r/BrevilleCoffee

Hello everyone. New to the home barista world. I’ve been researching for a while and was hoping to say I’m the proud owner of a Bambino Plus and Baratza Encore ESP PRO, but instead I want to smash them both with a hammer. Recently roasted beans from Roasting Warehouse (premium blend) it’s a medium roast. Weighing my dose. 18g, started at 35 grind setting. Nothing came out, slowly got coarser, still nothing. Ended up at 43.5 and just, just managed to pull a tiny amount. Decided to lower my dose, got down to 16. Still just a small amount, like a very conservative ristretto. Decided to use the razor tool that came with the machine. Adjusted my tamping from what I thought was perhaps too much pressure, to very lightly. Still not much coming out and tasted so so bitter. I am so tempted to return them both and just resign myself to having to buy a coffee from a cafe for something decent. Any help is much appreciated.

My setup is a Bambino Plus, coupled with a DF64 Gen2.5. Besides what came with that, tools include a needler (subminimal), calibrated Tamper (norcore), naked portafilter with a couple extra baskets.

I bought a 2week old light/medium roast after seasoning with a similar but cheaper bean.

Following the suggestions on workflow/settings of 10-13 on the grinder, a manual pre-infusion time estimated at 6-7s, a total time was hard to get used to, but likely over 30-35g.
(Used the naked portafilter)

I don’t yet know the difference between sour and bitter (salami shot time?).

The first known question I think is there merit to using the pressurized 2shot to see maybe closer to what it should taste like?

The other questions to ask/answer I leave to this esteemed group.

Thanks in advance!

Just 11 dollars.

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Before I begin, I acknowledge that there is some reluctance to buy and use Starbucks beans for making an espresso or latte. But please hear me out. I recently purchased a Breville Barista Touch to stop spending upwards of $35 every month at Starbucks.

But when it comes to making espresso, I’m a compete novice. Since I usually drink a latte at Starbucks, I purchased the Starbucks Blonde Espresso beans. Here are my settings:

Grind size - 14
Grind time - 16s
Brew time - 28s

My input before and after grind is about 18g of coffee, and I get about 46g of espresso. My question is the following:

I use a Mattow tamper and each time I tamp a little harder or reduce the grind size to 10 (or less) while keeping the brewing time constant, my espresso yield is very low. Like 7 or 8g. I wasted almost half of packet of the coffee beans experimenting with grind sizes or tamping. Even a little extra tamping is drastically lowering the espresso yield. Does tamping have such a big impact on brew quantity?

Any ideas on how to pull a nice shot while using the Blonde espresso?

My machine is 7 months old and last week the notification came on for the first cleaning cycle. After the cleaning cycle, my shots were off so I called the customer service line. She said my machine was stuck in the cleaning cycle mode. We tried running the cleaning cycle again and resetting it. It didn’t work so she had me mail it in. I received a notification days later that my machine was repaired and coming back home. No information was provided what was repaired but the email stated my machine was repaired. I am so disappointed because the machine is not repaired. The shots are so fast.

Before the issue, I was getting the first espresso out around 8 seconds, and 36g out around 30 seconds. It was beautiful. Now the first espresso comes out at 8 seconds but it’s so fast and I’m getting around 55g at 20 seconds. I even tried grinding finer but I’m using the same beans and everything.

Has anyone had a Bambino come back from Breville warranty service without the original issue being fixed? Were you able to get Breville to replace the machine instead of sending the same machine in for another repair? At this point, I really want a replacement rather than sending it back in again since I already can’t trust them.

Hey all.
I love drinking coffee every single day, sometimes I’ll have 2 a day. I really enjoy it however I am a pretty big beginner at using machines at home. I actually used to buy it out every single day lol.

I really like my machine and it has stopped my buying out habit - only problem is I can’t get it to make a double shot even though I am using the double shot button. I prefer double shot to single shot. Maybe someone can pick up what I am doing wrong based on my routine.

Coffee machine on, wait.
Weigh 18g of coffee beans and into the hopper
Portafilter and funnel on top and grind with filter size set to double.
I have one of those wdt tools so will mix the clumps and then tamp.
Push the double shot button one time.
It comes out for about 15-18 seconds only, liquid is about 30-40ml each time which is obviously only a single shot worth.

I have reset the program button so that’s not the issue.
Have also played with the grind size, changed to finer and no difference. Have also changed to coarser and no difference.

I believe the thing inside the hopper (sorry I know my wording is shocking for coffee enthusiasts) to 3 I believe(?) when I got it. Is that not a good number?

Any advice you have I would really appreciate!

Thank you :)

Was pulling a shot, good pressure for 10 seconds, then it dropped in pressure, clicked off the shot, the grinder turned on for half a second, then the machine turned off.
Now it won’t power on…

Game over?

I was descaling my brushed stainless steel breville with dezcal today and let the droplets sit on the body of the machine for 15+ minutes. Afterwards, as I was washing the drip tray, the drop marks were not going away from the stainless steel part. To my dismay, I discovered they were all over the front part of the body, and neither vinegar nor baking soda wiped them off.

Fast forward, it took hours of rubbing it with stainless steel cleaner/polish to dim/fade the marks. It looks much better now but they are still there.

Anyways, hope this prevents folks making the same mistake.