Virtuoso Coffee Grinder Settings

Start at setting 8 and see how your espresso pulls as well as how it tastes.

Virtuoso coffee grinder settings.

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. The virtuoso has 40 distinct settings to enable grinding from espresso to french press with the simple turn of the hopper. The ek43 is the most over hyped least bang for the buck grinder in. Grind settings shown in brackets.

Manufactured in europe the virtuoso s 40 mm conical burrs grind coffee at 1 5 to 2 4 g sec. It takes a lower setting to get that fine grind your espresso machine needs. 450 rpm preset burr speed. On top of the grinder is the plastic hopper which you turn in either direction to set your grind level.

Manual burr rotation control from 405 to 495 rpm. Settings for encore and virtuoso plus. Pulse button and 60 second timer. The grinder will produce coffee a little more slowly at these settings so be patient.

If you don t have a virtuoso don t worry. Today i realized i m an idiot. Depending on the setting. We ve got charts for all of our models online.

Everytime i try and dial it in the coffee gets worse and it all seems kind of random. 40 individual grind settings producing particles from 200 to 1200 microns 40mm conical steel burrs. The baratza virtuoso grinder comes with. 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.

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. This allows for low contact time and pressurized extraction. That s just around the middle of your grind range allowing for a solid cleaning as the pellets are ground to powder. Baratza grind size settings for french press aeropress chemex hario v60 espresso.

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. We use this chart for our recommended settings on the virtuoso. The first thing to pay attention to is the timer on the front of the baratza grinder. Signs your coffee is under extracted.

Don t just take my word for it. This grinder truly is 2 times faster than the initial virtuoso which peaked at about 1 1g a second for drip coffee grinding. Start with a grind setting that s in the right neighborhood.