r/FellowProducts

My Ode 2 is not really grinding. Any idea what could be going on?

I've been messing around trying to replicate some of my favorite lever machines like the Londinium and Cremina and finally hammered out a great Cremina profile that is fantastic for milk drinks. I'll link the brew profile, but the main thing is a pretty long pre-infusion of 15-17s (dependent on grind size) with a high flow rate of 6.5 m/s and low pressure of 1bar followed by a jump up to 8 bars for infusion and slowly ramping down.

https://brew.link/p/G9Yxjy0YXu/espresso

What's been your favorite profile?

I bought a used KBT last night, with the old style tapered all stainless steel carafe, and I'm excited. It's only about 5 years old I think – some ebay seller got his hands on 60 used KBTs – how does that happen?

I'm disgusted with Fellow, and am going to replace my Aiden with the Moccamaster. Fellow actually did away with the function of a tiny, cheap, user replaceable part in the showerhead that was causing them warranty issues. It gets corroded, and since it's serves as a sensor combined with magnets, the machine starts throwing errors. I just experienced the error, and the replacement part fixed it.

But now, Fellow issued a firmware patch that actually does away with the function of the part, which warns you if you have the wrong showerhead setting relative to the basket you are using. Just a first world Fellow bell and whistle, but something they also marketed to the world, and now that their cheaply made part keeps failing, what do they do? They kill the part and the feature. Failed part, who needs it! It is called the Fellow Fix™, and they did it to save money, the hell with the customer and what we promised them, what we sold them.

Don't stand behind your product, don't fix a bad part, just eliminate the advertised function. Problem solved! So even though I just replaced the part, if I update the firmware, which happens automatically unless you delete the Aiden from the app, I lose the feature I just went to the trouble to get fixed.

How unMoccamaster of them. I have also been comparing in my mind the Aiden (which does makes pretty good coffee), with the Moccamaster, and I was wondering about the fact that there are no lids with hinges like the Aiden (both water reservoir and basket), and I thought I would have to remove the brew basket each time to load it, or clumsily manuever around the spray arm to place the filter and add the coffee.

Then I watched this 16 year old video. 16 years old, and that's my KBT (the Aiden would be long in the land fill). The spray arm can be moved to the side! I didn't know that. I've never seen anyone other than this gentleman do it. Everyone I've seen always removes the brew basket to install the filter and add the coffee. You don't have to! Maybe everyone knows this but me, but I am even more excited now. It's the little things. :)

One button, no wifi, no apps, no features removed by the Fellow Fix™, just great coffee from a great company that knows what "standing behind your product" means. Cheers!

https://youtu.be/dKoIs_oEM0Q?t=171

Was grinding some coffee this morning in my Ode gen 2 when I heard the gears lock up, within a second or so I reached over and turned it off. I didn’t hear it grind over and over mostly just lock up. I quickly I took it apart and found a rock that was in my beans. I’ve never closely evaluated any burs, does this look like significant damage or normal wear and tear? My ode is less than a year old with daily use one grind per day

Recently upgraded to espresso series 1 but having water pressure issues. The water pressure is all over the place. Settings and beans info below.

So I have an apartment that is to me perfect in size but I don’t have space for some of these larger coffee station setups I see on here. Thing is the wife said I can get a new machine and I decided on the fellow espresso 1. I’m leaning towards it because I do everything form espresso drinks to lattes, but my wife loves her iced coffee with like 3 different sweeteners 😀so I need a machine that’s easy for her to make her espresso with to and it seems that machine can give me the higher quality and lid I want and still be easy for her to use. Anyways I don’t have space. I’m trying to think about putting the grinder below in the cabinet and using it there or moving it to the opposite like across from the machine where I have some counter space enough for the grinder. Or if you guys have some other recommendations for a machine that probably isn’t as big. Idk honestly

And still a long way to go. Finally getting milk texture close to right.

Won’t drain… let it sit for a good 10min.

Edit: FIXED

1. Cleaned the carafe
2. Pulled basket out and cleaned it by running water through all parts, filling it, and compressing the spring to let water flow through 2-3x
3. Pulled spray head off (turn towards batch brew then keep going to pull it off) and cleaned it
4. Wiped everything down
5. Ran a flush cycle (have to use batch basket)

More than likely had grounds interfering with the spring in the basket.

Noticed when cleaning there is some sort of pressure cracks or stress cracks ! Could this be from coffee heat or expanding under heat when doing batch brew? Anyone else have this issue ?