Well my coffee journey is about to begin in earnest. Starting from scratch I've ordered two new grinders (one for decaf), plus a new HX machine. My new Eureka Atom grinder turned up today and I’m expecting the Bezzera HX espresso machine and accompanying M2M grinder to arrive in the next day or two. I’ll very soon be setting them all up and dialling in. I’m getting a kg of beans with the machines to get started, and I've also ordererd from Beanbay a mixed bag: 1 kg Espresso Wow, 1 x Sampler pack (4 x 250gm various beans); plus 1 kg Decaf Wow for Her-Indoors to be milled through the M2M grinder for decaf.
I was reliably informed by Antony at Cassa Espresso that I could expect to use about 1/2kg or there-abouts dialling in my new equipment. Fine; that’s why I ordered 1kg each of the mainstay Wow! beans.
However, I also happen to have in the freezer in the shed an unopened kg of Vittoria’s finest bottom-of the-barrel beans from Woollies, Coles, or IGA, or wherever else i got it from a year or two ago that i now can’t remember. Could I use the Vittoria beans (after 24hrs or so thawing) to dial in the two new grinders? At least to get them both in the ball park of where they need to be, then purge them and fine tune with the good beans? Both grinders are brand new, so can I assume that they’re no-where near where they need to be? I’d rather waste 500gm - 1kg of cheap Vittoria than an equivalent amount of good fresh stuff?
I was reliably informed by Antony at Cassa Espresso that I could expect to use about 1/2kg or there-abouts dialling in my new equipment. Fine; that’s why I ordered 1kg each of the mainstay Wow! beans.
However, I also happen to have in the freezer in the shed an unopened kg of Vittoria’s finest bottom-of the-barrel beans from Woollies, Coles, or IGA, or wherever else i got it from a year or two ago that i now can’t remember. Could I use the Vittoria beans (after 24hrs or so thawing) to dial in the two new grinders? At least to get them both in the ball park of where they need to be, then purge them and fine tune with the good beans? Both grinders are brand new, so can I assume that they’re no-where near where they need to be? I’d rather waste 500gm - 1kg of cheap Vittoria than an equivalent amount of good fresh stuff?


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