Questions & Answers for: tamp

knocked out spent coffe grounds come out mushy not like a puck mushy spent grounds and after removing coffee filter holder there is water leaking brew unit this is a new unit got it for Xmas have ...

...K cups and grinds the coffee tastes waterdown. Is the machine defective? for grounds you need to tamp the ground hard,. Fill the port a filter to the top then tamp it until the little line is ...

Is it neccesary to tamp the crushed rock in a basement floor prior to pouring concrete? If you want a rough surface, do not tamp.

...same issue occurred. Help, the caffeine is wearing off. The coffee grind is too fine, or you are tamping too hard, First remove the portafilter and press the brew button if water flows move on if ...

water (cooler bottles). Try to grind your beans to a good consistancy.Breville recomends about 10kg tamping pressure, use a set of scales to check the feel.Tamp to about 3-5 mm below rim of grouphead

...will help, may have to replace it. 4. Likeliest source of problem is coffee ground too fine and/or tamped down too hard. These are not professional level machines and cannot work with very fine

when should i use a tamper digging bar? Tamper bars are used when you have tightly packed dirt full of rocks and you need to loosen it up and then tamp it down. You can also use this bar to dig post ...

I can achieve normal pressure only by using dual wall baskets. When using single wall basket pressure gauge displays low water pressure and I get sour coffee with no crema. What may be a reason? ...

...grounds when lever is raised on my La Pavoni Europiccola. Hi your grind is to course and or your tamp is to loose. Even with the right grind and tamp water will filter down through the puck ...

...with the ground coffee and nothing comes out when you go to pull the shot, it means you probably tamped too hard and or your grind was too fine and you tamped with too much pressure so you choked ...