Manual Dosing; Tamping The Ground Coffee; Trimming The Dose; Purging The Group Head - Breville Barista Express Instruction Book

Manual Dosing

• If you prefer to manually dose, with the
portafilter inserted in the grinding cradle,
push and hold the portafilter to engage the
grinding activation switch. Continue holding
until the desired amount of ground coffee
has been dosed.
• To stop grinding, release the portafilter.
This will release the grinding activation
switch and stop the grinding function.

Tamping the Ground Coffee

• Once grinding is complete, carefully
withdraw the portafilter from the
grinding cradle.
• Tap the portafilter several times to collapse
and distribute the coffee evenly in the
filter basket.
• Tamp down firmly using approx. 30–40lbs
(15–20kgs) of pressure. The amount of
pressure is not as important as consistent
pressure every time.
• As a guide to dose, the top edge of the metal
cap on the tamper should be level with the
top of the filter basket AFTER the coffee has
been tamped.

Trimming the Dose

The Razor™ precision dose trimming tool
allows you to trim the puck to the right level for
a consistent extraction.
Razor
the
Precision dose trimming tool
• Insert the Razor™ dose trimming tool into
the filter basket until the shoulders of the tool
rest on the rim of the basket. The blade of
the dose trimming tool should penetrate the
surface of the tamped coffee.
• Rotate the Razor™ dose trimming tool back
and forth while holding the portafilter on
an angle over a knock box to trim off excess
coffee grinds. Your filter basket is now dosed
with the correct amount of coffee.
• Wipe excess coffee from the rim of the filter
basket to ensure a proper seal is achieved in
the group head.

Purging the Group Head

Before placing the portafilter into the group
head, run a short flow of water through the
group head by pressing the 1 CUP button.
This will stabilize the temperature prior
to extraction.
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