Machines
Kees van der Westen is a leader in innovation and crafts designer espresso machines with barista friendly features. These features, like the foot pedal for steam production, set his machines apart from the rest of the commercial espresso machines on the market. Our partnership with Kees provides our customers with state of the art machinery, containing sophisticated features, which help the barista, produce an excellent espresso at speed in a busy café environment.
Please see the chart below for the machine’s general specifications and a list of the barista friendly features.
Quality
Most experienced barasti know that to be on top of your game or the best you can be takes skill and the ability to produce excellent espresso in a timely manner to minimize the wait time for customers. Anyone making espresso with a slow or underperforming machine becomes frustrated very quickly. Speed related features of the Mirage machines as described above provide the barasti with additional tools to achieve quick results.
With the Mirage you’re able to produce excellent milk-based espresso drinks up to an establishment using 40kg per week. In addition, as space is always a premium in busy café environments, using an espresso machine that takes up minimal space (like the Mirage) gives you adequate bench area to place your completed drinks as well as space for other important point of sale items like retail coffee bags.
Barista-Friendly Mirage Features
With the Mirage espresso machines you have the ability to adjust the brew temperature by installing particular restrictors at the back of the group. Each degree of roast (light, medium, dark and everything in between) and individual roasting styles create different and unique coffees and they need a different brewing temperature. One must marry the set up of the brewing and grinding equipment to the general taste expected from any coffee.
The Mirage controls the volume of hot water available for long blacks and teas using an adjustable electronic timer.
The Mirage delivers hot water mixed with cold producing non-spattering water of the correct temperature for long blacks.
No electric devices in the splash zone, no spattering during discharging.
Performance and Speed
Steamwalve activated by foot pedal (optional). This gives you the ability to produce hands free steam for textured milk.
Filterholders with down-angled handle for an ergonomically better wrist position.
Mirage’s wide draintray can be raised or lowered continuously to allow for easy positioning suiting every size of vessel.
Steamwands pivoting in all directions.
Powerful and long-lasting steampressure.
Cleaning
All machines have an in-built programme to automatically back-flush. That saves time during the end of day cleaning procedures.
The Mirage has excellent clearance below machine for easy cleaning.
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