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

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

im still pretty new to espresso but i got a DF54 from MiiCoffee and its amazingggg. just make sure to brush out the shoot that the coffee comes out every time to avoid a clog. It’s very quiet and sleek.

I have recently received a DF54 from mii coffee and had major clogging issues. They reached out and provided a video detailing adjusting the metal declumper (I have the V3) which I now believe I mistakenly bent outward too much without knowing what I was doing. Anyway, got the adjustment made which

Super solid advice here (Bambino/Sage) and how I got started myself. That machine can pull great shots, especially with good beans and a grinder. Another good option is MiiCoffee Apex Espresso Machine V2. A little more to play with but still a starter machine. As u/mycats said already - but worth em

These grinders are all built to a price point for sale domestically in China as well, so I like evaluating them based on their Chinese price bracket. Even then, the DF54 is positioned as a more premium grinder than the GF64, though just barely. Actually kind of interesting since these grinders are s

My DF54 came with misaligned burrs and I had a similar issue to what you're describing here. There are some good videos about flat burr alignment (I found Lance Hedrick's useful, there's also one from MiiCoffee I think focused on the DF54 itself). Took some trial and error over a couple of hours but

The Profitec DRIVE is the sister machine to the ECM Synchronika II. You might also consider the Profitec RIDE, which is a little less expensive. When choosing a grinder you first want to decide between a "Hopper Style" grinder (Specialita) and a "Single Dose" grinder (Oro). Some people want a hopper

I've bought DF54 and an Apex v2 espresso machine from MiiCoffee and they been ok. Still answering my questions after a year.

My usual budget machine post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1pemyi9/comment/nshft26/ But I'll extrapolate some algebra into levels and see what the sub thinks. Each step represents an improvement in both ease and quality/taste, from cheapest to decent cheap: $170 = 1Zpresso Q Ai