Caporegime
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Only had the one cup so far. The distributor weighs 500g, which seems to be enough to compress the grinds enough that there was virtually no give left when I tamped. Super smooth surface on the puck. Twist anti-clockwise a few times to properly distribute, then clockwise a few times to polish.
As for the difference.. tastewise I'm not sure yet. Going to take some more playing about with the variables, but that first cup did pull a lot more evenly and consistently and the resulting coffee was a shade smoother than I usually get, but it could well be placebo at this point. I think I can go finer with a smaller dose now though. Going to try a 16g (18.2g is my usual) dose and really shrink the grind size.
Of course I did the properly scientific thing of introducing all three changes at the same time so I couldn't tell you which of the three made the most difference.
Only had the one cup so far. The distributor weighs 500g, which seems to be enough to compress the grinds enough that there was virtually no give left when I tamped. Super smooth surface on the puck. Twist anti-clockwise a few times to properly distribute, then clockwise a few times to polish.
As for the difference.. tastewise I'm not sure yet. Going to take some more playing about with the variables, but that first cup did pull a lot more evenly and consistently and the resulting coffee was a shade smoother than I usually get, but it could well be placebo at this point. I think I can go finer with a smaller dose now though. Going to try a 16g (18.2g is my usual) dose and really shrink the grind size.
Of course I did the properly scientific thing of introducing all three changes at the same time so I couldn't tell you which of the three made the most difference.