Hi Gang,
I've been reading these forums quite a bit trying to not only master the art of my morning fix but also to optimise my process to not stuff around.
I've got an BES870 which has just come back from repair after a bad bean blew the grinding gears (but to Breville's credit, they repaired it under warranty!)
Now, when I got my machine from Myer it came with free bean offer through Pablo and Rusty's.
Reading online, tells me a couple of things
* don't trust the pressure gauge to be 100% accurate
* set my grind to about "8"
* set my dose to about 1pm
* tamp lightly but not crazy
when I do this, the guage is about the 3/4 mark almost to the over extraction range but still is great.
My question now is, because I've burnt a fair bit of bean trying to get this right and to taste great, when I remove the group head, it's not a puck like it was when I was using Grinders that I got when I first bought the machine. (Funnily enough it was the grinders coffee that ate my grinder). When I remove the group head, in the filter basket it's still very "sludgy".
Is the sludgy remains good/bad?
Have I missed something stupidly fundamental that before you reply you're laughing excessively whilst trying to type your reply between tears of laughter? (psst: it's okay if you are!)
Or do I need to tweak something?
Thx
I've been reading these forums quite a bit trying to not only master the art of my morning fix but also to optimise my process to not stuff around.
I've got an BES870 which has just come back from repair after a bad bean blew the grinding gears (but to Breville's credit, they repaired it under warranty!)
Now, when I got my machine from Myer it came with free bean offer through Pablo and Rusty's.
Reading online, tells me a couple of things
* don't trust the pressure gauge to be 100% accurate
* set my grind to about "8"
* set my dose to about 1pm
* tamp lightly but not crazy
when I do this, the guage is about the 3/4 mark almost to the over extraction range but still is great.
My question now is, because I've burnt a fair bit of bean trying to get this right and to taste great, when I remove the group head, it's not a puck like it was when I was using Grinders that I got when I first bought the machine. (Funnily enough it was the grinders coffee that ate my grinder). When I remove the group head, in the filter basket it's still very "sludgy".
Is the sludgy remains good/bad?
Have I missed something stupidly fundamental that before you reply you're laughing excessively whilst trying to type your reply between tears of laughter? (psst: it's okay if you are!)
Or do I need to tweak something?
Thx

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