How to Actually Make Good Espresso: for Beginners

What do you need to do, to make the perfect espresso? Well, you need pressure and heat. Good, freshly roasted beans and a good grind help to generate the needed pressure. Puck prep helps even further. Having a heat stable machine, delivering enough heat to the coffee puck, will help to unlock those lovely espresso flavors and textures.

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► Delonghi ECP 3420/35.31

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► Eureka Notte/Manuale (best value in my opinion):

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9/26/23 How to Actually Make Good Espresso for Beginners

[TomsCoffeeCorner]

Thank you for watching, comments welcome! Product links in the description above 👆🏻

[iamanovercomer]

You are correct, beans are responsible for a lot of pressure, especially if you eat too many ( not coffee beans), watch out 💨😂🤣‼️

[AlanRick]

Very useful reference video.
Especially the close-up shot of the ground coffee, but also the uncut full-duration footage of the espresso dripping into the cup .

[pizzatimechannel]

Nice video, not only the expiration date but also the coffee brand and blend will make a huge difference I think

[rezartavdyli]

That eureka grinder makes every coffee come with no complain ✌️😀

[technovking]

great and thorough video. Top german quality.. I cant live without napoleaton espresso after my holiday. My machine at home is not making me happy anymore.

[lifeisabeautifulride]

Thank you for explaining so clearly!! ☕

[Network-Mike]

Glad I stumbled across your coffee channel from your TikToks!

[Skysmeller]

Tom I got the ECP3420 and returned it after 20 days it wouldn’t brew coffee it also would brew the coffee not hot at all. I ended up with the Breville Bambino instead. It’s double the price but well worth it. Even though the Bambino has a therma block I got a steel bottomless portafilter and the coffee comes out steaming hot. Statistically speaking the ECP3420 has quality control issues on about 8% of their machines sold on Amazon, mine was one of them.

[kyndigvellanti]

Something minor that i've noticed with demonstration videos that kind of makes my eye twitch (little OCD), is that most tampers aren't a perfect fit for the portafilter and tend to leave grounds floating on top of the puck after tamping and polishing...then being put directly into the group head. You could see this at 4:45. For my own sanity, just tell me you blew off the excess grounds LOL. Maybe prior to the view after tamping for a more clean look. Other than that, excellent video! I enjoyed seeing this espresso machines workflow.

[E.H-bw]

Hi! I love your videos ! 🙂
I live near Paris (2 miles from Versailles Castle). One thing I haven’t managed to find freshly roasted beans… In all coffee shops/cafés in Paris and its suburb they sell beans roasted months before… A pity! Anyway, thanks for your videos! 🙂

[ivelinamarinova]

Hi, Thanks for the great video. I have a question - how finely is the coffee ground - how much should I set the coffee grinder 1, 2 or ...? Thanks in advance 😊

[robpowell]

Hi Tom, would you reccommend a WDT tool and tamp, over say the dual neouza spinning tool that seems to only flatten and stir the top layer, and flip to tamp?

[wimvandijck]

Great videos tom, thank you!
I just bought an ecp 31.21 for 15 €. upgraded to bottomless filterholder and basket without pressure.
Do you ever use pre-infusion?

Hi Tom, thank you for the video. I have noticed, that you started measuring time straight after pressing the start button. I have seen other people recommending waiting till first drops with the timer, which makes a big difference (around 10s sometimes). What do you think?

[CJvanLissa]

Dear Tom, thanks for this useful video! One question: I have exactly the same setup but I'm marveling at your extraction times - my 35.31 rushes through 16 grams in about 10 seconds. Are you grinding very fine?

[flyingfarmer]

Do you have a video explaining tamping pressure? What do you recommend? I’ve heard it’s not critical.. would you agree? Great videos! I’m waiting on my Barista Express to show up!

[Lgndry]

Hi Tom, thanks again for the great video! Just wondering if there's any major difference between using/not using the bottom when extracting, I noticed you chose bottomless this time?

[JustPassingByBaby]

That date is packaged. THey could be roasted on the same day or before that.

[CrescentHussain]

Hey Tom, firstly thank you for all the tips.

I have a question, I ground beans and pulled a shot, but the shot came out too fast - less than 20 seconds, however when I ground the beans only slightly finer, the machine was unable to push any water through the beans.

So how can I resolve this?