I used the hand grinder at the finest setting. Waiting on my local coffee roaster to deliver the pregrounded one. I need to do a comparison to understand the difference.
I know the GCP has its flaws, but I like mine a lot. Definitely get a backflush basket and some cafiza to clean it regularly. And then also look into the OPV 9 bar mod from Shades of Coffee if you want to tinker a bit. Sounds intimidating, but it's just a replacement spring for the over pressure valve. I enjoy the resulting espresso more after I made the mod.
Yes. I plan on doing the 9 Bar mod. I was hoping the EVO version would have it by default. Looks like only North America version has 9 Bar by default.
There was another link shared by a user for a mod: https://gaggiuino.github.io/
Did you check if it has the flaking issue? I bought one a week ago and it already has flakes through the steam wand. Seems like Gaggia is ignorant of the issue.
Gcp is Google Cloud Platform so I was a bit confused for a moment.
Google Coffee Platform, available this fall.
Cancelled December 2023.
Hahaha. You are right. I will update the title..
Nice one. What did you end up doing with your grinder? Or are you going with pre-ground for now?
I used the hand grinder at the finest setting. Waiting on my local coffee roaster to deliver the pregrounded one. I need to do a comparison to understand the difference.
Yeah cool. Just note that you may need to use the pressurised basket on the pre-ground stuff. Enjoy the journey!
I know the GCP has its flaws, but I like mine a lot. Definitely get a backflush basket and some cafiza to clean it regularly. And then also look into the OPV 9 bar mod from Shades of Coffee if you want to tinker a bit. Sounds intimidating, but it's just a replacement spring for the over pressure valve. I enjoy the resulting espresso more after I made the mod.
Yes. I plan on doing the 9 Bar mod. I was hoping the EVO version would have it by default. Looks like only North America version has 9 Bar by default. There was another link shared by a user for a mod: https://gaggiuino.github.io/
I plan to do that as well, at some point.
Quite the jump from the OPV mod to gaggiuino!
Did you check if it has the flaking issue? I bought one a week ago and it already has flakes through the steam wand. Seems like Gaggia is ignorant of the issue.
Can you elaborate?
Here is an article about the issue: Boilergate
You can check yours by running some water via the steam wand, if you find any small black grinds in the cup, that is the coating peeling.
I have not yet faced this issue. I will check this tomorrow.
Looks really tasty! What makes the evo different from the regular classicm