Black Mirror Nano owners? I’m not having fun.

Seand

Good evening, I recently purchased the above. Does anyone have any tips or tricks on its use? Specifically, I find it a real pain switching to a mode to just weigh the beans, then having to switch back to espresso mode is arduous. The Acaia, while expensive, was so easy in that you can turn off the modes you don’t use. So I only had one brew mode and the straight weigh mode to switch between and the switching was so much easier. Also, when sat on the drip try doing nothing, it seems to randomly start a timer even before placing a cup on it. I’m not enjoying it so far. Oh and one other thing, the Acaia started to time as soon as it zeroed when placing the cup on it so in actual fact, with the built in timer on the Bianca, I’m only using it to weigh. Thanks for any input.

JHCCoffee

I had one but sold it, as it was a pain to use. While I had it, I used it in pour over mode, even for espresso. Otherwise the timer would stop, if the espresso pour was too slow.

The first drips start the timer. I manually stopped the timer and noted the time when the pour finished.

Or set it in manual mode. And start the timer manually.

Or just sell it ….

I have several scales. I use a Skale 2 with my Decent. And a Difluid Microbalance for pour over and weighing beans, though it will now pair with my Decent.

I also have a Searchpean Tiny2S for travel. Similar to the Blackmirror Nano, but the buttons are easier to use. But I use it in pour over or manual mode, for the same reasons. They are very inexpensive. The first one was defective, so I returned it. The second one is ok.