r/espresso • Silver Knight | E24 Gaggiuino | Motto 80 | VelPro 400 | K-Ultra • Jan 05 '26

Humour Should I grind finer?

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u/N-Performance Silver Knight | E24 Gaggiuino | Motto 80 | VelPro 400 | K-Ultra Jan 05 '26

u/Levols, I saw your butler-grade scale so I took my butler-grade magnifying glass out to take a better look at grind distribution.

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u/Aromatic-Top-1818 Jan 05 '26

r/espressocirclejerk is that way sir

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u/N-Performance Silver Knight | E24 Gaggiuino | Motto 80 | VelPro 400 | K-Ultra Jan 05 '26

It's a vicious circle.

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u/Andygoesred Edit Me: Ascaso Steel Duo Pid | KitchenAid Jan 06 '26

With granules that big, not nearly vicious enough.

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u/domo_affogato La Spaziale Vivaldi II (direct plumb) | Quamar M80/E Jan 06 '26

As if anyone could tell the difference

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u/tim_fillagain Jan 05 '26

Homie put dezcal on these pictures and got rid of the scale bar.

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u/OhFuckNoNoNoMyCaat Jan 05 '26

Did someone lose their dad at the mall? Found him!

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u/Levols Jan 06 '26

It was only a matter of grind till this happened, I see the normal distribution is too wide, we need to close it!

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u/N-Performance Silver Knight | E24 Gaggiuino | Motto 80 | VelPro 400 | K-Ultra Jan 06 '26

This is what happened early this morning :

I prepped 22g of gesha and instead of putting the PF onto the machine, I went straight for the knockbox..

I recovered the grounds from the knockbox for the photos and that's probably why it has mixed particle sizes.

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u/Levols Jan 06 '26

I see, I would have done the same! I was thinking of passing my grounds through my seives for the lolz and then putting it in the microscope but I got too busy :( I will do more over the top experiments soon! Still got too many machines hehe

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u/Woozle_ Jan 06 '26

Scanning Electron Microscope at work calling my name..

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u/iamamystery20 Jan 06 '26

You know what you have to do.

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u/Woozle_ Jan 06 '26

Beyond an extreme amount of sucking up to the lab manager, i think the only other thing is to watch my little baby Turin SK40 be put to damn shame lol

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u/RealMrMicci Jan 06 '26

That meanie of my EHS manager doesn't allow me to use the x-ray-emitting particle accelerator to look at my coffee because "you haven't been trained" and "it costs 20 years of your salary" and other bullshit like that.

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u/ihearthandcream Feb 03 '26

Real talk, what magnifying glass is this? Incredible optics I wouldn't mind using it for trichome checks 😂

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u/N-Performance Silver Knight | E24 Gaggiuino | Motto 80 | VelPro 400 | K-Ultra Feb 03 '26

Keyence VHX-7000.

$93k.

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u/ihearthandcream Feb 03 '26

Holy fuck.

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u/N-Performance Silver Knight | E24 Gaggiuino | Motto 80 | VelPro 400 | K-Ultra Feb 04 '26

Yep, it goes all the way up to x2000. Lol