yeah what they said is correct 😭 the only option the old machines have for half caff is 2 or 4 shots. its because of how the machine HAS to split it evenly in two shots. source, i have only ever used the old machines lol

Salty about this, we were supposed to have gotten a closed sister store’s newer models, now no one knows where they are

That’s because a grande with an extra shot is three shots

It is most certainly is possible. You just have to que 2 sets of half caff and only capture half of the second set. To anyone who disagrees I would like to know how you make grande flat whites on the old machines 😝

They're just lazy they could have split up single shots in half for you lol

I am so confused. Why don’t they just pull one normal, one decaf, and then a double half-decaf and catch half of that?

Or we could do 4 halfs in two pulls and toss one of the two on the second pull.

It sounds like fractions were not realized. It’s like 2% with 2% milk doesn’t make 4% milk.

Edit: I get some of the concerns like the splitter doesn’t work properly, etc. unfortunately, most of the time, I am not paid to fix the problem, nor will I fix it.

I think the old verismo 501 machines could do 1/3 or 2/3 decaf, but it’s been a loooong time since I used one so I could be wrong

I didn’t work on the Mastranas (they rolled them out shortly after I left) but on the old old marz shots were hand dosed, so you could do half-calf off the same head whether it’s one or two shots.

Shorts and longs were possible too, since they were semi-auto machines.

Yes

my store has the old machines w half caf..... even if they didn’t you can always catch half a decaf then catch half a full caf.....

I remember the day our store upgraded from the Verismo 801s and moved to the masternas. Wonder what the new machines are like

Not correct, I've worked with these machines for almost 7 years now. They'd just have to pull 4 1/2 caf shots and discard the 4th. On the old machines we were actually trained to only pull even number of shots as well as it messes with the machine calibration, although not every store follows this procedure. Still, it just sounds like they don't know what they're doing.