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What you absolutely need to know, to achieve consistent results

It’s no exaggeration to state that your café’s fortunes could depend upon the quality of your grinding machine, and how well it’s set up. Really. Why? Because your grinder plays a critical role in you achieving your primary aim: to consistently get high quality coffee out of your espresso machine, to ensure that customers are 100 per cent happy, keep coming back for more, and recommend you to others.

Learn how to adjust coarseness and dosage

Coffee grinders can differ in quality, price and size, of course, but they all basically perform the same function. We will carefully adjust the dosage of your coffee and the coarseness, depending upon your requirements. This will impact upon the coffee quality and the speed at which it comes out of your espresso machine. The good news is that you can if required adjust the grinder yourself which isn’t an unduly demanding task.

  • Your grinder will have two blades (or burrs)
  • To achieve how fine or coarse you want your coffee grounds to be, adjust the top burr
  • Always adjust it in small increments, one notch at a time on the ring. What you’re doing here is changing the shot extraction time (e.g. the extraction time for an espresso drink is 25 seconds approx.)
  • To remove any old coffee grounds, switch the grinder on for about ten seconds. That should clear the grinder’s chamber.
  • Don’t dive straight into preparing your first espresso of the day, and confidently serving it up to a paying customer. Instead, make a test drink – just to be on the safe side, to be sure that your espresso extraction is correct and the resulting hot drink tastes as it should. When you’re satisfied that it does, you’ve found your espresso ‘default setting’. Jot it down.
  • Or, if you’re still not convinced by your test drink, do it all again. Keep repeating the test process until you’re sure and have confidence in your grinder. Your adjustments to your grinder need only be tiny ones, to tweak the shot extraction time until it is perfect. We might only be talking about two or three seconds in extraction time here, but even that can make all the difference to your desired end result later.