Dialing in is about bringing out the best flavours that your coffee beans have to give. Older supermarket beans, in my humble opinion, lose lots of their flavour by being roasted to a crisp (as these kinds of beans are usually roasted particularly dark) and any delicate flavour notes remaining are likely to be given up to the oxidation process over the period of time that passes before they're used. With the Smart Grinder Pro (and the dose control pro, and all of the integrated grinder machines from Sage) the outer burr has a thread, which enables you to shim it by simply adjusting it to one of the numbered settings, from 1-10. The Breville Control Pro grinds directly whether you’re using a portafilter, a filter basket, a gold-tone filter basket, or a paper filter. It’s a versatile grinder because it allows you to use various filters of your choice. The Dose Control Pro and the Smart Grinder Pro are very easy to maintain. You can remove the hopper and top burr without using tools, giving you easy access to brush out the lower burrs and grind chamber.

So all I actually needed to do in this situation was to take the grind more coarse and use these beans either via the dual walled baskets or for manual brew methods. I know a lot more about grinders these days, so I understand that these don't have “true” burrs, they have “flat grinding wheels” which crush beans, and it's a common misconception that this is what burrs do, but actually, burrs are made to more or less “chew” beans into uniform chunks, not so much to crush them. So it's this crushing with these types of grinders that is the problem. So if you don't need the espresso capability, it's fair to say that purely talking about grinding performance, you're probably not going to experience a great deal of difference in the cup from your extra spend. What you will benefit from, however, is the amazing user-friendliness, ease of use, and lots of features that you won't find on most other options.This is a low-cost grinder, the burrs alone in some commercial grade grinders cost more than this grinder, and some of the grinders at around the one to two thousand pounds mark, or above, will usually, hopefully, produce more consistent particle size.

There are hundreds of different types of coffee brewing methods around the world that we have failed to include in this chart. We have tried to choose the most popular and well known coffee brewing methods, but we have inevitably ended up with brewing methods from mostly western and developed countries. In future, we hope to encompass more methods from around the world, and expand on more general brewing terms to include more specific brands and coffee makers. This will probably be in the form of a more customisable version of this chart.How To Make an Espresso It's the big kahuna of our How To guides, and the basis on which to build hundreds of drinks: our Espresso How To! Updated Oct 1, 2023. It'll do a decent job of grinding for the majority of brew methods, and it'll pair well for espresso with most entry-level espresso machines, including the Sage Bambino, Bambino Plus & Gaggia Classic Pro. What do you look for in a coffee bean grinder? Should you go with a conical burr grinder or a blade grinder? For a coffee drinker, those components affect the taste and aroma of fresh coffee.

Both of these Breville grinders have the same number of grind settings to choose from. Each has 60 stepped settings that can be adjusted to give you a wide range of grind sizesfor everything from espresso to french press or cold brew. Coarse grounds are recommended for cold drip to avoid any fine grounds which could make the coffee taste over-extracted. Unlike cold brew, going too coarse can hasten the brewing process that is meant to last many hours. We recommend a grind size of 820-1270 microns. The difficulty with measuring coffee grind sizeThe Smart Grinder Pro has a slightly more powerful motor and a more durable build with its stainless steel housing.