Coffee maker: Cuisinart Model DGB-1
Single cup grind and brew coffeemaker
On father's day, my daughter gifted me a cuisinart coffee maker. She told me "I have bought it from Costco, so if you don't like it, you know where to return ". I said "Understood, dear".
I am used to making pour over coffee. I grind the coffee beans, boil the water in a kettle and pour boiling water over the ground beans.
So I tried my new father's day gift and I observed the following:
1) Water temperature 140° degrees Fahrenheit, that's a good temperature to extract coffee from the beans.
(However, I would have preferred water temperature to be around 190° degrees Fahrenheit).
2) The coffee beans are ground and via centrifugal force they are sprayed into the coffee filter through a small rectangular chamber.
3) Hot water enters through a hole and wet most of the beans, unlike some espresso machines which wet only part of the beans. Whereby the wet part is over extracted and the other part of coffee beans are not extracted at all. This way cuisinart coffee maker requires less coffee beans.
But here's the problem:
• Whenever you make coffee, some coffee gets clogged in the rectangular chamber.
So this is what happens:
• 1st cup of coffee, "aah, highway to heaven "
• 2nd cup of coffee "this is great coffee, thanks to my daughter "
• 3rd cup, suddenly the coffee becomes milder.
• By the 5th cup, its like I am drinking only hot water . Where did all the coffee disappear ? it made all the sound of grinding coffee!
• To solve the mystery, I began operation beanstar and I opened the chambers and discovered that the rectangular chamber was completely clogged and so no coffee powder was passing through.
• So I cleaned the rectangular chamber, the grinder etc. Now I do this after every 5 cups of coffee. If i forget, then I end up drinking hot water.
Single cup grind and brew coffeemaker
On father's day, my daughter gifted me a cuisinart coffee maker. She told me "I have bought it from Costco, so if you don't like it, you know where to return ". I said "Understood, dear".
I am used to making pour over coffee. I grind the coffee beans, boil the water in a kettle and pour boiling water over the ground beans.
So I tried my new father's day gift and I observed the following:
1) Water temperature 140° degrees Fahrenheit, that's a good temperature to extract coffee from the beans.
(However, I would have preferred water temperature to be around 190° degrees Fahrenheit).
2) The coffee beans are ground and via centrifugal force they are sprayed into the coffee filter through a small rectangular chamber.
3) Hot water enters through a hole and wet most of the beans, unlike some espresso machines which wet only part of the beans. Whereby the wet part is over extracted and the other part of coffee beans are not extracted at all. This way cuisinart coffee maker requires less coffee beans.
But here's the problem:
• Whenever you make coffee, some coffee gets clogged in the rectangular chamber.
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| Bean chamber clean |
So this is what happens:
• 1st cup of coffee, "aah, highway to heaven "
• 2nd cup of coffee "this is great coffee, thanks to my daughter "
• 3rd cup, suddenly the coffee becomes milder.
• By the 5th cup, its like I am drinking only hot water . Where did all the coffee disappear ? it made all the sound of grinding coffee!
• To solve the mystery, I began operation beanstar and I opened the chambers and discovered that the rectangular chamber was completely clogged and so no coffee powder was passing through.
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| Bean chamber clogged |
