Recent content by FrankZ

The charcoal grate is a wear item. Place to replace it every once in a while and don't worry about it.

When you have a good crew in a busy restaurant it is a really impressive machine. Most times now a days the crews are less than impressive, but I still love me some Waffle House.

Me too - +1, +1. +1

The web site said 6 week lead time. When I ordered it said 7 week lead time. Time from order to shipment was 19 days. This was supposed to be in depot tomorrow (it shipped LTL freight). Arrived at the depot last night and this morning I arranged for it to be delivered on Friday. Kathleen...

I do love me some Waffle House.

I currently have a Gaggia Classic Pro (in red) that is heavily modded. I put in the PID, pressure gauge, dimmer mod and the OPV mod. It leaks though and I have a new machine on order. I will post about that one when it arrives in 6 weeks or so.

I am not sure I am the right person for presses. I like them well enough but I don't use them personally. But I am happy to give em a try! By expensive do you mean you don't want to spend money or do you mean good espresso is expensive to start with so you just want to be in the middle of the...

I see room for a proper espresso maker.

There's also the very rare breed, that seems indigenous to this area, that yell at you about patriarchy and misogyny. Sometimes trying to be nice gets isn't all its cracked up to be.

We watched that last night. I enjoyed it but it really wasn't what I had hoped it would be.