Guide To Coffee Making - Sunbeam EM7000 Instruction Booklet

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Guide to coffee making

PRE-HEATING
Glasses
Pre-heat glasses and cups by filling them
with hot water as this will assist to preserve
the crema of the espresso and also help
maintain the temperature of the espresso.
Just prior to making your espresso glasses
and cups can be pre-heated using the hot
water feature on your espresso machine.
Otherwise glasses and cups can be stored on
the warming tray of the espresso machine;
this will also assist in pre-heating.
Group Handle and Filter baskets
This is important especially for the first
coffee being made, as a cold group handle
can significantly decrease the temperature of
the water at the point of extraction. This in
turn will alter the quality and characteristics
of the resulting espresso extraction.
An easy way to pre-heat the group handle
and filter basket is to fit the group handle
with a filter basket. Hold the group handle
under the group head, press the MANUAL
button and allow the hot water to flow over
the group handle. Rotate the group handle so
both the underside of the group handle and
the filter basket is preheated. You may need
to press the MANUAL button again to ensure
the group handle and filter basket is properly
pre-heated.
Dry the filter basket before filling with coffee.
DOSING and TAMPING
• Dry wipe the basket.
• Grind evenly and directly into the centre of
the filter basket.
• Fill the filter basket with ground coffee to
the rim.
• Using the tamper, tamp straight down, this
is going to create more space for some
more coffee.
• Grind some more coffee to a similar level
in the filter basket and using the tamper
again to create some more space. One last
time grind some more coffee into the filter
basket to the rim.
• This time lock the group handle into the
side of the bench and using the tamper
apply firm downward pressure. Brush any
loose coffee off the rim of the basket into
the centre and tamp down again, this time
twist the tamper to seal the top of the
coffee.
• Wipe the rim of the filter basket free of any
loose coffee grinds and use immediately.
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