Encore

Former coffee professional here (sourced greens and worked for a 3rd wave roaster) The best things you can do, without falling into a rabbit hole are: Buy high quality/whole bean coffee, use a burr grinder right before you brew your coffee, and use a scale to ensure a proper ratio of coffee to water

Vanuit BIFL oogpunt is dat simpel. Aan volautomaten kan meer kapot gaan en die zullen ook sneller kapot gaan. Zeker een DeLonghi. Dat is een budgetapparaat en in geen enkel opzicht BIFL. Grote kans dat die binnen 4-5 jaar versleten is. Als je een BIFL volautomaat wil, zul je voor een professionele J

Are you into fresh coffee? Maybe a nice coffee grinder? You can get a Baratza Encore for around £150. Add a V60 or Aeropress from Amazon for a few quid and you can have very good coffee at home

I'm in the Netherlands and have had great support from Baratza for my encore ESP. I sent them an email asking about some discolouration on my burrset that looked like damage. They confirmed it was fine and sent me a new burr carrier for free because they weren't sure from the pictures if it was inta

I owned an encore from about 2008-2019 when I upgraded to a Virtuoso. Not because the machine didn’t work properly, but I was just jonesing. I had to replace the ring burrs twice on the Encore—a simple and inexpensive fix. The Virtuoso had been improperly re-assembled and needed to be returned and r

The Barataza Encore is a great choice. Not too expensive and you can buy repair parts. I have used one for years. https://www.baratza.com/en-us/product/encore-zcg485

Don’t get an all in one machine. Budget for a separate grinder. The Baratza Encore ESP is probably the cheapest mechanical espresso grinder that has decent longevity, repairability, and value for money. Some will recommend the Fellow Opus 2 at a similar price but I personally can’t recommend Fellow

I use a Baratza Encore. Nothing wrong with that. It grinds enough to make a good shot. What more do you need?

Yeah... I had the exact opposite customer service, with the previous model of encore. Same burr holder issues. I had to change it 3 times. Each time, in the EU, parts were not available so I had to get them from Canada. Each time, shipment was 2 times the price of the part, and baratza ignored all m

Your dark beans are almost certainly the reason grinder is clogging but as others have said replace or remove the declumper first maybe. If this doesn’t work then something like- eureka notte/manuale ,- Eureka zero , or the more expensive models below - Eureka silenzio ,- Eureka specialita. These ar