18g in the stock double basket, 36g out, and the shot takes 38 to 42 seconds, which by every guide I have read should be over extracted. It tastes sharply sour with a bitter edge underneath. I have gone three steps…
Conical dripper, 22g coffee to 360g water, and total brew time is stuck around 1:30 whatever I do. I have gone from a medium grind down to nearly espresso fine and the drawdown barely changed, though the cup did get…
Picked up a bag roasted two days earlier, which I thought was a win, and every shot has gushed and tasted thin and sharp. The bloom on filter is enormous, foaming right over the top of the cone. Same grinder and same…
Every cup has a layer of sludge in the last inch and it gets in my teeth. I am at the coarsest setting the grinder goes to, four minute steep, plunging slowly. Coffee itself tastes good until the last few sips. Is this…
Total budget is 400 dollars for both, buying used is fine, and I only make espresso and the occasional flat white. Everything I read says grinder first, but a 350 dollar grinder leaves me with a 50 dollar machine which…