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Most cafés don't fail at recipes. They fail at boring details: dirty baskets, old water, mis-set scales. Here's the maintenance and mindset layer that separates a 7/10 from a 9/10 cup.

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The grinder matters more than the machine

Spend more on the grinder than on the espresso machine. A great grinder produces uniform particle sizes; uniformity is everything for even extraction. A €1000 machine fed by a €100 grinder will be outperformed by the reverse.