It is the 3rd most important piece of technology in making great coffee. All our portafilter baskets have precisely calibrated holes to provide a gorgeous mouthfeel and fantastic crema. A microscopical inspection ensures that they're all perfect. The baskets fit most standard 58mm portafilters.
If the holes in your basket are not exactly the same size, high pressure water during espresso making will rush toward the bigger holes, causing channeling and side extraction. Your coffee will taste weak and bitter.
You'd be surprised to find out that even expensive espresso machines have neglected this little piece of metal, and manufacture it using cheap, inexact methods.
If you get the hole size just right, you get a gorgeous, full mouthfeel. You'll also see a kind of chocolate-powder top to your shot, from the right amount of smaller particles, called "fines", making their way into your drink.
Holes that are too big cause coffee particles to flow out of the basket into your cup, making it feel muddy on the tongue. Holes that are too small cause clogging.
We confirm that every basket is perfect before we send it to you, by using software that coffee/computer scientist John Weiss wrote for us.
We recommend you use a tamper with a 58.35mm base, because that will eliminate the untamped ring that a less close-fitting tamper produces. We do not recommend 58.5mm tampers. Such a close fit can suck the puck up as you lift the tamper.
Fits most 58mm portafilters. Known to work with machines from Breville, Sage, La Marzocco, Nuova Simonelli, Slayer, Synesso, Faema, La Cimbali, Rancilio. Breville machines work with sizes between 7g and 20g.
If you ever have any problems with our basket, send us a photo and we'll replace it free of charge.
If our basket doesn't fit your machine or you are unhappy for any reason, we'll make it right or refund your money.
These baskets are narrower at the bottom than the top. This allows them to copy the style of espresso made from lever machines, which use much narrower baskets. The narrower basket produces a thicker coffee puck, which in terms gives you a thicker espresso, with less channelling and more consistency. While these baskets were originally designed for darker roasts, it is now common to see them used for lighter roasts.
The ridge firmly holds the basket in, in conjunction with the retaining spring built into the portafilter. If you often take your basket out, you might be better served with a ridgeless basket. Ridged baskets are the industry standard.
The ridgeless option means that the spring holds the basket less tightly in, so that it's easier to take the basket in and out of the portafilter. Ridgeless baskets make slightly better espresso because untamped coffee grounds can't get caught in the ridge. However, this idea is new and non-traditional, and there is a risk the basket will fall out when you knock the puck out. If you rarely take your basket out, you might be better served with a traditional ridged basket.
Use this basket to make Scott Rao's Filter3 coffee with a Decent Espresso Machine.
You can buy the Filter3 basket online from Scott Rao with inexpensive shipping in USA and EU.
You will need 58mm filter paper: Chemex or equivalent. Both Decent and Rao sell the correct, precut filter paper to use, or you can cut out your own from Chemex paper.
This part sits on top of your coffee puck, holding it in place and letting hot water evenly flow onto the coffee bed.
This portafilter basket transforms your espresso machine into a device for making pour-overs.
The pattern, holes and spacing have been designed by Scott Rao. This basket shoots calibrated water streams, which create circular vortex in your coffee grounds. The streams have been calibrated to dive far into the coffee grounds, but not so far as to channel through the filter.
The end result is low-channeling/high-extraction-rate pour over coffees, totally automated and dependable. With an espresso machine.
You can use this basket on any espresso machine, as long as you can use 58mm standard baskets.
The Decent Espresso Machine includes a Scott Rao authored pour-over program, which has been optimized for this basket. With other espresso machines, you will have to program your pour over program on your own.
For creating coffee-like flow and pressure, but without coffee. This is a 58mm standard basket, with a precisely sized single hole. The single hole recreates the effect of a perfectly-ground espresso puck, giving you similar flow and pressure characteristics.
With a traditional machine, this basket can be used to help calibrate the flow rate under pressure of your pump. With a Decent espresso machine, this is useful for testing and perfecting espresso shot profiles.
Can also be used to make controlled flow infusions under pressure of tea, cinnamon and other aromatics. The basket was made quite deep, so that it can accomodate up to 25 grams of material for extraction.
We have two models, to simulate two styles of espresso. The 0.2mm basket is more appropriate for simulating (or calibrating to) medium to dark roasted coffee. The 0.3mm is more appropriate for simulating (or calibrating to) lightly roasted coffee.
