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I have been using my mokapot for one month now and have just considered I might give a deeper clean to the heater itself because I have experienced an increasingly bad smell in the heater itself. The manual itself actually tells me to only clean it with water. However, although the heater itself just took the water and some tiny bit of coffee residue from the back flush (?) and I always rinse it, it smells very nasty already. So, contrary to the manual, I tried to deep-clean it by boiling water with some dishwashing soap. (I only took the open heater. I didn't put the upper part on top.) Afterwards, I boiled the water with a bit of dishwashing soap, threw the water away, rinsed it several times, … And the smell is still there. Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you get rid of the bad smell?

So, coming from a low-budget espresso machine, I have recently decided to switch to mokapot after my espresso machine broke. So, it seems to me that I can fill 12 grams into the filter. However, it happens pretty often to me, that I still spill some of the coffee I want to put in the funnel filter. I have a hand grinder whose container exactly fits the funnel. Thus, I grind it into the container, put the filter on top upsidedown, and turn it around. Although I also shake it a little bit to level it better, it still seems to be too mountainous, wherefore I level it with a tamper that has a higher diameter than the filter. In order to compensate for the potential higher pressure (as tamping is strongly discouraged by the manual), I wdt it a bit and level it again.