Hi Everyone
I seem to be having very inconsistent results with my Siliva. Ill go through the process and someone can hopefully let me know what Im doing wrong:
1) Grind the beans at approximately 11 on my Sunbeam 4800 burr grinder directly into filter basket.
2) Level off with back of knife
3) Grind more coffee into filter basket.
4) Tamp (with budget Silvia tamper whilst wating for my pullman tamper to arrive!!!) coffee down to line in filter basket. I do tamp quite hard.
5) Attach filter to machine and turn pump on.
6) The coffee usually takes about 8 seconds to start puring and is a very slow drip or trickle. Then it takes about 40 seconds for 30 mls and it has very limited to no crema.
Im assuming that I am either:
- tamping too hard;
- or grinding to fine.
What are everyones thoughts?
I seem to be having very inconsistent results with my Siliva. Ill go through the process and someone can hopefully let me know what Im doing wrong:
1) Grind the beans at approximately 11 on my Sunbeam 4800 burr grinder directly into filter basket.
2) Level off with back of knife
3) Grind more coffee into filter basket.
4) Tamp (with budget Silvia tamper whilst wating for my pullman tamper to arrive!!!) coffee down to line in filter basket. I do tamp quite hard.
5) Attach filter to machine and turn pump on.
6) The coffee usually takes about 8 seconds to start puring and is a very slow drip or trickle. Then it takes about 40 seconds for 30 mls and it has very limited to no crema.
Im assuming that I am either:
- tamping too hard;
- or grinding to fine.
What are everyones thoughts?


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