Modifying the Single Espresso Basket

Coffee Data Science

Adding a spring and a metal screen

Espresso pucks expand during a shot, but at the same time, they lose coffee mass due to extraction. So they lose density throughout the shot that is replaced by water. I was curious if a spring could be used to hold a puck screen at a certain depth or maybe even compress the puck to maintain the same density.

So far, those experiments haven’t performed well because they cause a …

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