Re: Cafe Roma Problems
Hi Ozz. Your mod looks good. From the description, I dont think the problem is with your cafe roma, so I dont think you should rush into selling it just yet. If you are getting a pour time of 13 seconds for 60ml from your single basket, that is the most likely reason for your problem. I think you should be aiming roughly for a pour time of 30 seconds for 30ml from your single basket. You should not try to extract more than 30 ml from a single basket - it will just taste bad. With your current set up, the water is moving through your coffee 4 times too fast. This suggests that your grind is not fine enough (if you are tamping hard) and is probably also connected to the lack of crema. The sunbeam grinder can be tricky to get right and I think if it isnt clean, then compacted coffee grounds can keep the upper burr from getting closer to the lower burr even when you dial it down. So, firstly, try to clean the burrs if they are covered in old grounds. Then, try grinding at a the same or even a finer setting. If you cant get a setting that slows the pour rate, then the problem is with your grinder, not the cafe roma. I used to be able to choke my cafe roma so it wouldnt pour at all, if I dropped the grinder setting to about 10 and tamped hard with the plastic tamper. From there, 1 or 2 clicks higher, same amount of coffee and same tamp pressure, had it working about right, producing nice coffee with decent crema through my modified basket. I dont know Campos coffee, but if it isnt fresh roasted (ie. within a few weeks at most), then that may also be why you arent getting much crema.
Hi Ozz. Your mod looks good. From the description, I dont think the problem is with your cafe roma, so I dont think you should rush into selling it just yet. If you are getting a pour time of 13 seconds for 60ml from your single basket, that is the most likely reason for your problem. I think you should be aiming roughly for a pour time of 30 seconds for 30ml from your single basket. You should not try to extract more than 30 ml from a single basket - it will just taste bad. With your current set up, the water is moving through your coffee 4 times too fast. This suggests that your grind is not fine enough (if you are tamping hard) and is probably also connected to the lack of crema. The sunbeam grinder can be tricky to get right and I think if it isnt clean, then compacted coffee grounds can keep the upper burr from getting closer to the lower burr even when you dial it down. So, firstly, try to clean the burrs if they are covered in old grounds. Then, try grinding at a the same or even a finer setting. If you cant get a setting that slows the pour rate, then the problem is with your grinder, not the cafe roma. I used to be able to choke my cafe roma so it wouldnt pour at all, if I dropped the grinder setting to about 10 and tamped hard with the plastic tamper. From there, 1 or 2 clicks higher, same amount of coffee and same tamp pressure, had it working about right, producing nice coffee with decent crema through my modified basket. I dont know Campos coffee, but if it isnt fresh roasted (ie. within a few weeks at most), then that may also be why you arent getting much crema.


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