So, you’ve bought your machine, bought your coffee and now you are all set to start making coffee! But what do you do? Here are our top tips to getting that perfect espresso shot!
Make sure your coffee has been freshly roasted. At York Coffee Emporium online, all orders are sent out within a week of the roast to ensure ultimate freshness. Buying pre packed coffee is a false economy – the coffee may be months from the roast, meaning it can be stale before it is even purchased.
Make sure your coffee is freshly ground if possible. If you don’t have a grinder and are keen to purchase one, read our Guide to Grinders here (LINK to blog). If you don’t want to buy a grinder, that’s fine, just ensure you buy little and often, to ensure your coffee is used up quickly, before it goes stale. Ground coffee only has a shelf life once opened of up to a week, so bear this in mind when choosing quantity.
Finally, ensure you are grinding finely for espresso, too coarse and the water will gush through and not pick up the flavour.
When buying an espresso machine, always ensure you are buying a machine with a minimum of an 8 bar boiler pressure. Anything less wont produce enough pressure to warrant being “espresso”, it will instead simply be “short strong coffee”.
Check out our Guide to Espresso machines here (LINK to blog).