Heres my actual scenario.
I recently got me the top Sunbeam espresso making machine. Ive got all 4 baskets for it so I can use whatever grind I have on hand. Obviously the best solution is to use a single wall basket with a suitably fine grind but unfortunately my old breviary grinder just wont grind fine enough, even after doing the standard mod. So, being that I am a poorman Ive been buying my beans preground (gasp) as I cant afford a decent grinder. Heres where I have a problem.
I got some ground beans from a chap at the south Melbourne market and he suggested that I try a point 3 on the ditting machine which he suggested was pretty fine. That coffee extracted perfectly and I was thrilled. I then went to another coffee place in balaclava and got myself some more beans also asking for them to be at point 3. Once again they were perfect.
Yesterday I was at a reputable coffee dealer in chadstone which I frequent often. I selected the beans I wanted and asked for point 3 on their ditting grinder. The young lady serving me got this worried expression and told me that all ditting grinders were different and were recalibrated often and the finest she could recommend from their grinder would be a 4.8 which was their commercial setting.
Not willing to argue I just rolled with her recommendation. Got home and found that with my single walls in I coul only get a fast , cremaless milky pour out of this grind. Ive fiddled with my dosing a little over the last day to no avail.
So I want to know. Is this legitimate? Are all ditting machines calibrated differently? Or should I just have backed myself and insisted on getting point 3?
Sorry for word wackiness. Typing this on my phone.
I recently got me the top Sunbeam espresso making machine. Ive got all 4 baskets for it so I can use whatever grind I have on hand. Obviously the best solution is to use a single wall basket with a suitably fine grind but unfortunately my old breviary grinder just wont grind fine enough, even after doing the standard mod. So, being that I am a poorman Ive been buying my beans preground (gasp) as I cant afford a decent grinder. Heres where I have a problem.
I got some ground beans from a chap at the south Melbourne market and he suggested that I try a point 3 on the ditting machine which he suggested was pretty fine. That coffee extracted perfectly and I was thrilled. I then went to another coffee place in balaclava and got myself some more beans also asking for them to be at point 3. Once again they were perfect.
Yesterday I was at a reputable coffee dealer in chadstone which I frequent often. I selected the beans I wanted and asked for point 3 on their ditting grinder. The young lady serving me got this worried expression and told me that all ditting grinders were different and were recalibrated often and the finest she could recommend from their grinder would be a 4.8 which was their commercial setting.
Not willing to argue I just rolled with her recommendation. Got home and found that with my single walls in I coul only get a fast , cremaless milky pour out of this grind. Ive fiddled with my dosing a little over the last day to no avail.
So I want to know. Is this legitimate? Are all ditting machines calibrated differently? Or should I just have backed myself and insisted on getting point 3?
Sorry for word wackiness. Typing this on my phone.

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