Best Grind Setting for Espresso - Dialing In

What's the best grind setting for espresso? It's the most important variable in making excellent espresso and often misunderstood by beginners. Learn how to dial in grind size for espresso in this video for beginners. Select the right coffee, learn time espresso extractions... about tools including scales, tampers, distributors and levelers. Find out how much coffee to use, get tips and techniques for easy espresso success. Learn how to weigh and measure coffee and espresso and how to kinda get by without a scale.

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Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
Coffee Selection & Tools 01:42
Starting Grind Size 03:27
How Much Coffee? 04:23
Tamping & Leveling 05:51
Shot Timing 07:20
Dial In 10:58
Tips for Success 11:53

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[precisionsoundworksstudio]

Another excellent vid. Not only is the delivery and presentation top notch, the video quality and editing is fantastic!

[dfdot]

One of the best videos I've ever seen for my skill level. Thank you

[ferologics]

this guys voice should be on national tv or something

[janjaylicas]

Thank you for the video. It is the clearest explanation and demo on how to dial in.

[AA-SFO]

Great video. One other variable that I have not seen mentioned much, alongside grind size, is brew boiler temperature. I had been getting a lot of bitter espresso no matter how I adjusted the grind. Then it was suggested by a barista (for the coffee I was using) to decrease my brew temperature from 202-203 range down to 198. Now the tasting notes of the coffee are very present. I had been cooking them out with the higher temperature.

[michaelroselli]

WLL is the GOAT. Thank you for years of education and insights!

[airgunsandstuffyorkshire]

8:35 this is the most helpful way i have seen dialing in explained. I will be using this method. Thank you.

[SSturges]

Cool vid, thanks..! Although not beginner stuff, my wife worked for Starbucks in Vancouver, Canada, back in the early 90's when they still used bulk beans in the grinder and espresso machine. She would talk about sometimes changing the grind through out the day as the barometric pressure changed the machines themselves, , sometimes 3-4 times...

[mohamsoft]

thanks for NOT playing an annoying music loop in the background. very informative with your professional amazing voice :D

[cigarnationwarriors]

Mark, you always present meaningful and helpful videos. Thank you.

[claytomovel]

Best video quality on Youtube. Congratulations to the WLL team!

[elishmittywerminghanjensen]

Great video for reminders on the basics too! Always good to review and reflect on current workflow to make sure you're not lacking anywhere.

[Elfin]

I had a Breville/Sage grinder and just purchased a Mahlkonig X54 to accompany my new Bezzera Aria. Can't believe how finer the grind I can now achieve and how that translates to fantastic coffee extraction. I was having real problems getting good results as just couldn't get the coffee fine enough, now I can really hone down the finer elements for that perfect coffee.

[rossbrown]

I think all grinders should come with a calibration that indicates what the burr separation is, in microns (0.001mm), for the graduations on their grind dials. It would then be a good starting point for transferring settings from one grinder to another.

[rickstokes]

On my Breville Touch Pro with a 54mm basket I’m set at a grind of 12 at 19 seconds on a bottomless filter with a porta screen and get a perfect double shot pull.

[coldcoffeehk]

Excellent video to the new espresso beginner like me. Thanks!

[O.G.Alphaborn]

Thank You Marc. I am starting to see less and less light as I look up. 🤔

[eralasch]

As to my experience, grinders do have inertion far beyond a couple of seconds grinding after having changed the grind size. My Silenzio stabilizes on a new grind size normally after having processed 3 times 18g.

[TheYorkshireVlogger]

Brilliant video. Thank you very much for the helpful tips.

[cssc]

Now, even if you are using the same grinder as me, that doesn't mean you should be grinding .8

YOU HAVE TO DIAL IN FOR YOUR COFFEE and other brewing variables.

Thank you! This is the mistakr I was making as I tried to follow "world barista champ recipes" instead of finding the perfect blend of variables.