flushed wrote:
just curious if you find a difference in the taste with and without a filter. Also curious about the health of your boiler
How can I possibly answer these couple of questions objectively? Re the taste with and without a filter, as I said in my original post, don't own a filter, never have and never will, so I simply cant give you an answer, however what I can tell you is that I believe my coffee to be well above the standard served in most cafe's, Mrs DB just returned from a fortnight in Melbourne, she's an avid coffee drinker and knows her stuff, her comment, your coffee is better than anything I had over there, my guests are always appreciative and back up for more while making complimentary remarks, guess what I'm trying to say is, it doesn't taste like a chemical soup. Now as to the condition of the boiler off my Bezzera, once again, I'm not in a position to enlighten you as the machine is only 18 months old and I've had no reason to strip it to find out, what I can tell you is on buying the Galatea I sold my 10 year old heavily used Silvia which was also running as well as when I bought it, I maintained the Silvia in the same manner, regular descale and back flush, only problems I ever had were a failed boiler thermostat and wore the locking lugs out on the portafilter, the guy that bought it is still using it 18 months later and it's running just as well as it always had. What more can I say? guess at this point your wishing you never asked. :🙂
