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wet puck is no indication of a quality, or not, espresso.
Weirdly the era of soggyness has ended since I asked about it. New (to me) grinder and larger amount of coffee per shot may have contributed. Caved and actually used kitchen scales a few times to see if I was close to 20 grams in the basket - I wasn't. More like 15 grams.
I give up on utfs and Google. Help me coffee geeks. Why do I often end up with a soggy espresso puck after brewing? Cleaned everything, machine backflushes as it should, tested different grinds and doses etc. Quite often it's like mud when I remove the handle.