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Haven't bought the actual machine yet but potentially the same again for grinder if its needed to get 'drinkable' espresso. I'm not a massive fan of the idea of grinding beans to dose every morning
can’t adjust the grind to dial in your shots
Is this something done day to day as beans go stale? Surely that would waste a lot of shots in fine tuning
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Is this something done day to day as beans go stale? Surely that would waste a lot of shots in fine tuning
yup, welcome to home espresso.
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I buy 340gm bags and go through them in about a week and a half, and rarely adjust the grind (same beans all the time).
Clearly no conosewer, I'm happy in my ignorance and with my over roasted Italian style beans. -
I tend to need a shot or two to dial in a new bag. I make slight adjustments as I work my way through the 1kg bag, but generally it doesn’t need changing. The shots tend to get a bit quicker as the beans stale, so I just nudge the grind finer.
I don’t really vary my beans much. I just buy kg bags of yellow bourbon espresso beans, and then single origin stuff from YB for filter.
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Is this something done day to day as beans go stale? Surely that would waste a lot of shots in fine tuning
I try to get different beans from SQM, a kilo every month (I have a Patreon discount code so it comes 10% cheaper) and don't mix different types of beans in the hopper. As a result, last week of a particular bag the pressure on the hopper declines (as I can't/won't top-up with the other type of bean - also maybe the beans have gotten slightly stale over the past 3 weeks etc) I find the shots start running a little bit quicker, maybe because the grinder adjustment changes without the consistent hopper-pressure. So I have to adjust for finer and finer. Next bag, it's back to my original setting (of 0.5) to start dialling in.
The grinder is an Eureka Mignon Specialita (comes with a "large" 55mm burr set). Maybe I should consider putting the next bag inside the hopper but preventing any mix-up with an oven liner or something. Wouldn't be the end of the world, but mixing would lead to an inconsistent grind and a bad couple of shots before it's settled.
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How much do you have to spend?
Pre ground is ok, but goes stale quickly, and you can’t adjust the grind to dial in your shots (which is fairly critical IMO, others aren’t as bothered tho).