Description
- So many customers asked for it, and we listened! We have developed a three hole steam tip for Miss Silvia. The purpose is to steam and froth your milk more rapidly and acquire the true efficiency of the Silvia boiler.
- This will NOT fit the Silvia V3 or higher.
- Before ordering this item, please check the steam tip on your machine. Make sure your tip has male threads (the threads are on the outside) before you order a tip with male threads. If you steam tip has female threads (the threads are on the inside), please order a tip with female threads. Although we make our best effort to describe parts that fit certain machines, we cannot be held accountable as manufacturer’s do change steam wands with different thread sizes and male/female connections without any notifications.
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Nicholas L –
I was just getting into coffee when I ordered Silvia with the 3 hole steam tip. I read a lot of stuff about how it microfoams better and what not all over the place (mostly adverts, now I think about it). The night I got my machine, I put it on there, and the next morning I tried it out. It’s really cool looking, I’ll say that for it. My initial results were, not surprisingly, mediocre. Within days, it was much better, I was getting decent microfoam (though not “art” quality). I continued to read stuff on coffeegeek.com about microfoaming, and stumbled onto a post by Dan Kehn about how he felt the tip was a crutch of sorts, that would end up limiting your potential. Heh, the next day I put the single hole tip back on. Steaming takes marginally longer with the steam tip, but it doesn’t matter at all. Steam power on silvia ranges from poor to insane based on the boiler cycle. If you start steaming about 1:30 after hitting the switch (assuming you just brewed a shot), the power you get is amazing, regardless of the tip. you can paint the walls with milk with either one if you aren’t careful! At any rate, I found that the single hole tip was a bit harder to use at first, but after about a week I was to the point where I got whirlpools that easily dwarfed the best ones I got with the 3-hole tip, and the microfoam began to get very consistent and very much better than with the 3 hole tip, I think. BOTTOM LINE: The 3 hole tip will make steaming easier, at a small cost of some quality. The 1-hole tip will take longer to master, but provide you with better microfoam if you stick with it. If you’re the type of person that likes to focus on technique and is obsessed with constantly improving every aspect of your coffee experience, don’t bother with the 3 hole tip. If you just want to make espresso and take what the machine dishes out, and have simple, decently-foamed milk, have a look into it, it will simplify things at a fairly small cost of potential performance.
James B –
I have a older Gaggia Classic espresso machine, and the steaming wand lost its tip. I chose to replace the Gaggia wand with a Rancilio Silvia wand. If you try this, note that only the version 2 Silvia will fit on the Gaggia, and even that requires a (fairly easy) modification. The Silvia (v2) wand did work. However, the Silvia wand has a much bigger opening than the original Gaggia. Much more steam comes out much faster. This generates froth quickly, but it has a bad side effect: the milk heats up very fast, and hot milk will not froth. I could not live with the big hole on the Silvia wand. So I bought this steam wand tip, which has three properly tiny holes. It was trivially simple to remove the Silvia tip and instal the 1st-Line tip. The 1st-line tip is the ONLY ONE I found with threads match the Silvia wand exactly. Well, the 1st-line wand tip does a fine job of squirting small jets of steam into the milk. But the jets squirting in all directions did not do a good job of dragging air along with them into the milk.The problem seemed to be that the milk did not swirl in a circle like it did with my single hole Gaggia wand. I fixed this last problem by inserting the very tip of a toothpick into two of the holes and breaking off the rest. Now only one hole is operational, and I get the froth of my dreams. The toothpick tip soon fell out, but the hole remained blocked – I suppose from a build-up of milk in the inside. I have no concern about sanitation. Because it is hot, that nozzle dries completely within seconds of being used. And, every time I make cappuccino, the tip is blasted with superheated steam. It’s sterilized twice daily.1st-line comment: This tip was designed for the older style Silvia wands. It does not fir their new multi-directional wands. It was designed to create a swirl from the center out (bottom, out, and up), not a rotational (clockwise or counterclockwise) swirl looking from the top of the pitcher. It was also designed for those customers who had a lot of difficulty with the old machines. Since rancilio at the time of this writing does not sell the single hole tip by itself and for those customers who lost or damaged their original tip, this si the only replacement for the older wands.
maurice c –
Easy purchase quick delivery thank you