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Recently got a Gaggia Classic Pro Evo, and after few trials and error, was able to pull this espresso shot!.

I finally have my foot in the world of espresso!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gcp is Google Cloud Platform so I was a bit confused for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Google Coffee Platform, available this fall.

Cancelled December 2023.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hahaha. You are right. I will update the title..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice one. What did you end up doing with your grinder? Or are you going with pre-ground for now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah cool. Just note that you may need to use the pressurised basket on the pre-ground stuff. Enjoy the journey!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Quite the jump from the OPV mod to gaggiuino!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks really tasty! What makes the evo different from the regular classicm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Can you elaborate?