Appreciate help with a few problems - Just bought Gaggia Classic and Sunbeam 0480 Grinder.
1. Grinder setting tried 15 and seemed ok . The portafilter was full but after light tamp(with useless plastic tamper) was 5/6mms below top . The shot lasted only about 9/10 secs was quite dark and afterwards there was water/mud pack mixture in portafilter. Any suggestions.
2. There seems quite a lot of coffee left in grinder spout after grinding (if this was instant coffee I could make 2 cups of coffee out of this ?
3. Sunbeam state fill bean hopper befor grinding , but wont beans go stale as hopper cover is not airtight ?
4. I used plastic end on milk frother but it was hard to rotate it below surface of milk as the there is insufficent space (even after tilting milk jug) from machine to bench top - also after allowing heating milk until jug is just too hot touch the milk produced adequate froth but added to the coffee seems rather cool .
Prevously with stove top coffee maker I heated milk in plastic container and use hand (battery operated ) frother with quite good results.
Hope not too many questions but all help is very much appreciated for a new user.
Gus
1. Grinder setting tried 15 and seemed ok . The portafilter was full but after light tamp(with useless plastic tamper) was 5/6mms below top . The shot lasted only about 9/10 secs was quite dark and afterwards there was water/mud pack mixture in portafilter. Any suggestions.
2. There seems quite a lot of coffee left in grinder spout after grinding (if this was instant coffee I could make 2 cups of coffee out of this ?
3. Sunbeam state fill bean hopper befor grinding , but wont beans go stale as hopper cover is not airtight ?
4. I used plastic end on milk frother but it was hard to rotate it below surface of milk as the there is insufficent space (even after tilting milk jug) from machine to bench top - also after allowing heating milk until jug is just too hot touch the milk produced adequate froth but added to the coffee seems rather cool .
Prevously with stove top coffee maker I heated milk in plastic container and use hand (battery operated ) frother with quite good results.
Hope not too many questions but all help is very much appreciated for a new user.
Gus
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