Thank you Ben and Herman for your replies.....both were extremely helpful. Well.....you had me at hello:-). I think I will simply take the "buy once and cry once" approach and spend the necessary money on the Foam Knife upgrade. As mentioned, I have done an exhaustive search and all leads to the Foam Knife as being the best option. It is a bit spendy, but I rather upgrade with the right equipment.
Especially since, David Schomer the espresso guru out of Seattle, has been using this tip for years and swears by it. So much so that he pulled his previous DVD's and videos because it recommended the older 4-hole tips. BTW: some awesome videos if you dig through the internet. Some of the material is a bit dated but still worth watching. David has some of the best tips & tricks in my humble opinion. To that end, do you recommend the Foam Knife 1 or the newer Vortex 3-hole Steam tip? Also, I have the Brewtus IV, so do I need to upgrade the wand too? Lastly, where;s the best place to purchase...EspressoParts.com? Lastly, I must thank both of you again. The steam trick of turning on the steam wand until the red light goes on and then turn off and letting the steam boiler build up to 1.4 bars just until the light goes off really works. I run the boiler, while the light is on, just short of 1.4 bars and the steam boiler holds like a rock at 1.3 bars while I steam. The steam boiler literally goes forever with this GREAT advice.....what a difference. Wish I had read about this earlier. Anyway, first call tomorrow is to order the Foam Knife. I must echo what others have stated, Ben is terrific and all that help in this forum to make our Brewtus's working better and better is invaluable. The reason why I do more "lurking" and less typing with this forum is because my knowledge is limited to the past two years and I am still learning. But I do read every single post and continue to learn form all those that take the time out to help others......THANK YOU1 All the best....Tony On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:26:49 AM UTC-5, Tegespresso wrote: > > As many of you already know, and has been discussed ad nauseam here, I am > struggling to get good "consistent" microfoam from my stock single hole > steam tip. > > I've had my Brewtus IV for roughly 2-years now (absolutely LOVE this > machine) and been practicing making good microfoam ever since. I've done > exhaustive searches on the internet and watched numerous Youtube videos and > frankly I think it is time for a steam tip upgrade. > > To that end, I have it narrowed down to the 2-hole "new" Isomac tip, the > Pasquini 4-hole tip and the Foam Knife 1 tip. The Foam 1 Knife tip being > the leader right now, but with the $100+ expensive along with a wand change > at roughly $40 is really putting a damper on that decision. > > Sooooo, does anyone have any suggestions before I purchase an upgraded > steam tip? > > Many thanks to all that have contributed to this wonder Google Group and > thanks in advance to anyone that can shed some light form their experiences > with upgraded steam tip on their Brewtus machines. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
