Re: Alternatives for La Spaziale S1 Vivaldi?

On 22 Sep 2005 10:16:05 -0700, "gscace" <gregory.scace@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I've never noticed any off tastes when tasting the water from my Linea
>2 group, which is in home use and has a bigger boiler than the home
>machine. It's left on all of the time. I just use good water and my
>throughput is prolly a coupla liters a day. The environment is
>different than that of a hx service boiler, where the water is often
>just converted to steam during frothing, leaving minerals behind. In
>brew boilers, the water is heated to below the boiling point, and sent
>on its merry way through the coffee or wherever, whichout gaining
>hardness. As far as I've ever been able to tell it's just a
>non-issue. Evidently, LM's thinking is in line. They are smart guys
>and have evidently decided that the thermal inertia of a large brew
>boiler trumps any potential problem from water sitting around hot.
>
>-Greg

Or perhaps there is a regular flow from the brew boiler to the steam
boiler, as the two David's mention elsewhere in this thread?

Marshall
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