Rancilio Silvia Bottomless Portafilter - Version 3

This is a 21gm basket with a bottomless portafilter.. expensive but worth it to nail your espresso. Any flaws in grinding of the beans including inconsistency, and tamping techniques are easily demonstrated

It's a nice looking portafilter, and I mostly love it. I like to use this portafilter, not because I want to see my pour, but because there's no spout to get grungy and require clean up. My espresso comes out nice and clean from the filter every time. Sometimes the filter sprays a little when I mess up my tamping --- that's the nature of a bottomless filter. To counteract this, I put my mug/glass/whatever directly under the portafilter to catch the spray. Sadly, because the handle goes all the way down to the bottom of the basket holder, I can't lift the mug up higher than the bottom of the basket holder. That's MOSTLY ok, but if the handle were attached higher, I could fit the bottom of the filter slightly INSIDE the mug, and that would help keep coffee from spraying out even more. Of course, every OTHER bottomless portafilter attaches even LOWER than the Silvia. so I can't complain. 5 stars. 5.5 stars if they leave a little gap between the bottom of the basket holder and the handle in the next version.

I bought this for my husband’s Rancillio Sylvia espresso machine and he just loves it. He now makes perfect latte macchiatos and it works very well. Fits perfectly of course since it was made especially for this machine. It’s heavy and sturdy. Very well made.

Received 2days ago, ship and sold by amazon US. Can anyone advise if the engraving for bottomless portafilter v3 looks like in the pictures? The 2 pieces of smaller baskets on the right is laser etched with the brand and product lot/item code number but the one that came with the portafilter v3 looks punched on it which is barely visible. The pull from the 21g basket is not uniform too. The portafilter on the right and laser etched baskets comes with the silvia i‘d gotten last month. Just need some heads up from coffee lovers here if I’d gotten a knockoff. Would gladly remove this comment if I’m mistaken. Appreciated!

This is as expected -- having a bottomless portafilter is useful to get the basics of your espresso practice tuned in, and it also holds a larger coffee dose. Now, if you do have problems -- channelling, for instance -- a bottomless portafilter can be messier than a portafilter with a bottom and one or more spouts. So this may not be the perfect portafilter for every use, but as long as you know what you're getting into, it's totally as expected. works great.

I got my Rancilio Bottomless filter today and tried it out right away. I put in double shot basket (18g) since I didn't want to do a triple shot. The basket fit just fine into the porta filter and into the Silvia. Got a great shot out of it. Overall I think it's a great Bottemless filter. The metal around the portafilter feels solid and looks great. The handle is good but there area where you find the Rancilio logo has some plastic edges that stick out and feel a little sharp, but not a deal breaker. I think if you want to get a bottomless portafilter, highly recommend getting this one to improve your espresso game.