58mm Bottomless Portafilter, Professional Stainless Steel Portafilter 2 Ears for 58 Gaggia Machines- Not suitable with E61 groupheads,with Walnut Handle & Filter Basket

Works great. Feels great. Stout enough to serve as a handy weapon to use against intruders intent on stealing my espresso machine. Best of all, it makes better tasting coffee than the portafilter with the little pressure fitting that came with my machine. I can get a decent amount of crema with it so far but I'm still refining my technique. No sealing problems whatsoever.

Excellent portafilter, it fits my delonghi ECP 3630 without any issues and it extracts a delicious espresso with it. Now I can use my espresso grinder and get real espresso instead of using the pressurized baskets. The wood handle is a niche touch, it makes it feel premium. I highly recommend it.

It works perfectly for Gaggia Evo Pro. No leaks or other issues. The handle looks nice too. I wish it was a bit heavier for better temperature stability.

I was very excited to try this, unfortunately I found it to work worse than the one that came with the machine.This portafilter is listed as being a direct replacement for my machine. It does fit perfectly and I didn't experience the leaks that others have complained about.I found the preliminary build quality to be very good. The wooden handle attaches solidly and did not flex when I torqued it into the espresso machine.The issue isn't with the fit and finish, this portafilter did not produce a better pull of espresso as compared to the pressure portafilter that came with the unit.I tried several times, with and without the screen, and the results were always the same. It would brew espresso but little to no crema.In the photo you can see this result on the left and the original one on the right.

Everything worked well fit-wise. No issues with leaking or griding mating surfaces. It's just a hair looser than the stock portafilter, but still locks in at 6 o'clock.I went back and forth between this and the stock portafilter basket and ended up using this one. Only gripe is that between the retention lip in the basket and the retention spring, it takes quite a bit of force to remove (not so with the Gaggia stock basket). Still have a busted knuckle from my first attempt at removal.The fit/finish of the handle is very reasonable for the price. I liked the handle off my old 3-eared 51mm CAPFEI bottonless portafilter, and sure enough, it uses the same threads to attach to the filter body, so I was able to swap it without a problem.Disregard other peoples' comments about "coffee spraying everywhere." Sorry folks, but that's a skill issue. Watch a few videos on dialing in your grind if you run into that problem. The point of a bottomless portafilter is to see what's going on, and in their case, the goings on are a mess.

Works great so far on my Delonghi Stilosa and looks very cool. Helps to see how the espresso is coming out in real time and holds 18g+ of espresso.

For this filter to work adequately: 1) fine ground fresh espresso 2) perfectly flat and dispersed 3) puck screen 4) flat, strong tamp.Other tips appreciated. It still doesn’t work as well as a pressurized filter. Low crema, fine taste. Easy to keep clean.

After some adjustments of dose and grind level it works just fine. Must have very fine grinded coffee and hard tamping to get the pressure optimal.I have a De'Longhi spesialista arte evo and it fits perfectly.