Adjust your Coffee Hand Grinder to find Zero Calibration | Alternative Brewing
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2019
- Finding your Zero point on a coffee hand grinder is easier than it sounds. It will help you grind for espresso and other brew methods easier and more consistent.
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0:40 What's the Zero Setting?
0:53 How to find the Zero Setting
1:23 What now?
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Once you have calibrated your hand grinder than you would simply count the clicks easy time you open the grinder coarse to keep track of your settings. For instance you may know your V60 setting is 4 clicks from 0, where as your ideal aeropress grind is 7 clicks from 0.
All hand grinders will differ in the clicks and their ability to grind.
Finding the 0 point is the same 0 point for every grinder though.
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Seriously, this has got to be one of the most straight forward, least bullshitty instructional videos on RUclips. Super useful. Thanks man.
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Wow, finally!! None of the grinder reviews ever discussed clearly about how to reset it to zero! So thank you! Subscribing now.
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@@AlternativeBrewing this was really helpful, all help online just talks about how many clicks from the finest setting but I thought finest setting was turning the adjusting nut until it’s impossible to twist it further and I’d go 3-4 clicks from there for espresso and it just came out rly rly slow.
Love this! Super useful information given in such a short time… cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video is what made me subscribe. Genuinely the only clear method I've seen so far!
wow! thanks so much 😀
Thank you so much for this! I just recently got sent a hand grinder by my mom, and the first grind I ever got from it was SUPER coarse. Thanks for the tip 👏
That is awesome!
Oh my God this is so helpful, especially for beginners like me. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Excellent, straight forward method to find zero. Thank you!
Exactly what I needed!
I bought that cheap grinder from Ikea months ago, this is the first video that spoke about finding Zero. Thank you!!
Glad I could help!
Mind blown! Perfect!
thank you so much! i was looking for exactly that kind of a video!
Glad it was helpful!
This is perfect and exactly what I want to know! Thanks buddy!
No problem!
Genius. Brilliantly simple video.
Thank you kindly!
Thanks for the tip Josh!
You're welcome!
my grinder came without a user manual. videos like this really help. thnkx
Glad I could help
Helpful, thanks
Thank you!
Fantastic work ! easy to understand Thanks so much !
Great to hear!
Great video, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely genius
Very helpful! 👍
Excellent info. Thanks a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
That's incredible!!!
Saved my beans! My grinder was making too fine of a grind and throwing off the flavor of my brew. I was ready to throw the batch of beans out until I read about how grind coarseness can affect flavor. Now I can fine tune my grinder to right where I need it.
Well I learned something new today! Thank you.
My pleasure!
Super helpful! Thank you
You're welcome!
I second muchas gracias comments below. This must be one of the most useful pieces of information I have ever seen on youtube. Great help. Thanks mate.
Thanks so much!
Thank you very much for the video sir!
My pleasure!
So useful 👍❤️
Thanks!
Excellent keep it up
Thanks a lot
I was looking every where for this lol
Me and you both
Excellent instructions. Is there a chart for the subsequent adjustment for the various brews. I use drip (flat basket), French press, and siphon.
we'll have to make one 👌
My burrs at scraping 1/3 of the rotation before locking. Is it supposed to do that?
Hey, thanks for video, it's very straightforward, but what if the lever does not fall off in any configuration? I've noticed that in the tightest setting lever is unmoveable, is it possible to count it from that kind of point?
Yes , thats the best place to count from 👍
This is great. How many clicks on a skerton pro for a V60 pour down brew please? I am very new to this and need some help.
Hi there, I would use 5 - 6 clicks 👍
Great job! Quick question. How many clicks with the Rhino for an automatic drip coffemaker with flat-bottom filters?
Thanks so much. I would say one half turn to 3/4 turn from the zero point.
Great! Thanks. Newbie here. How many clicks on the Hario Skerton Pro to get course coffee for a French Press?
hi Jaime welcome to the brewniverse - go for 14+ clicks 👌
Thanks - just got a Porlex Mini and was lost until I found this video - but concerned. Should the full circle be 100% even? I have about two clicks of 'stutter' before it stops. Does this mean the grinder is defective? To better explain, I don't have a full fall of the handle for about 2-3 clicks before the handle doesn't fall at all.
I'm not aware of any issues that would cause this and you will have a bit of grabbing of the burrs as you tighten it, but I would to be safe, take the ZERO point from where the handle no longer falls. Try holding the grinder body too at a 45º angle as opposed to a 90º and see if this helps 👍
Excuse, i have a question i lost the Grind adjustment is it fine no problem or what ??!
