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Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers... down! After years of honing my flow, the TTE (time to espresso) is 6 minutes on gas, it'd probably be closer to 5 with an electric kettle. (I use a Comandante)

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A quicker kettle would help. But triple heating the flair's chamber, then clean up and it's longer than I'd like for TTE.

The trick is getting a kettle that fits the brew chamber on top, so it steams while the water boils, I use a bonavitta with a mesh strainer as it's mouth is a bit too wide, but it seems like the fellow is almost a perfect fit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlairEspresso/comments/j53vy0/fello...

Ah, triple heating will take some time. I usually double heat if I'm brewing a bougie light, single otherwise.

Sibling suggested heating the chamber with the kettle, in my experience that has caused the silicon wrapping to deteriorate.

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