DF54

Yeah from factory DF54 worked fine only for light and medium roast coffee and for Dark Roast it was clumping pretty hard Miicoffee thankfully mailed Metal De-clumper along with a chute upgrade for the ionizer and I am not seeing this issue for the past 4months since the upgrade. One more thing to en

The best bang for buck entry-level gear, IMO, is the Breville Bambino ($250) and DF54 ($250). Highly recommend a separate grinder as you can then upgrade one or the other as you like. You’ll also want a basic 0.1g scale, e.g. MiiCoffee Nano ($35).

something that is going to last. With this in mind... Breville and Delonghi machines are not known for their longevity. Plastic chassis, plastic tubes, they're not really made for long term (10+ year) reliability. You mentioned the Delonghi La Specialista... All-in-one machines aren't recommended he

Love my DF54 and use a metal catch cup. I just use the bellows thoroughly for each dose and clean the shoot 1-2x a month and it’s great I do recommend 2-3 spritzes of water as RDT and haven’t had any issues. Enjoy your grinder Fwiw, I bought via MiiCoffee and they did a good job

Maybe not preference, but from what I've gathered from my recent purchase is that you can get an S-tier manual grinder for the price of a C-tier or D-tier electric grinder And the cost of entry is much lower. The cheapest reliable electric grinder option seems to be a Baratza Encore ESP ($200 USD),

I highly recommend getting six or so small 2 oz glasses and pulling a salami shot. Chris Baca explained it well years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aD33p4_fJo Basically sour means shorter/darker/cooler and bitter is the opposite end of the scale and longer/lighter/warmer. A salami shot will

I can't recommend something in the Eureka Mignon line enough. I have a Libra, but many below grind the same. Their product line is too complicated and it changes every year, I'm pretty sure to obfuscate and segment the market. So I made a break down of each Mignon here: https://www.reddit.com/user/d

Acho que eu fui um pouco otimista :) Eu recomendaria esses 4 (mas tem outros nessa faixa de preço): Baratza Encore, Tramontina by Breville, MiiCoffee DF54 e Starseeker E55. Não são moedores baratos e você também não sinalizou quais métodos costuma usar. Dependendo do seu método, pode ser que algum d

I had a DF54 for about 2 months. Every week it would completely clog (using rdt and hot starting, bellows pumping…) and I would have to disassemble it. Definitely not what I wanted to do in the mornings before I had any coffee. Although it’s an entry grinder, I want a $230 grinder to function consis

I suspect the grinder is mostly the issue with consistency. And flavor. The minimum viable "adequate" grinder is roughly $250, the usual recommendations here being the Baratza ESP and MiiCoffee/Turin DF54, possibly the new Fellow Opus 2 (although definitely avoid the first one, speaking from experie