These are the fundamentals that Godoc.it's analysts have awarded by choosing their Kits.

1. Italian coffee is a social ritual, it is normally drunk in company above all as a tonic in the morning and as a digestive after meals.

2. In chhosing the Kits, godoc.it followed the guidelines of the Enei (the national espresso coffee institution that dictates the rules to obtain the "Espresso Italiano" certificate that public places will be able to display soon).

3. To prepare a Perfect espresso one needs 7 g of blend, almost 50 wisely toasted coffee-beans , water to 88 °C and a 9 bar pressure. Blends must mostly contain Arabic and Robust.
4. Most important is the use of fresh and light water. The powder must not be pressed to heavily into the filter.

5. The water must flow through the powder in 22, maximum 25 secs. If the extraction for instance lasts just 15 seconds, this means that only a part of the precious substances is poured into the cup; over 35 seconds it happens exactly the opposite: then woody substances also are extracted from the coffee powder.

6. Coffee must not exceed 25 millimetres, including cream and must be served at a temperature of 67 °C and in a white china cup without decorations inside.

7. Cream must be consistent and of very fine texture, a hazelnut colour tending to very dark brown, with tawny reflections.

8. The flavours that are easy to perceive are five: roast, chocolate- like, flowered, fruit-scented and herby, also called toast. The right flavour is intense and rich at flowers, fruit, chocolate and toast. If the smell is pleasant this is already a good start: sour or bitter? If there is a fair balance between these flavours we are drinking Arabic. If the flavour is chocolate like tending to flowered and fruit scented it again is Arabica. By contrast, if it is more bitter with erath-like flavour it is Robust. If there is a slightly musty aftertaste we are confirmed we are dealing with Arabic. If coffee, as Eduardo used to say, tastes of "scaraffone" (cockroach),... you had better change bar!

Notes about coffee

Drinking coffee is a magic ritual that can reach its own perfection, only in bars and coffee houses.
The coffee machine, the mix and the cups are as all-in-one as the Christian Godness. God is Three in One. Coffee also is three in one because it must be prepared with an Italian blend, with an Italian espresso machine and it must be drunk in a white china cup.
The great Spanish film director Luis Bunuel wrote in "Worldly Pleasures" in 1983:
"Italian bars and coffee houses are the sacred places where to taste true coffee.
Coffee presupposes discussion, coming and going and the -sometimes- noisy friendship of women. Bars instead are exercises of loneliness. All music must be severely banned.
A dizaine of tables, possibly, some usual customers talking very little. The bar is such a place of meditation and concentration to me, which life would be unconceivable without . An ancient habit that strengthened along the years.
In New York I used to tell friends: "If you come to New Yourk and you want to know whether I am there, go to the Roma Bar of the Plaza Hotel at noon. If I am in New York I will be there".

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