Hi!
Was hoping that somebody could please help me try to troubleshoot my extraction problems.
I have a new Bambino plus. I've been getting some not bad coffee with the double wall basket and that's been fine but I want to try to get better coffee out of it.
I now have the MATOW bottomless PF and have ordered the Breville single-wall basket which hasn't arrived yet. The PF comes with a basket so in the meantime I've been practicing dialling in with that one. I have a Breville SGP and use grinder settings of 17 sec, size 7 which gives approx 17 grams. The beans are a couple of months old now but don't want to buy fresh until I've sorted out this problem. My extraction runs out with a watery consistency in 20 seconds. There is a small amount of channeling but not major.
I've tried cutting the grind down to size 5, doesn't make a difference. I've paid careful attention to distribution, using a dosing cup to spread the coffee in the basket and a distributor/tamp combo. I'm not sure if I'm tamping too hard or not hard enough or how much of a gap at the top of the basket there should be. Should it be the same level as the pressurised basket, i.e. the razor tool just touches the puck? I'm not sure how much coffee should even go in the basket to be honest.
Could the MATOW basket just be a piece of rubbish and maybe I should wait for the Breville?
I'm really not sure what to try next.
Any helpful suggestions are much appreciated!
Thank you!
Was hoping that somebody could please help me try to troubleshoot my extraction problems.
I have a new Bambino plus. I've been getting some not bad coffee with the double wall basket and that's been fine but I want to try to get better coffee out of it.
I now have the MATOW bottomless PF and have ordered the Breville single-wall basket which hasn't arrived yet. The PF comes with a basket so in the meantime I've been practicing dialling in with that one. I have a Breville SGP and use grinder settings of 17 sec, size 7 which gives approx 17 grams. The beans are a couple of months old now but don't want to buy fresh until I've sorted out this problem. My extraction runs out with a watery consistency in 20 seconds. There is a small amount of channeling but not major.
I've tried cutting the grind down to size 5, doesn't make a difference. I've paid careful attention to distribution, using a dosing cup to spread the coffee in the basket and a distributor/tamp combo. I'm not sure if I'm tamping too hard or not hard enough or how much of a gap at the top of the basket there should be. Should it be the same level as the pressurised basket, i.e. the razor tool just touches the puck? I'm not sure how much coffee should even go in the basket to be honest.
Could the MATOW basket just be a piece of rubbish and maybe I should wait for the Breville?
I'm really not sure what to try next.
Any helpful suggestions are much appreciated!
Thank you!


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