Waisted baskets

On Home Barista I was asked:

I recall a post by you here previously addressing the “waisted” baskets and that your team was evaluating them.

Would love to hear more and also if you can maybe share what these 3 new baskets look like profile wise.  Seems that your teams findings are validating the classic Italian espresso recipe of 14g in; normale, ristretto, lungo.  One of the early posts, threads on here i can recall was that 14g dose was the norm - now we hear 18g, sometimes 21g.

The new “waisted” baskets Decent is coming out with are best at doses of 14g, 14g and 12g.  Yes, two baskets optimized for the same 14g dose  :)

The reason is that the two baskets are different levels of taper, and the greater taper gives more body, simplicity (not necessarily a bad thing) in taste, and greater ease of no-channel extraction.

Here are drawings for all 3 of them.

Here is a photo of the 12g basket.  We laser etch the side and bottom.

These will be the SKUs and names. Each basket will cost USD$25.  I'm not yet exactly sure when we'll have these in stock, but possible in the next few weeks. I'll announce when they are.

Slightly waisted Portafilter Basket (14g) DE-BASKET14V1_SW-30068

Very waisted Portafilter Basket (14g) DE-BASKET14V1_VW-30069

Extremely waisted Portafilter Basket (12g) DE-BASKET12V1_EW-30070

Update: The waisted baskets are available here now: https://decentespresso.com/basket

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German: Taillierte Brühsiebe

Updated 2022/12/12