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  • Breville Oracle Touch - Manual override?

    Hi everyone

    I am moving home to live with my parents in WA for the next 6 months and they have a Breville Oracle Touch. I had a read of the user manual and it seems like they have automated the machine so much that it may be hard to control the different brew variables for producing good espresso.

    It looks like the grinder one has the option of 1 or 2 cups, which may make it hard to control the amount of coffee going into the shot. Also, it seems you have to set the shot time prior to the shot and can't stop it at your desired brew ratio.

    Does anyone have any tips for using this machine to make good espresso, and essentially overriding some of it automated features?

    I was thinking of bringing either my hand grinder or Niche, along with my naked portafilter, basket, tamper, etc. However, they both have downsides being I would either have to hand grind my coffee every morning or put the Niche in my suitcase for the trip from Melbourne to WA.

    Cheers

    Bob

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    Definitely bring your Niche, well worth the hassle. I've used the Oracle, while you do get some control over the dose (very inconvenient place to adjust it btw) you still cannot control precisely how many grams to put in your basket (hit and miss), by default it doses quite high (20g+) and it retains quite a bit of grinds too, so you need to purge. Grind settings are also quite large between numbers.
    Moreover it tamps for you making it harder to trouble shoot as you wouldn't know if its old grinds, tamping too hard/uneven distribution, how much it actually dosed etc... which is why I very much disliked using it. It really suits people who are looking for automatics a step up from pod machines. The auto milk frother is pretty good though.

    You can override it to manually brew just press and hold the brew button instead of tapping it once.

    Trust me, you won't regret using your own grinder. You'll see what I mean....

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    • #3
      Originally posted by c0alJK View Post
      Definitely bring your Niche, well worth the hassle. I've used the Oracle, while you do get some control over the dose (very inconvenient place to adjust it btw) you still cannot control precisely how many grams to put in your basket (hit and miss), by default it doses quite high (20g+) and it retains quite a bit of grinds too, so you need to purge. Grind settings are also quite large between numbers.
      Moreover it tamps for you making it harder to trouble shoot as you wouldn't know if its old grinds, tamping too hard/uneven distribution, how much it actually dosed etc... which is why I very much disliked using it. It really suits people who are looking for automatics a step up from pod machines. The auto milk frother is pretty good though.

      You can override it to manually brew just press and hold the brew button instead of tapping it once.

      Trust me, you won't regret using your own grinder. You'll see what I mean....
      Thanks C0alJK, now I just need to convince my girlfriend she needs to cull some of her shoes to make room for my Niche!

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      • c0alJK
        c0alJK commented
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        Good thing its not a very big grinder!
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