Upper Burr vs Outer Dial Grind Setting | Breville Barista

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The Breville Barista range of espresso machines (the Express, Pro, and Touch) all come equipped with both a micro grind adjustment knob, as well as a macro grind adjustment that is accomplished through steps on the upper burr. But which one should you use? And how many steps on the outer dial does one step on the upper burr equal to? In this video, we find out exactly that!

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[dawebman]

Wish you had done that 1.5 years ago when I too was trying to figure that out. My initial assumption was that it gave you a full new range, but after a pile of testing and troubleshooting I came to the same conclusion that it shifted the outer grind settings by 3. Before going through all this I had asked on reddit subs, Breville support, other BE owners; no one had the answer. Anyways, this was good to share for the masses.Thanks!

[noahthrall]

This video couldn’t be better. Packed with info, to the point, short and sweet. Liked, subbed, commented…

Amazing.

[sonivex]

That was a fantastic topic for a video. I always wondered that myself. Thanks for taking the time to experiment and break it down for us. Great job!

[ppthomas]

Finally! Always wondered what was the trade-off between inner and outer burr settings.

[hisgreatness]

Thanks for the huge effort in data gathering! Much appreciated it!

[FrankDeMarco-tg]

I found this video and chart very useful, thanks for the effort and sharing it! In somewhat related question, how often should you replace the upper burr?

[Resist]

I know this video is a few years old but I just got the Breville Barista Express and it's all new to me. I couldn't quite figure out why there is a grind adjustment for the upper burr and another adjustment on the side grind, but finally this video explained it. But I wish you had a link to that chart you made.

[terrancewang]

this needs to be remembered as part of human history’ a finest

[Ghruuul]

Crazy, everyone who has this machine and is struggling with grind settings should see this.

[goslinky]

the information i exactly needed! very detailed and (now) easy to understand!

[lucatonipeperoni]

Interesting findings. Can confirm (barista pro). I was at the upper 6 and external 1 and it didnt work for my beans. Changed the upper to 4 so I have more room to play (italian beens, fine grind, italian espresso). I'm most of the time dialed in with the upper 4, external 4-6

[lucaspaciencia]

those charts really help a lot, I was somewhat confuse with how I should play in the dial, but now i got more guidance.

thanks for the videos, your channel is really great 👍

[bliblablubb]

Interessting indeed. That must have been a lot of work to go through all these settings! I actually found out the same on my Pro. It was always 3 steps. My aim was to use the 7 on the external setting since I like the number :)

[jason_chan]

Wow thank you for doing this! Please don’t tell me you tasted all of these too!

I have always wondered how much of an impact moving the burr setting had overall. I use a Barista Pro and after about a year, settled on 5 on the burr and for most beans 4-6 on the external knob. That’s just my experience but am glad to see there is quite a bit of range here.

[tsujii_]

Thank you for this! I’ve had mine for over a year now and has never touched the upper burr but have been planning to do so lately. 😅

[msoelling]

This was exactly what I was looking for!

[jsarguitar]

Huge, great video. Do we assume that the grinds are the same in general (idk shape, fine-ness, I'm new here) on the lowest upper burr and highest outer vs highest upper burr and lowest outer dial? Are these adjustments both adjusting the same grinding device i.e. is there only 1 grinder they are adjusting? Thanks so much for this video!

[mavericktechreview]

Thank you for your hard work to give us a ball park figure to play around. This saves us lots of coffee beans!

[CastilloJMan]

This is exactly the information I was looking for!!!! 10/10 Thank you!!!