This methods starts with an uneven tamp, which is achieved by rotating and angling the tamper through 360° in the filter basket, before a lightly pressured tamp ...

Duration: 8:19
Posted: Apr 21, 2022

A good tamp creates resistance (with evenly compacted coffee) that makes the brewing water work hard to saturate the grounds and extract all of that great ...

Mar 7, 2021 · In reality, the impact of a harder tamp is unlikely to change the flow rate at all. The real solution is to adjust your grinder coarser or finer ...

The idea of tamping is to make sure the water doesn't pass through the grounds too quickly, which it will if the grounds are too loose and uneven. If espresso ...

Grasp your tamper as if you are shaking hands with a doorknob, and apply light, even, and equal force to the coffee bed. Use the sides of your thumb and ...

Duration: 0:49
Posted: Oct 14, 2021

Duration: 10:04
Posted: Jan 20, 2022

Feb 14, 2023 · So the only way to make coffee for me is to grind too coarse or tamp relatively softly. So I grind fine but tamp softly to get decent taste. But ...

Oct 21, 2022 · What Is Tamping? For the totally uninitiated, tamping describes the process of compacting the coffee grounds into the portafilter basket. To ...