Cuprajake
stage one you say - is that a remap :) i’m okay for now.
so this morning i got to try something with interesting, but not meaningful results.
- i chucked in some old beans at setting 8, it too a loooong time to grind and 5g went missing - i hope they filled some gaps. the grinds were like powder…
- i adjusted to setting 10 with 16g of new beans and nothing came out - cue panic.
- i had to back off to 20 or so to get it to grind - i did get about 16g out for what its worth.
- i re-checked the calibration, and went back to setting 8. 15.95g in / 15.88g out. I pulled a shot and it pissed through…..
- I re-checked calibration again. this time there is most definite difference in audio. not chirping, but more like a slight metallic rubbing, only detectable as the grinder slows - not audible during operation. this was not there before. i calibrated against that.
- Setting 8, pulled 48g in 15s.
- Setting 5, pulled 48g in 36s (with 6s at 4.0 Bar). This was delicious but i have no experience of this bean at all. I will adjust from here, and then move back to the niche zero and dial in again hopefully before 250g of beans runs out.
so the moral of the story is - leave the grinder as it is and enjoy your blissful ignorance, or fiddle with it and learn at your own expense. i have learned that calibration appears to be impossible perhaps until the grinder has been used. but at least i now know where i am.
the coffee for what it is worth was very bright and zingy in a good way, and the flavour seemed to linger a long time. i could have got lucky, but this is the type of flavour i might struggle with on the zero.
