Coffee Appreciation

it felt grainy in between my fingers even though visually it looked quite fine.
we have talked about this before and i appreciate the grinder gets set at different grinds as people order stuff so it gets moved about a lot during the day.
i think my machine is fine as stuff that espresso room grind is perfect as is monmouth it's just that about 1 in evry 5-6 bags i buy will be off (i do check they grind it for espresso, and asked again as i paid today)

if i have time i will pop some round but what i usually do is just use it in the cafetiere if it's too coarse, it's actually really nice brewed this way

the real solution is to buy a grinder :-)

I've had this problem with monmouth too (not exactly a problem, but anyway) – my assumption is that they don't want to risk choking people's machines so they set the grinder to the coarsest setting they can get away with for an espresso grind. The last batch I bought I asked for slightly finer than what they would normally do for espresso and it's come out OK, could maybe go down another notch or two (extractions are about 10-15 secs) and that was at 2.0 on their machine. The girl was happy to adjust to my needs and told me to ask them for 2.0 in the future, so just talk to them about it next time you go in, I'm sure they would be happy to advise.