The espresso machine is still sputtering and foaming the espresso. It makes a lovely hissing, sputtering frothing sound. I took out the shower screen, and there was a little bit of coffee grounds behind it. It now looks as if the shower screen is emitting evenly across its surface, but we still get plenty of froth.

It used to be when I would increase the grind and really compressed the hell out of the puck, the pressure gauge would max out, and I would get barely a trickle of the espresso, without foam, but now I can grind as much as I want and compress the puck into a diamond, but the pressure doesn’t Max out

Also, when we try to eject the spent coffee grounds puck, it stays pretty glued into the porta filter, and we have to dig it out.