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  • #16
    The last piece of the puzzle arrived today:

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    A "Matow" brand 54mm calibrated tamper. Arrived today from Amazon, $38. (I sprung the extra $3 for the nice wooden handle.)

    I wasn't convinced I really needed this, as I felt my tamping pressure was pretty consistent, but the results speak for themselves.

    I haven't made a bad coffee today! They are all "da bomb"! :-)

    Very pleased with how things have come along. I've probably pulled about 60-odd shots since getting the Eureka grinder last Friday, many of them bad due to overextraction, going straight down the sink. But the randomness of that seems to have disappeared today, coinciding with the appearance of new tamper at 10:30 this morning. Been getting perfect 2:1 shots (8g coffee, 16g extraction) first time, every time, all day.

    So not too shabby. Will have to wait until May until the single-wall basket arrives from the US. But until then, I'm more than satisfied with my current results. $38 well spent, I think!

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    • #17
      Well, the single shot/single wall Breville basket (part # SP0001518) arrived from Amazon US today. Much earlier than originally indicated (they said May, and it's barely even April!)

      So, with great trepidation, I made the first cup with the new basket. This was my second cup of the day; I'd actually been making my first cup with the dual wall basket as supplied with the Bambino Plus, when the delivery arrived.

      So good for back-to-back comparisons!

      I decided to initially just use the exact same settings on both grinder and and Bambino Plus as I have been using with the dual wall basket.

      So, 8g of coffee into the basket (ground at a setting of ~2.7 for 5.5s on the Specialita), tamp down with my handy-dandy Matow calibrated tamper, tare my cup on the scales, and push the "1 cup" button on the Breville to see what happens.

      (drum roll, please...)

      27s later, I get a perfect 16g extraction!

      How did it taste?

      OK. About as good as a good shot from the dual wall basket. Maybe a smidge sweeter?

      A bit of an anti-climax, really! LOL
      Last edited by LatteLarry; 7 April 2021, 02:54 PM.

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