Yeah, a flair or a robot is way quicker than a powered espresso machine.

I’ve been trying to optimise my workflow using a stopwatch and doing as much in parallel as possible. The key is to have water boiling and beans grinding simultaneously, and then milk heating and espresso extraction simultaneously.

I can make a flat white and be all cleaned up and packed away withing 4mins.

Process:

• add water to kettle and start boiling
• add beans to grinder and start grinding
• get robot off shelf and put into position with scale
• put milk into French press and in the microwave with time set to 1min (but not yet started)
• grinding has now finished. WDT and tamp.
• kettle has now boiled, press start on microwave
• water into portafilter and press (~30sec)
• empty and clean portafilter
• remove milk from microwave, froth, pour.
• put away robot, clean french press.
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