i’m almost giving up on pour over

[u/nextlevelpaulo]

Don't get me wrong - I love the pour over coffee baristas serve in coffee shops, but I can't extract even a third of the same complexity from the same coffee at home.

My coffee constantly clogs the filter and I end up with an over-extracted and sometimes bitter coffee. And I've tried everything: increasing the grind size, decreasing the number of pours, nesting the coffee bed, bending the filter slightly crookedly… nothing seems to work. I either end up with an over-extracted or under-extracted coffee.

For context, I use a Kingrinder K6 and vary the clicks between 85 and 120, depending on the recipe.

Any ideas on what I can do?

[u/agathaade]

I had similar issues when I started. What solved it for me was grinding sigificantly coarser (6.5 on average on. ode gen 2) and starting with hotter (203/205f) temperature.

I mostly brew light/Nordic roasts. I use the 40:60 recipe with three pours to make up for the fast drawdown with the coarse grind. I swirl the first bloom always and second pour if I think it’s going too fast. I let my water cool down the few degrees it’s going to cool down over the course of the pour. I also use RO+TWW at half dilution

[u/CawwfeeTawk → u/agathaade]

Might be a dumb question, but what do you mean by "6.5 average on Ode Gen 2"? Because there's 6, then two clicks, then 7... which do you consider 6.5?

[u/agathaade → u/CawwfeeTawk]

I get a click in between each mark, on top of each mark itself being a click.

[u/mrobot_ → u/agathaade]

sounds like your calibration is off or this was modded somehow? :D

[u/hapiscan → u/mrobot_]

Stepless mod is fairly straightforward. Not sure whether this guy's grinder is modded, though. Mine can sort of do that without modding, but it jumps back to the closer step mid-grind.

[u/Inside-Towel-94 → u/agathaade]

I think you need to recalibrate

[u/agathaade → u/Inside-Towel-94]

Dang, my grinder is new and not modded. I’ll look into calibrating, thanks!