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frontpage Posted by phoinix | Staff • Last Sunday
Apr 27, 2025 7:27 AM
Breville Smart Grinder Pro Coffee Mill Conical Burr Grinder (Various Colors)
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I got lazy over time with storing the beans in an airtight container and precisely measuring the grind weight for my pour over. On my breville I store my beans in the hoper and it has a grind time feature. Since I make the same amount of coffee every morning I have it set to 12.3 seconds which gets me pretty close to the same ground weight I need. I can adjust the shot size to accommodate different grind times
It solves my problem where I can't think in the morning w/o coffee but I need to think to make coffee.
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I've had a Baratza Encore for a couple of years now and it has been underwhelming for my purpose (daily pour-overs). The grind is very inconsistent and produces tons of fines as well as large chunks of beans. It's super loud and takes around 2 minutes to grind 64g of coffee, which is about what I could do with my old Hario hand grinder. Everyone tells me I should upgrade the burr, but I think I'm ready to move on and just try a new grinder.
For the extended grind times: I've found that if I go through a bag of oilier beans, the chute under the burrs sometimes gets a little clogged. It usually only takes a quick spray from a can of compressed air to clear it, but I've had to manually get in there with a tool once.
I prefer the Encore to fancier options like this since I don't care about dosing/timing. I store all my beans in containers for freshness and measure them out with a 0.1g sensitive scale (mostly for espresso shots) before grinding the whole batch.
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