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Hi All,
I have a brand new Sunbeam EM7000 and I've paired it up with a Breville Smart Grinder Pro. Pretty darn happy with this setup I have to say.
So far I've dialled it in with the one cup option and I'm getting really good consistent results with flavour and all those other variables that count (extraction time, steady pressure in the orange band, shot size etc). On the grinder I'm using the default grind time for a single shot set at a grind size 10.
But come to the two cup selection, I'm having problems.
The only difference with my one and two cup situation is that I use the double filter basket, and select 2 shots on the Breville grinder. Everything else is exactly the same.
The result is pretty close to a choked extraction, with the pressure indicating comfortably in the red band. I tried only varying the tamp from barely compressing the grind to my standard pressure, and the result is the same.
The only way I got a reasonable change close to an acceptable result was if I changed the grind size to 15, i.e. a courser grind. which changes the flavour etc.
Is this normal? or am I doing something incorrect as far as technique or something else?
Any recommendations/info will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance folks.
ps. This is my first post in this great forum, so forgive me if I don't quite get my ducks in a row with replies etc.
I have a brand new Sunbeam EM7000 and I've paired it up with a Breville Smart Grinder Pro. Pretty darn happy with this setup I have to say.
So far I've dialled it in with the one cup option and I'm getting really good consistent results with flavour and all those other variables that count (extraction time, steady pressure in the orange band, shot size etc). On the grinder I'm using the default grind time for a single shot set at a grind size 10.
But come to the two cup selection, I'm having problems.
The only difference with my one and two cup situation is that I use the double filter basket, and select 2 shots on the Breville grinder. Everything else is exactly the same.
The result is pretty close to a choked extraction, with the pressure indicating comfortably in the red band. I tried only varying the tamp from barely compressing the grind to my standard pressure, and the result is the same.
The only way I got a reasonable change close to an acceptable result was if I changed the grind size to 15, i.e. a courser grind. which changes the flavour etc.
Is this normal? or am I doing something incorrect as far as technique or something else?
Any recommendations/info will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance folks.
ps. This is my first post in this great forum, so forgive me if I don't quite get my ducks in a row with replies etc.
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