About Kenny Nyhus Fadil
Kenny Nyhus Fadil is the publisher behind espressospecshq.com and a lifelong polymath whose curiosity has cycled through dozens of hands-on crafts — espresso being the one that starts every single day. He pulls shots in Sweden on a counter where machines and grinders earn their place through logged, same-bean comparisons, not brand loyalty. He writes about espresso the way a process engineer with a coffee habit writes — dose, yield, temperature, and honest verdicts about which upgrades reach the cup and which just decorate the counter.
The Counter
The verdicts on this site come from machine classes run side by side: an OPV-modded Gaggia Classic Pro and a Rancilio Silvia for the single-boiler calls, an E61-group heat exchanger lived with long enough that the cooling flush is muscle memory, and a Breville Dual Boiler holding the value-reference slot for temperature stability. The grinder bench — flat-burr single-doser, conical workhorse, and a hand-grinder tier — is the spine of the site, because the grinder reaches the cup before the machine does. Under all of it: a 0.1-gram scale, a shot timer, a bottomless portafilter, and a shot log.
The Method
Every comparison is pulled same-bean, same-day, on the same scale — not recalled from machines owned years apart. Technique claims get demonstrated against the bottomless portafilter, the device that exposes failure. Where something sits outside that counter — competition-level flow profiling, commercial café workflow — the site says so and cites people who live there instead.
The Network
Kenny openly publishes a network of niche sites covering the crafts he has lived in — fermentation, curing, workshop builds, and more. EspressoSpecsHQ is the one that opens every morning: the same instrumentation instinct as every other bench, applied to the calibration you drink.
Connect
Reach out through the EspressoSpecsHQ contact page.