Home Café

Sun Peaks coffee shops have lost some business due to my home café installation. Learning to make perfect lattes is fun. Unfortunately, I can only practice making coffee about twice a day. Sometimes four times, but with limited social life during the pandemic that would be a lot of coffee to drink. After searching online for a new espresso machine I found a relatively new Italian brand called Lelit. It is not as famous as some other Italian brands, but wanted to try something else. They also offer a matching grinder so it was a perfect pair.

So why do I have two grinders?

For a home café that is unusual, I would say. But how could I serve two different coffee roasts? Or serve a decaf? Or serve a mix blend…I need a third coffee grinder, Lelit of course. I could fit on the counter two more! Let’s be serious. I think this set up is just perfect. The Lelit espresso maker is a single boiler, but it makes excellent coffee. The matching Lelit coffee grinders have infinite precision of grinding so it took me a while to learn how to determine the correct granularity. After all, I am not a professional barista. Another benefit of a home café are the many opportunities to learn latte art. It is lots of fun to try. When I fail to make something near the acceptable piece of art, there will always be another attempt and the evidence of my failure will get consumed anyway.