Virtuoso Coffee Grinder Settings

The virtuoso has 40 distinct settings to enable grinding from espresso to french press with the simple turn of the hopper.

Virtuoso coffee grinder settings. Sour even salty flavors dominate. 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. 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.

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. That s just around the middle of your grind range allowing for a solid cleaning as the pellets are ground to powder. 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.

This allows for low contact time and pressurized extraction. Signs your coffee is under extracted. We ve got charts for all of our models online. Settings for encore and virtuoso plus.

This grinder truly is 2 times faster than the initial virtuoso which peaked at about 1 1g a second for drip coffee grinding. We use this chart for our recommended settings on the virtuoso. If you don t have a virtuoso don t worry. Depending on the setting.

Manual burr rotation control from 405 to 495 rpm. Today i realized i m an idiot. The first thing to pay attention to is the timer on the front of the baratza grinder. Start at setting 8 and see how your espresso pulls as well as how it tastes.

On top of the grinder is the plastic hopper which you turn in either direction to set your grind level. The baratza virtuoso grinder comes with. Gb 2 0 gearbox introduced in 2012 high torque dc motor. Everytime i try and dial it in the coffee gets worse and it all seems kind of random.

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. 40 individual grind settings producing particles from 200 to 1200 microns 40mm conical steel burrs. Start with a grind setting that s in the right neighborhood. Pulse button and 60 second timer.

Grind settings shown in brackets. The ek43 is the most over hyped least bang for the buck grinder in. 450 rpm preset burr speed.