Virtuoso Coffee Grinder Settings

On top of the grinder is the plastic hopper which you turn in either direction to set your grind level.

Virtuoso coffee grinder settings.

I upgraded from a 30 cuisineart grinder to an encore with the virtuoso burr upgrade from ebay and i haven t been happy with it for the last 3 months. Start at setting 8 and see how your espresso pulls as well as how it tastes. Depending on the setting. Everytime i try and dial it in the coffee gets worse and it all seems kind of random.

The virtuoso has 40 distinct settings to enable grinding from espresso to french press with the simple turn of the hopper. Sour even salty flavors dominate. This grinder truly is 2 times faster than the initial virtuoso which peaked at about 1 1g a second for drip coffee grinding. Today i realized i m an idiot.

If you don t have a virtuoso don t worry. Efficient motor the virtuoso houses a powerful dc motor that produces more than four times the output with twice the efficiency of a standard ac motor found in most grinders in this class. Settings for encore and virtuoso plus. Gb 2 0 gearbox introduced in 2012 high torque dc motor.

But what really sets the virtuoso burrs apart is that these burrs can do a very uniform grind with a distinct lack of fines across its grinding range. Baratza grind size settings for french press aeropress chemex hario v60 espresso. We ve got charts for all of our models online. We use this chart for our recommended settings on the virtuoso.

450 rpm preset burr speed. It takes a lower setting to get that fine grind your espresso machine needs. 40 individual grind settings producing particles from 200 to 1200 microns 40mm conical steel burrs. Manual burr rotation control from 405 to 495 rpm.

The ek43 is the most over hyped least bang for the buck grinder in. Don t just take my word for it. The first thing to pay attention to is the timer on the front of the baratza grinder. Grind settings shown in brackets.

When using cleaning tablets we recommend setting your conical encore virtuoso grinder around the setting of 20 and setting the flat burr grinders vario and forte at a setting of 5. This allows for low contact time and pressurized extraction. The baratza virtuoso grinder comes with. Signs your coffee is under extracted.

Start with a grind setting that s in the right neighborhood. The ny times in a highly publicized article last year declared the baratza virtuoso nearly identical to the 2 700 mahlkonig ek43 grinder on particle distribution size and brew output based on some decent testing sidenote. That s just around the middle of your grind range allowing for a solid cleaning as the pellets are ground to powder.