Sage BCG820BSSUK the Smart Grinder Pro Coffee Grinder - Silver

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Don't make the mistake I did, initially, by the way, by thinking that you need to just choose whatever dose the machine wants to give you. You'll see a default grind time come up on the display, you can simply adjust this with the grind amount knob, to get your desired dose.

I had a problem with a loose nut too. Being too careful when I did it up. As turning the nut will also spin the motor removing the nut needed a jerk to make use of inertia. I re tightened it the same way and it has remained in place since. I am now using a coarser than normal grinder setting but also a bigger filter basket so would expect to really. The engineering and design of more expensive burr grinders is also very high quality to enable the precise grind level needed for certain brew methods. What Happens if You Grind Coffee Too Fine? Overall the coffee will taste crap, unless you’re buying crap beans then the coffee will taste crap anyway. So, they replaced the grinder, and all was well. It wasn't until a few years later when I knew so much more about espresso in general and had so much more experience with the Smart Grinder Pro, that I figured out what the issue was. It was just the coffee beans!It's been more than a few years now ;-), and my opinion now is that this is one of the most reliable grinders you're likely to get at this price point. My Smart Grinder Pro is still fine, I actually lent it to someone recently but up to that point it was still going strong, and I was still using it mainly for manual brew. We would advise against using your coffee grinder to grind spices as various spices have greater oil content which may clog up the bean burrs. Plus you don’t want your floral Ethiopian coffee to taste like cardamom. Can You Blend Coffee Beans? We compared the pre-ground coffee to the coffee from the grinders and rated them on how consistent the grind was.

Some grinders are specialists, there are some grinders that are made specifically for manual brew methods, and many that are made specifically for espresso, but this is an all-rounder. For me, the Smart Grinder Pro is the best all-rounder grinder for the money, overall, especially if you also want to be able to grind for espresso, with standard baskets.

When you hear people talking about “performance” where grinding is concerned, what we're mainly going on about is the consistency of the grind or the size of the range of particles at one grind size. This is actually quite complex, and it's a hotly debated subject, but most experts agree that the most important element of coffee grinding is the consistency of particle sizes. If you weigh the coffee and it is heavier than your desired dose in your recipe then decrease the time of the grind. If you're someone who's not used coffee grinders in the past, you'll probably find there's a shorter learning curve when it comes to getting used to grinding your own coffee with the Smart Grinder Pro vs many similarly or lower-priced grinders. A much fairer comparison would be the Sage Smart Grinder Pro vs the Baratza Virtuoso +, as the Virtuoso Plus is only slightly more expensive, and is sold as being mainly a brew grinder. I've used both (and the forte, and most other Baratza grinders), and again, the SGP has a lot of pros vs the Virtuoso, mainly where features and ease of use are concerned, and I think they're incredibly evenly matched where cup quality is concerned, in fact, this more scientific comparison resulted in the Smart Grinder Pro being awarded the title for the best particle uniformity. Automated Shimming If your grinder starts to produce inconsistent grinds, becomes slower or sounds strange then try to give it a clean.