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Consistent Espresso Delivery
Compak La-Cimbali
Compak released the CUBE auto tamp around two years Daniel Clarke, Commercial Director, UK &
ago, and Chris from Conti admitted he was sceptical, not Ireland, La Cimbali talks about the
being convinced it would help him personally to any importance of a quality coffee grinder.
extent. ‘A good quality grinder doser is essential
for any operator because of the impact the
He quickly discovered that even with the best muscle coffee grind has on the taste, flavour and
memory and years of experience, “it is nigh on aroma of the finished drink’.
impossible to compete with a machine for consistency,
we know, we’ve tried and failed”. He added, ‘Given 20 Clarke continued, ‘Consistency is key, even
attempts, our best practices produced shot times with a small changes in grind size can drastically
3-4 second variation, the Compak Cube auto tamper gave affect the taste of the final brew. If the
us 20 shots all within a 1 second tolerance. These coffee grounds are too course, the coffee
variations can create significant differences in taste, so may be under-extracted and weak, and too
we admitted defeat and conceded to the Cube’. fine a grind and the coffee can be over-
extracted and bitter’.
Cimbali also offers the self-adjusting
Chris & Alice Edgcumbe-Rendle
Elective Grinder Doser which features high
precision burr grinders that process the
beans quietly and evenly to produce a
better quality, uniform grind for enhanced
Chris continued, 'I have to say we’ve never looked back, in cup quality. The Elective features
even within the confines of our espresso machine Bluetooth enabled, PGS technology which
showroom, making relatively few coffees, utilising this regulates each stage of the brew cycle MAY/JUNE. 2023 | ISSUE 30
automated tech allows us time to concentrate on other through the working day, from grinding the
aspects of the process – genuinely allowing us more time coffee and adjusting the grinder to
to improve and perfect every part of the process'. dispensing the finished drink.
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