What's your recommendation for clicks on the Hario Skerton Pro for the Hario v60
4-5 clicks 👌
This is great. However, can you be sure it applies for all grinders? I have the Timemore C3 and using your method, the zero point I found was 2 steps different from what the "turn until you cant turn anymore" method yielded. So now I am unsure as to what the real zero is.
good point - and quite possibly not applicable to all grinders. If the Grinder comes with instruction on the ZERO point - than follow this 👌 if no instructions - this is a great start for counting up to replicable grind settings
@@AlternativeBrewing yeah to be honest, i'm still not sure what to do on my c3 after reading a dozen reddit threads :)
How do you find zero on the Lume portable burr grinder when it doesn't have a handle? Would you bring the burrs as close together as the nut will allow, and assume that is 0?
That's correct - be sure not to turn the Grinder on at this stage as you don't want to force the motor to turn against the ceramic burrs.
So If you're able to view the gap between the burrs as you tighten it finer - the moment the burrs touch and there's no more gap between them - this is the Zero point - or close enough to it.
Thanks for the video, my grinder came with no instructions.
You are welcome!
Does the zero of a grinder change over time, or does it always remain the same?
Zero is a constant figure that won't change.. It's where the burrs touch together and no coffee will be able to grind through. Your grind settings will change though. If your burrs become worn down over time, you'll need to grind finer to get a similar grind size - this would take more than 120kgs of beans before this would happen. For example.. you started brewing aeropress with a setting - 0 +6 clicks. As the burrs worn down, you noticed you had to grind at 0 +4clicks to get the same size beans - this would be a good indication of the burrs wearing down.
This might sound like a dumb question, but wouldn't zero just be the point where the nut stops screwing (ie at its tightest?)
Yes - It would be good if it were this way across all HGs. .. but the issue is that some grinders nuts - screw against the burrs far more than others - so a setting of 1 and you may still not get any coffee out of the burrs
This way of checking the zero point ensures the moment you begin to coarsen the setting you'll get grounds. 👌
Exactly. But "until you cant turn anymore" means different thing for different people based on strength and the subjective interpretation of how hard to turn. I wish my handgrinder took this into account and had a clear "stop" point
Everyone recommends c.6-8 clicks on the Porlex Mini Hand-grinder for a Hario V60. I’ve always assumed that was in reference to from the fully tightened position instead of the zero point. Looking forward to trying this out tomorrow morning!
Well, in theory those should be the same thing. If they instruct us to turn until we cant turn anymore, there better be some mechanism or design feature to ensure that is a clear cutting point, for most people, not something you need to guess on. I'm not even that strong but can easily push my grinder 2 more clicks under what this video"s method gave me as zero.
Could you please tell why there is a need for searching for the "zero point", as it is not the tightest position. If I set the grinder to the tightest point and make one rotation, I get very fine coffee. However, given the comment before, related to the point zero - " It's where the burrs touch together and no coffee will be able to grind through. ", it does not add up. It seems that the burrs touch together not at the "point zero" but at the tightest position of the grinder.
So the zero point would be best described as the setting one click finer than the last setting you can grind coffee out with. - Though with some hand grinders - the zero setting is in fact 3-4 or more clicks away from the true finest setting.. and than, as is the case with ceramic burrs, there's usually 2 or more settings from the Zero point before coffee will be ground out. So it's just moving the scale up from the true finest setting, usually where the burrs touch, but not always the case.. and be able to relate to the settings quickly for more of a functional understanding of what grind size you're actually using ... otherwise we only have micron sizes to refer to
@@AlternativeBrewing Thank you very much for clarifications!
How many turns for espresso grind
2-3 clicks max 👌
actually you can turn the dail clockwise until it does not move any further, another way too
Ok so the problem is that while grinding, my grind unjust undoes itself about 2.5 full rotations. So I would have to "re find" the 0 point every single cup of coffee I make. That seems brutal considering within the grinding for 1 cup itself, I have grind coming out at all different "settings" (as the dang thing undoes itself slowly). I think the real answer may be that those responsible for the fiszman brand grinder products belong behind bars. ('FISSMAN' Ukraine)
I mean how come they don’t put it on the box?
true! 1zpresso and Comandante have great resources for their Grinders 👌
My lever doesnt fall off or just fall off slowly lol
Thats why i dont know where the zero point is bcs even it grinds coarse it still doesnt fall off
Very useful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!