Encore ESP Pro

Wow, some of the reviews of the grinder at WS are pretty (damning). I haven't had those negative experiences, at least to that degree. The worst I have had is that a few beans (1-5) sometimes (but not always) may not get fed into the grinding chamber--but I also use dark-roast beans, the kind that e

No advice for improvement from my side, just here to say that you're not alone. Got myself a Bambino Plus and a Baratza Encore ESP PRO a few weeks ago. I'm really struggling. I use a shaker for the grounds, spring-loaded tamper, manual mode with a scale to measure output. Brew times are all over the

I don't get retention with the Baratza Encore ESP Pro. I occasionally will get a few beans (1-5) not automatically going down into the feeding tube; the fact that I do dark roasts may be a contributing cause. (And just today, I had one bean on top of another, like acrobats, not getting past the anti