Hello all,
I am not sure if this is the best place to put this post...but here goes
Anyway i am a completely newbie to coffee machiens (this is the first time ive made anything aside from instant)
Yesterday i bought a rancilio silvia + sunbeam 480 grinder
Ive made some progress....using the 2x dose tray of the silvia i can extract ~60mL in 25 seconds and the puck is only a bit a bit wet at the top ; inside is dryish (compared to the sludge i finsihed with yesterday).
However, no matter what grinder combination i try my coffee is very VERY bitter, and doesnt smell anything as good as the coffee beans from which it came.
I use a setting of ~17/18 on the sunbeam grinder (a bit higher and the shot gushes out, a bit lower and the machine chokes/comes out in dribble).
I overfill the portafilter completely and then level it off with a flat surface, and then tamp down with ~10-15kg of force (bathroom scales may be dodgy though).
Anyway the fact that the coffee tasts like garbage indicates something is very wrong...am i missing anything?
I am not sure if this is the best place to put this post...but here goes
Anyway i am a completely newbie to coffee machiens (this is the first time ive made anything aside from instant)
Yesterday i bought a rancilio silvia + sunbeam 480 grinder
Ive made some progress....using the 2x dose tray of the silvia i can extract ~60mL in 25 seconds and the puck is only a bit a bit wet at the top ; inside is dryish (compared to the sludge i finsihed with yesterday).
However, no matter what grinder combination i try my coffee is very VERY bitter, and doesnt smell anything as good as the coffee beans from which it came.
I use a setting of ~17/18 on the sunbeam grinder (a bit higher and the shot gushes out, a bit lower and the machine chokes/comes out in dribble).
I overfill the portafilter completely and then level it off with a flat surface, and then tamp down with ~10-15kg of force (bathroom scales may be dodgy though).
Anyway the fact that the coffee tasts like garbage indicates something is very wrong...am i missing anything?
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