<figure> <img src="../espresso.jpg" alt="../espresso.jpg" title="../espresso.jpg" /><figcaption> Straight espresso </figcaption> </figure> <p> Then you have to rough it.</p>

<figure> <img src="../grinder.jpg" alt="../grinder.jpg" title="../grinder.jpg" /><figcaption> An Ascaso i-1 in the cow print paint job. </figcaption> </figure> <p> The old grinder broke. It probably wasn&#39;t more than a year old, but what do you expect when the most abused part of the machine (the doser lever) is plastic? Just another reason I will never buy anything with the name Gaggia on it again (the espresso machine being the other).</p> <p> I did a quick check on the web, and no one would admit to having the parts I&#39;d need to repair it, so I did a little modification with a Dremel to make it usable for a while, until I could figure out what to replace it with. Of course, a friend who has the same model and had the same breakage later told me that he was able to get replacement parts. Oh, well.</p>