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Your grinder's own starting setting

Choose your grinder and how you brew. It shows the setting or range its maker publishes for that method, in the maker's own numbers, with the chart it came from. For the two grinders with no maker chart we could find, it uses a documented secondary source and says so.

The original Encore (ZCG485), not the Encore ESP.

Brewing

Crossed out: no verified setting is included here for moka pot or cold brew.

1510152025303540set to15of 1–40

Lower numbers grind finer. The dial is turned so the setting sits under the mark.

The maker's settings included hereon its 1–40 dial

Baratza Encore · Pour-over (V60)

Start at 15

Baratza calls these suggested starting points, to adjust coarser or finer for your recipe, roast, coffee and taste.

Published by Baratza · open the source, checked October 15, 2026.

Cautions

  • Change the setting only while the grinder is running or empty of beans.
Where zero is

Setting 1 is the finest and 40 the coarsest. The sources we checked give no burr-contact zero and no burr movement per step.

Brew it in the Brew Guide → How it should look Tune it by taste

Baratza Encore on Amazon: the exact model, checked October 15, 2026. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Why every grinder needs its own number

A grind setting is a position on one grinder's dial, not a size. "15" on a Baratza Encore, 15 clicks on a Comandante and 15 on a 1Zpresso JX-Pro are three different things, because each grinder's burrs, steps and zero point differ. So the calibrator never converts one grinder's number into another's. It shows what each maker publishes for its own grinder, in that grinder's unit.

Some makers print one setting per method; others print a range. Where there's only a range, the tool shows the band on the dial and doesn't invent a single number inside it.

A starting point, then taste

Makers present these as starting points, and the coffee decides the rest: the beans, the roast, how fresh they are and your recipe all move the right setting. Brew at the starting setting, taste, then move in small steps. Sour or thin usually means go finer; bitter or harsh usually means go coarser. Fix My Coffee helps you tell which, and the Grind Guide shows what the grounds should look like.

Where zero is

Hand grinders count clicks or numbers from a zero point, and makers define zero differently: some count from where the handle starts to turn with resistance, others from where the burrs just touch. The calibrator shows each maker's own definition under "Where zero is". If your count starts somewhere else, the published settings will be off by that difference. A few makers also say how far one click moves the burrs (12.5 µm on a JX-Pro, for example). That is the burr movement, not the size of the grounds.

The grinders

21 grinders, from the makers' own charts and manuals, checked on October 15, 2026. For the DF64 Gen 2 and Eureka Mignon Specialità, no maker chart could be found, so the settings come from a documented secondary source and are labelled that way. Not included yet: Timemore Chestnut C3 (standard, not ESP/ESP Pro/Pro), because no maker chart for that exact model could be verified.

Electric grinders

Hand grinders

Sources