News articles tagged with 'home barista'
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Engineering skills
Yes, the rumours are all true … Five Senses’ engineer extraordinaire, Richard Muhl, is attempting to combine a Synesso Cyncra group head and boilers with an Isomac to produce the most impressive hybrid domestic espresso machine in the world.
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Latte art winner and new competition announced
We weren’t too sure what to expect from our latte art competition. Our first latte art comp set the Five Senses wives against each other, and the results were (we’d better be diplomatic here) — interesting. So we were totally blown away by the response from you guys. Amazing stuff!
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How to make a perfectly balanced coffee
As Australia’s appreciation for espresso culture grows, so does the popularity of home espresso machines. For some people, attempting to create the same balance of flavour that their favourite barista produces can seem extremely difficult. Actually, the secrets aren’t as clandestine as they seem to be. If you follow a few simple rules, it’s easy to make great coffee at home.
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Releasing the Advanced Barista Techniques DVD
Coffee made badly at home can become a thing of the past. We now have something that you can use to help your mate, brother, sister, uncle or cousin never make a bad coffee ever again. It’s been a very long time coming but now it’s completed everyone at 5 Senses has breathed a collective sigh of relief. It’s not often that we undertake a project that consumes such an unexpected amount of mental, emotional and for a couple of people, performance energy.
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Step by step espresso
Espresso at home is a great way for coffee drinkers to experience and understand what goes into their café style drinks. By that, I don’t just mean the actual ingredients, but more the different levels of quality, technology, expertise, patience and attention to detail.
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How to Keep your Espresso Machine off my Work Bench
I get all kinds of espresso machines through my door (Gaggia, Cimbali, ECM, etc) but I mostly deal with Expobar Minores, Isomacs and the Sunbeam 6910s, so the following advice is mainly related to these machines. However it is still relevant to other machines. Each machine has their own intricate and unique problems, but all can start producing terrible coffee if you don’t love and care for them.
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Espresso Shot Troubleshooting
It doesn’t take much for a day to turn from smooth to turbulent when you’re working in a café. I guess it is just part of the rollercoaster ride that defines the hospitality lifestyle! One of the things that can start the slippery slope towards anxiety is a coffee pour that just doesn’t add up – or a question posed by a customer that you just can’t explain. Here we’ll take a look at some typical espresso-related problems that can be easily solved by a bit of basic troubleshooting.
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Latte Art Troubleshooting
When it comes to latte art, there are always a few myths worth debunking right away. My personal favourites are the variations on the theme that steamed milk somehow magically changes the flavour of your espresso: either the espresso will surely taste amazing because the drink has latte art, or the espresso will fade completely into a milk-drenched abyss.
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The Espresso Menu Explained
Typically only found in Australia, we are however starting to see some Aussie-inspired ‘Flat Whites’ pop up in different specialty coffee destinations around the world, mostly as a novelty or talking point. The flat white is comparable to the American latte. Often served in a bowl or ceramic cup, the American latte is nearly an exact replica of what we call a flat white.
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