A richer, shorter, slightly sweeter espresso.
🔑 If you’re unsure of how much coffee to blend, look to your portafilter. The size of it determines how much coffee you grind. For example, a 20-gram portafilter basket requires 20 grams of coffee.
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! Here’s where the ristretto takes place. You want to pour the coffee for around 15 seconds, basically you want 1/2 the liquid you would expect from an espresso, which is 1/2 an ounce.
- 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.