Italian semi-automatic coffee machine

If you want to do something good, this is the machine I use. I don't turn it off for 24 hours and warm up for half an hour every morning. It's my "concubine". If something goes wrong, I can feel the steam on the machine and heat the cup during the ESPRESSO process.

Turn on the steam of the machine and heat the cup

Pressing powder on the handle, filling

The quality of ESPRESSO actually depends on the quality of the machine-the thickness of coffee powder-water.

When other conditions are not easy to change, it is particularly important to study the thickness of coffee powder.

A serving of coffee powder weighs 7 grams and can be clustered by hand. Press it flat and compacted after you put it in the handle. The picture below is a double coffee powder.

Start extraction.

Fully extracted, see the perfect gold grease on it?

Next, we begin to prepare for milk foaming.

You can read my article on how to make milk foam.