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  • #16
    Re: what are the dosing techniques that you use?

    Originally posted by chartres link=1217294942/0#14 date=1217629731
    ... "collapsing the basket".. what is that exactly?
    Gday Chartres ...

    It refers to evening/balancing out the grind output in your pf, by tapping the spout usually on a rubber mat on the bench.

    Most, if not all, grinders are right-clicking dosers, & conseqently will 9 times out of 10 sweep the amount of grind to the left of the pf when dosing (meaning an un-balanced peak of grind on the left of the pf, compared to the right). The cheaper ones also clump more in grind, requiring considerably more tap-tap collapsing! You need to balance/even out the grind in the pf after this (ie collapse the basket) by tapping the end of the spout/spouts on a surface after dosing.

    Then, once evened, you tamp ...

    Hope that helped mate.

    Tony

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    • #17
      Re: what are the dosing techniques that you use?

      Good topic here

      Consistancy is one of the hardest things for me - and working out what it was in the prep that made this shot good, but the next one a bit of a dud. Like it has been said - practice, oractice, practice.
      The other thing I have noticed is the better you get the more demanding you are of yourself - what 12 months ago was an almost a god shot, today would almost be a sink shot.

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      • #18
        Re: what are the dosing techniques that you use?

        Originally posted by GrindOnDemand link=1217294942/0#15 date=1217655121
        Originally posted by chartres link=1217294942/0#14 date=1217629731
        ... "collapsing the basket".. what is that exactly?
        Was wondering exactly the same -- thanks Tony (or should we call you GOD ;D )

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        • #19
          Re: what are the dosing techniques that you use?

          Iv used some old beans to practice my dosing technics before, then weighing the basket for consistency. I did this over and over again till I could tell if the the basket was .5 out before i weighed it , it was through this that i started noticing minute changes in what I was doing and my technic started to improve.

          In saying that, I need to go back and do this again because a shot I did before was horridness.
          Rancho

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