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My cheap grinder was making my pour-over taste sour, so I started sifting out the fines with a kitchen strainer.
It took the acidity way down and gave me a cleaner cup, even with my $30 grinder. Anyone else use a weird hack like this to fix a gear problem?
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iris_adams22d ago
That's a clever fix for a common problem. I've been there with a grinder that made more dust than grounds. It's amazing what a little kitchen ingenuity can do when you're not ready to drop money on a new machine. My version of that was using a small paintbrush to sweep stray grounds off my kitchen scale.
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faith_palmer5122d ago
Honestly, that seems like a lot of extra work for a small fix. You're losing a good amount of coffee mass by sifting out fines, which changes your brew ratio. That could lead to over-extraction in its own way, making the coffee taste bitter instead of sour. You might just be trading one bad taste for another.
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