My gasket's fine. I was using the original but I've since changed to a silicone one and it fits perfectly

I have a NEMA 6-50r receptacle. {image} My machine has a brown wire, a blue wire and a yellow wire with green stripe. {image} Should brown correspond to black, and blue correspond to white as shown on the plug, or vise-versa, or does it matter? {image} I measured between the two hot pins got 240v (actually 239v)

Maybe grind size

I don't think so. Moka pots are pretty basic brewers and you like the coffee otherwise

It's really annoying that we don't get notifications when someone updates a post. I completely missed that great photo of your lapwarmer and actually a bunch of other things people had written as well. One of ours has never been a lapwarmer and the other was adopted too recently in autumn, is 11 years old, and was treated very poorly

Roast the smallest batch possible and mark dry by sight, 1st crack by sound and drop by nose and see how the numbers match up

I felt the need to share my experience with the Kaleido m1. The roaster was delivered on March 12th. I've gotten about 8 roasts done since then. I've enjoyed the learning process and the coffee. Unfortunately, yesterday the exhaust fan began running intermittently. I then got a temperature warning message. I dumped the coffee

I've seen moka pots where the gasket was not sealing properly do this. The gasket needs to seal two places. One place prevents hot water/steam from escaping to outside the pot. The other place prevents water from bypassing the coffee bed and ends up with watery brew in your cup. So you might want to check