Sage BCG820BSSUK the Smart Grinder Pro Coffee Grinder - Silver

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Grinding Mechanism: Stainless Steel conical burr grinder efficiently designed to minimise grinding heat and protect the essential oils in the coffee bean.

The grind size is separate, there’s not one programmable setting for dose and grind size. I usually start off at 12, and go from there based on flow rate. I’m looking for 36g of espresso from 18g of coffee, in 28-32 seconds. So if it flows faster than that, I’ll go slightly finer – and if it flows slower than that, I’ll go slightly more course. But if you’re not weighing your beans, you’re not in full control of the dose, which is an important factor for getting the desired extraction. Another factor is tamp pressure, try to keep the tamp pressure the same each time. I was using the double shot basket, so it was obvious to me that I needed to press the 2 shots button. By the way, the reason the text “shots/cups” appears under this button, if you're grinding for espresso the digital screen will display “shots” allowing you to toggle between 1 and 2 cups, for the single or double shot baskets, and if you're grinding for manual brew methods this will change on the screen to “cups”. Have I mentioned how smart this grinder is!? 😉

It's worth pointing out that they didn't have a clue who I was, I didn't even bother saying on the phone “I run coffeeblog.co.uk” etc., even if I did, coffeeblog probably had three readers at the time, and one of them was my mum, so I doubt it would have made much of a difference ;-). It's just ridiculously user-friendly, and that's the main thing I have to say about most Sage machines, really, they seem to think of just about everything to make them as idiot-proof as possible, although to be fair even Sage couldn't do quite a good enough job of that with this idiot, as I couldn't figure out to start with how to get the Gaggia classic portafilter to rest in the portafilter cradle.

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I remember being impressed with the attention to detail not only where features are concerned, but also with the bits it comes with. For example, you get two sizes of portafilter cradle, one for the standard 58mm portafilter size, and one for the Sage 54mm portafilters that you'll find on the Sage Bambino and Bambino Plus for example. If you do want to work with light roasts, by the way, just keep in mind that you'll need a more commercial-grade grinder for that. Grinders that can cope with much harder beans often have a much higher powered motor, and a gearing system that transforms the motor power into torque, and all of the componentry would usually (hopefully) be sturdy enough to cope with grinding much lighter roasted beans. How Good is The Smart Grinder Pro for Manual Brew Methods?