Smart Grinder Pro

Cuir_Beluga

Hi all, noob question ahead alert.......

I have just cleaned my grinder, for the first time ever, mind you it is only a couple of months old. Master 16 and I gave it a good going over, pulled the burrs out and what not as I found I was not getting out the amount of coffee per grind as I was.
I find it is now grinding finer than it was before I cleaned it, almost enough to choke my poor little Icona, and I have had to up the "grind time" .
Would the finer grinding be due to cleaning the grinder and it running better?

Master 16 wants to know what I am complaining about. He says it is like getting your car serviced and complaining it is running better :pan.

TIA, Sue 🙂.

Lacehim

Hi Sue, I've got the non pro version of the Breville Smart Grinder (BSG), and I give it a clean with a brush every bag of beans. It doesn't take long and it's a good time to clear it out. 🙂 I love mine, easy to clean, use and no mess and the quality is good enough. I think you'll find it copes just fine when you upgrade your machine. :thumb: Possibly if you had a lot of build up of coffee this might have been effecting your grind quality. You can just re-adjust the grind/dose. If you grind finer you'll have to slightly adjust the dose up, and if your moving coarser you'll have to adjust the dose down a bit. I wouldn't stress about the grind changing, you'll find that you are always changing it to adjust to age of beans, different beans etc. Dosing and grinding I found was one of the hardest things when I was a newbie because it was always changing and because we only pull a few shots a day at home you don't have that constant usage to help you get it right.

Cuir_Beluga

Hi Lacehim, it sure is a beauty of a grinder, I am hoping it lasts me for a while. Cleaning after each bag of beans sounds like sound advice to me. I shall follow suit 🙂. There was quite a bit of build up and as Master 16 is home sick from school and felt like tinkering, I left him to it. I have readjusted the grind time up by about 3 seconds and put the grind back up to 18 but the next cuppa seemed a bit bitter. I might have to up it to 20 and see how it goes. I guess Master 16 was on the right track then but I won't tell him that, I think he knows it anyway 😉. Thanks Lacehim 🙂.