Virtuoso Coffee Grinder Settings

450 rpm preset burr speed.

Virtuoso coffee grinder settings.

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. Signs your coffee is under extracted.

If you don t have a virtuoso don t worry. 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. Depending on the setting. Grind settings shown in brackets.

Sour even salty flavors dominate. The virtuoso has 40 distinct settings to enable grinding from espresso to french press with the simple turn of the hopper. 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. Everytime i try and dial it in the coffee gets worse and it all seems kind of random.

This grinder truly is 2 times faster than the initial virtuoso which peaked at about 1 1g a second for drip coffee grinding. We ve got charts for all of our models online. That s just around the middle of your grind range allowing for a solid cleaning as the pellets are ground to powder. Don t just take my word for it.

Manufactured in europe the virtuoso s 40 mm conical burrs grind coffee at 1 5 to 2 4 g sec. We use this chart for our recommended settings on the virtuoso. The baratza virtuoso grinder comes with. Start with a grind setting that s in the right neighborhood.

Start at setting 8 and see how your espresso pulls as well as how it tastes. 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. The first thing to pay attention to is the timer on the front of the baratza grinder. On top of the grinder is the plastic hopper which you turn in either direction to set your grind level.

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. This allows for low contact time and pressurized extraction. 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.

It takes a lower setting to get that fine grind your espresso machine needs. Gb 2 0 gearbox introduced in 2012 high torque dc motor. Baratza grind size settings for french press aeropress chemex hario v60 espresso.