Would you summarize instructions on how you did it: by hand or machine? What grit sand paper? Did you lightly smoothed off high points for the burrs? Or were you aggressive in the sanding ..read more

Absolutely worth upgrading IMO. Sounds like a good choice for you. Another one is previewed here: "Mazzer Philos Grinder Review ..read more

I don't have any experience doing this but researching 3D printed parts for my roaster I ran across the process of tempering / annealing 3D printed parts to improve their heat resistance. Something to check out ..read more

Is there a way around its idiot mode? This thing has ruined so many expensive beans ..read more

Had this one as espresso about 10 days post roast. Slayer style shot (20 sec pre brew + 32 sec full brew) 18g in 43g out Thin body, but lots of clarity. Some very unique flavors notes not sure i ever got from espresso before. Watermelon, cucumber, lemondade finish ..read more

We are running on well water with a whole house cation exchange water softener (nacl based) We greatly prefer the hard water for drinking water For espresso I use soft water to avoid scale in the machine Hard water is 8-11 grain hardness depending on time of year Soft water is 0 grain I know hard water is not ideal for extraction. For Americano currently we brew espresso (again using soft) into hard water heated in a separate kettle - does it make sense that once it's extracted it doesn't matter if it goes into hard or soft water? For pour over I've tried hard and soft and definitely get less ..read more

I ordered some coffee from those "Fresh Roast" guys. According to the USPS the package was accepted on the morning of April 22. The coffee is tagged with a roast date of April 23. Maybe they really do have some sort of Back to the Future thing going. EDIT: I have to take that back. Because it's a leap year the roast date was actually April 22. They use a date code that is the day number of the whole year. So their website says "113" equals April 23 -- but that's for a non-leap year. This year the 113th day is April 22. So they roasted and shipped the same day, no flux capacitor required ..read more

Huh. By "processed and synthetic" you don't really mean smelled like an old burnt tire do you? I have 750g in the freezer, taking up valuable space. It's really hard for me to believe that time would improve things that much. But maybe just for fun I'll keep one of the vac sealed 250g bags and check on it later this summer ..read more

Decent's DE1 is less than 13" tall if you remove/move the tablet ..read more

Is that the internal depth or the external depth? By external, I mean from a flat surface to the top of the basket if you placed it on said surface. I ordered the basket thinking it was 18g. The font they use makes the 6 and 8 look very similar and my eyes aren't what they used to be. I'm currently using a VST 18g basket. It measures just over 24mm externally. Given that the unibasket has straighter sides, I would think you can easily get 18g in it. I have the Unibasket, but haven't opened the packaging in case I want to return it. Strangely, I can't get a response from Weber. They usually res ..read more