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>>19978256
Low flow? It’s fast as fuck.

With this post my personal hater will have materials to shit on me for the next months, however I think that I understood what’s “wrong” with the Giannina.

The basket has a removable piece that acts as a reducer and sits inside the funnel, it’s pic related, and as you can see when you place it in the funnel it doesn’t create a perfectly sealed surface because it has a ridge when the flat part stays up and when it’s upside down the ridge is inside so the puck is not a regular piece but has the same ridge impressed on it.

While working as intended, this removable piece cause unwanted channeling and to avoid it you have to perfectly distribute all the coffe and tap all around to get the bed flat and even, I suspect that tamping would help too, however this is what leads to incoherent extractions.

Sometimes it just bubbles super early when the puck degrades and starts channeling, other times when I make the perfect puck the exctraction is super slow, other times it’s something in between like the webm above, because it’s fast but it doesn’t bubbles, but the coffee is foamy.

On the good side, it doesn’t matter if there’s channeling and the extraction looks like shit because the coffee always taste good so in the end it’s only a problem if you want to film the extraction because you don’t know what to expect.

I was butthurt because all the other moka pots acted different but then I started appreciating this behaviour because this gives character to my moka pot, like it or not, so…it is like it is.

>in b4 dead valve and RMA

Never happened.