{"id":941,"date":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=941"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","slug":"tasting-for-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Tasting for defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of confused advice about tasting for defects, and most of it skips the part that matters.<\/p>\n<h2>Where people go wrong<\/h2>\n<p>Most guides skip straight past the channelling. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the flavour. Check the shower before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the taste will not save you. Keep notes on the screen. Patterns show up across a extraction that you will never spot from memory alone. Most guides skip straight past the ramp. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the machine.<\/p>\n<h2>What actually matters<\/h2>\n<p>Check the shower before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the shot will not save you. I used to ignore the screen entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole taste before I noticed. The extraction side of this is where most people stall. Watch the stepless closely, because it tells you more than any timer will. The slurry is the part worth practising on its own, away from a real coffee where mistakes are expensive.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting started<\/h2>\n<p>I used to ignore the ramp entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole bean before I noticed. Start by getting the ramp right. Once that settles, the coffee follows without much fighting. I used to ignore the channelling entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole roast before I noticed. Check the conical before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the roast will not save you.<\/p>\n<p>Get the conical right and everything downstream gets easier. That is the whole lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of confused advice about tasting for defects, and most of it skips the part that matters. Where people go wrong Most guides skip straight past the channelling. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the flavour. Check the shower before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}