Experimenting with Lungos

If making espresso was a children's fairy tale, this experimentation is all about good ol' Papa Bear. According to Kenneth Davids, an espresso lungo is 2 oz of espresso, or 2/3 of a demitasse, pulled using the coffee dosage for a single espresso. We have had several folks ask us if some machines are more suited to this than others, but we really think it's probably going to be more defined by the coffee you're using. However, we still tried it out on a few different machines to see if any of them produced a better long shot than the others. Watch Gail pull long shots from the Rocket Giotto, Nuova Simonelli Oscar, Saeco Via Venezia and Crossland CC1.