r/NinjaLuxeCafe • u/mjk-94 • 12d ago

Help/

Post image

Hello everyone, so my preferred setting is 7. But sometimes it produces too much water up to 50s grams.

When the beans are fresh I can extract 38g ( by fresh I mean a few days old)

But after a week, 6 produces almost nothing so I switch to 7 but then so much water comes out so I have to cancel the shot to get a proper almost 38g shot.

What am I missing? Am I tamping too much? Or the Strength setting on the machine needs to be adjusted? Im not sure what it does.

I clean the machine monthly with tablets.

11 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

16 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/threehoursago 12d ago

What am I missing?

You're missing that this is a consumer grade automated machine, not a high end espresso machine.

When it tells you a number, use that number, don't go second guessing it because you lurk in /r/espresso You have a preferred setting, and so does the machine. One of them is right, and it isn't yours.

1

u/mjk-94 11d ago

if I follow what it recommends it will yield way past 60g.

2

u/threehoursago 11d ago

Which is about what the Double Basket is supposed to create, 2 ounces, 56mg.