r/CafelatRobot

Hi all. I am in the US and want a cafelat robot! How were you all able to buy one? I am currently on the email list for prima coffee, but I have yet to receive an email they have them in stock. Figured I come here and see what you guys did.

Hello,

I own Cafelat for two years and in last few weeks I noticed that it is very hard to rotate the lower removable part with coffee to lock properly in place. The silicon ring looks fine, everything is clean. How sure what could be the problem here? It is actually hard to find sweet spot where the lower part clicks in and rotates itself.

Thanks.

Hello everyone, I would like your input.

I am a pourover guy looking into dipping my toes to espresso ( mainly Americanos and ice drinks) and I am looking for cafelat robot.

I am enjoying mostly fruity flavors and light roast coffees so far with a lot of acidity. I don't like the tea like coffees but I want them a little punchier.

What grinder do you recommend? So far I was leaning into df64v maybe with ssp mp burrs and timemore 064s.

Budget is around 600€ but I can stretch it a little bit. Any recommendations? Do I need to provide any more information?

Also I would like to use that grinder for pourover from time to time as well or all the time If it is good enough. Even though I am using a Pietro for pourover. Any thoughts?

I've seen many passionate arguments about temperature, and oftentimes people regurgitate what someone else has written in an online forum, and they keep repeating something like a gospel. Whereas, in practice, things often vary from bean to bean. Different beans often require a different recipe.

Also, if you are sensitive to caffeine, lowering the temp can really help you stay productive without the overwhelming hyper-stimulation. You can get tasty cups at lower temps too. In fact there's been a study on this. People couldn't distinguish shots brewed at 88C from shots brewed at 93~95C (I don't remember the exact range). One more benefit of the lower temp is that people avoid burns.

Hence, 100C is not some gospel temp. It doesn't always produce superior results. [at least in my experience]

Some details:

I mostly do turbo shots.

Primarily medium-roast beans.

I practice slow-feeding.

I preheat only the basket and the top screen.

I’m pretty much a newbie. Starting to make pretty good shots with my orange robot using a Baratza Encore Esp. I currently use an espresso dark roast. Wondering if I’ll get better results upgrading to a df64gen 2 or Miidf64 or something similar? Any suggestions on either of those or other options in that general price range OR should I just stick with my baratza?Thanks all!

Had a Bambino for 3 years, despite upgrades and tweaks if it's not a dark roast dark medium roast and dialled and prepped to a good level in it's sour or astringent esp about grind. most of last year went back to the pressurised portafilter as it at least worked consistently ok. Read about this machine here and decided to see if the hype was right. As I do like my picopresso but the holding and squeezing blindly hoping pressure close enough plus paper filter it, dose weight correct and preheat is not nice all the time.

This robot thing is awesome, immediately pulling shots equal to Bambino at its best god shots! but dialling in is so easy going, grind, dose, preheat etc just needs to be close enough and go by feel on the lever and it will make delicious espresso.

Plus it just pairs perfectly with beginner conical grinders, lovely texture and not fussy, just good coffee.

If they could just crank these out and get the price down to make them available no one would be buying flairs. These machines should be on everyone's radar. I reckon if I get the piston preheated it might even manage some Omni roast beans

Hi,

Just wondering what in cup shot temperatures you are getting from the Robot?

Hi,

I am an espresso drinker, medium to dark roast, it will be paired primarily with Cafelat Robot.

Other than price & performance, my next criteria is reliability and easy maintenance. I just switched to the Robot from GCP because I was sick of boiler issues and constantly having to take it apart, love the ease of the Robot, don't want to swap one problem for another by getting a grinder I need to baby. It needs to just work.

Looks are also important, the ones I mention below all look nice to me, but I don't like for example the look of Eureka Mignon Zero so much.

I do want an electric, I did look at 1Zpresso and understand it gives amazing results but can't be bothered with manual.

I was looking at a few different options and pricepoints:

- DF64 Gen 2, $360, obviously comes highly recommended

- Varia VS3, $270, most people seem to prefer the DF64 but there is definitely a subset who prefer this

- DF54, $215, this also comes recommended and seems fine for what I need and I'm not sure if the difference to DF64 is worth the higher price tag?

- Turin SK40, $199

- Fellow Opus 2, $200

The main difference with the bottom 2 seems to be the conical burrs vs flat on on the top 3. I assumed flat must be better but was thrown a bit by reading this somewhere on the sub:

"flat burrs will produce a more unimodal grind which will be more floral and acidic compared to a conical grinder"

I don't think I'm really looking for floral and acidic, more like smooth, rich, full-bodied etc.

So what would you buy?

Bonus question, on DF54/64, do I want tbe red titanium or stainless steel burrs. Price difference isn't big.