Took me 6 months to realize my grinder burrs were installed upside down

I kept getting inconsistent grounds no matter how much I dialed in my dose and timing. Turns out I had the upper burr carrier flipped the wrong way since I assembled it back in March. Has anyone else made a dumb assembly mistake that cost them months of bad coffee?

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tessa_kim35d ago

Six months of bad coffee and you're just now figuring out the burrs were upside down? That sounds like a user error problem, not a grinder design issue. Most manuals clearly show which way the burr carrier faces, and if you missed that during assembly, maybe the grinder wasn't the broken piece. Plenty of people never touch their burrs and make great coffee for years. Maybe the real issue is spending too much time tinkering and not enough time just brewing. Shouldn't you have noticed something was off after the first week instead of waiting half a year?

tarak175d agoMost Upvoted

See idk, I mean a lot of those manuals have tiny diagrams that are easy to misread and it's not like every grinder is super intuitive. I think six months is a long time but if someone's just learning and the coffee wasn't completely undrinkable, maybe they just thought it was their technique. Plenty of people don't take their grinders apart at all, so I wouldn't totally dunk on someone for missing it.