[Jumbo Ratty]

I have been dosing around 17 grams (seems to fill up the double basket nicely). In order to get 34grams of coffee in around 27 seconds i've had my grinder set to about 4 anything finer and it it take ages or no coffee comes through. therefore it got me thinking that i'mnotusing my grinder to its full capability as it can grind much finer.

Recently i have been tried turned the grind setting finer to 3 and dosing 14 grams (the stated size of the double basket) and I'm achieving similar amount of coffee in a similar time. I cant really notice a difference in taste or crema, so whats the point in dosing more but grinding at a coarser setting? Is it a waste of coffee?

The 17g dose was too much i suspect and as it swelled it was restricting the flow thus giving a "false" reading.

If you had stuck to the same grind and dosed less Im guessing it would have been quite a fast flow.

The lower\correct dose and finer grind is the right way forward.

I found that mosoon malaba AA needed a very fine grind compared to other beans, much finer.

Personally I dont get hung up on where on the dial my grinder needs to be for the correct grind as long as it is the correct grind.

In my experience beans can differ greatly on where the dial indicates once ive dialed in.

So if the monsooned malaba shows a dial reading of 0.5 I dont use that as a yard stick and think im not grinding my ethiopia yigacheffe fine enough because the dials showing 2.0 , i go by flow rate of the pour with a correctly filled basket

 

[Jumbo Ratty]

I think some of the "standard" baskets are a different size.

I believe they have been made by many different companies over the years who have all produced varying sizes.