I have a Rancilio Gaggia and a Sunbeam Bur Grinder with the right beans ground at the time you make the coffee it makes the perfect espresso. I like it that much that when we go on holidays i pack the machine up and take it with us strapped between the twins car seats like our third child : ). I hate going on holiday and having to drink crap coffee it ruins it for me.
I live in melbourne and getting a good espresso is very difficult any idiot can make a lattee or a cup-a-chino but they mostly screw it up. Pelegrinis at the top of bourke street makes good coffee.
Just before Christmas I discovered the best coffee beans I have ever bought it was Atomoica medium blend makes an exceptional espresso. Its a coffee shop in brunswick street I bougth the medium blend if your in melbourne and your obsessed with coffee try this
you sound just like me imonmyway. We took our old delonghi withus everywhere as was very light. Trouble with our new Giotto takes up three times the room and weighs 20 kg. I look at my kids and the coffee machine when we go away now and I say OK kids who is staying behind, you or the coffee machine.
Can you get your Sunbeam bur grinder to grind fine enough for your machine? Our delonghi bur grinder is set to the finest level but the water still comes through too fast even if I tamp the hell out of it. Someone else did reccommend that grinder to me so will have to have a look at it.
Will have to try those beans aswell. Got a phone number for me. That would be great. Thankyou.
Anyone else out there got a good grinder they can reccommend? Cheers