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Reviews online indicated you need to pre-heat the Flair’s chamber and portafilter and that this is a big annoyance. What’s been your experience?
by hellcow 3y ago
Reviews online indicated you need to pre-heat the Flair’s chamber and portafilter and that this is a big annoyance. What’s been your experience?
- explaininjs 3y agoYes you do have to, but I developed a technique to make it pretty easy. The flair videos have you using a bowl of some sort as a water container and submerging the chamber entirely, whereas I just place the brew chamber on a piece of granite. The lapping of each is sufficient to form a watertight seal, and I use the minimum amount of water possible, which is nice because waiting for the boil is the longest component of my process. All in all the preheat probably adds <1:00 between time spent actually preheating and the additional time it takes to boil the extra water needed for preheating. That said I do prefer more acidity in my brews, so I only opt for a single flush of preheating water. Some people do 2 or even more, which would obviously take more time.
- roflyear 3y agoYou don't "have" to - but yeah it is suggested, and I would say you should do it.