seconds to 20 minutes.
- Grind coffee, if needed, and dry wipe the inside of your portafilter with a teacloth
- Pour your ground coffee into the portafilter and distribute the coffee and tamp it firmly and evenly.
- Flush out your coffee machine for a couple of seconds.
- Lock the portafilter into the espresso machine and brew away! An ideal time is 24 – 33 seconds.
- Wait around a minute, if you’re a purist, or just shot away.
Keep notes on what works and what doesn’t, and enjoy getting to know your machine and yourself a little bit better with each coffee.