This machine doesn't like oily beans. Your best bet is to buy freshly roasted beans that are roasted to a FC or FC+. Viena, French and Italian roast beans won't work well. Also any beans that you buy at the grocery store will be quite old (often 3 months past roasting date) and they tend to be very oily on the outside.
If you have a coffee stirring stick or a chopstick, lift the cover of the bean hopper and stir the beans and sort of poke them down in the center - that's where the beans stick and can't drop down into the grinding burrs.
If you use oily beans you will need to stir every time or every other time you make a cup. Fresh roasted beans at a slightly lighter roast will work fine.
If you can't find freshly roasted beans. Here is an espresso blend that I have had very good luck with in the Titanium. The roaster ships same day he roasts, the price is good and I receive my beans two days after they were roasted which is as fresh as you could hope for. RedBird Espresso blend (he makes a decaf espresso too) redbirdcoffee dot com
http://redbirdcoffee.com/redbirdespresso...If you can't find freshly roasted beans. Here is an espresso blend that I have had very good luck with in the Titanium. The roaster ships same day he roasts, the price is good and I receive my beans two days after they were roasted which is as fresh as you could hope for. RedBird Espresso blend (he makes a decaf espresso too) redbirdcoffee dot com http://redbirdcoffee.com/redbirdespresso.html
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This machine doesn't like oily beans. Your best bet is to buy freshly roasted beans that are roasted to a FC or FC+. Viena, French and Italian roast beans won't work well. Also any beans that you buy at the grocery store will be quite old (often 3 months past roasting date) and they tend to be very oily on the outside.
If you have a coffee stirring stick or a chopstick, lift the cover of the bean hopper and stir the beans and sort of poke them down in the center - that's where the beans stick and can't drop down into the grinding burrs.
If you use oily beans you will need to stir every time or every other time you make a cup. Fresh roasted beans at a slightly lighter roast will work fine.
If you can't find freshly roasted beans. Here is an espresso blend that I have had very good luck with in the Titanium. The roaster ships same day he roasts, the price is good and I receive my beans two days after they were roasted which is as fresh as you could hope for. RedBird Espresso blend (he makes a decaf espresso too) redbirdcoffee dot com
http://redbirdcoffee.com/redbirdespresso...