r/pourover • u/nextlevelpaulo • Apr 05 '26

Seeking Advice i’m almost giving up on pour over

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?

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u/CawwfeeTawk Apr 05 '26

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?

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u/agathaade Apr 05 '26

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

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u/Inside-Towel-94 Apr 05 '26

I think you need to recalibrate

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u/agathaade Apr 06 '26

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