by malachi on Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:33 am misterdoggy wrote:I need to find a yogurt cup that it slightly conical in shape. This morning I tried with a cut out cup. I stirred with a wooden skewer (kind that you put on the Barbie) I was surprised to see how many clumps there were and thought if I was to buy the Grinder all over, I would pick a doser to avoid clumping.
I thought I was so clever buying the M4D avoiding cleaning the doser unit with old grains and clicking coffee grinds that inevitably fall all over the place. Grind and have the grains fall directly in to the portafilter what could be easier. Hmmm, now I have to stir.
Well the result was interesting and will now take another adapt as the stirring makes the grains finer and less volumetric in the basket and a bit more "fluffy" I found myself having difficulty keeping the 3 turns at the end to lock in the tamp a difficult thing to keep "level". That the grains can get soft and too mushy, not solid like before, packed if you know what I mean.
The coffee came out much stronger, darker and the taste was slightly more bitter which leads me to think I over tamped trying to adapt to the finer grains due to the stirring.
also note* that because the cutout cup was straight (vertical) when I lifted it out of the basket, it left a ring around, a space so to speak which I had to push the grains into, to fill up and wonder how this played in the whole obsessive path.
How are you addressing dose consistency?
