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My water temp was off by 15 degrees for 4 months
Tbh I only noticed because my buddy came over and brewed a cup with my setup. He looked at my thermometer and said man that reads low. I checked it against boiling water and sure enough it was reading 185 when it was really 200. All those sour shots I kept getting and blaming my grind made total sense. Has anyone else had a cheap thermometer drift on them like that?
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amyh2123d ago
Did you check it at both ends of the range or just boiling? Mine drifted worse at the low end, like 10 degrees off at 190 but only 3 or 4 at 205. I ended up testing at a few temps with a known good one and making a little cheat sheet taped to the machine. Cheap dial thermometers are the worst for this, the spring inside just gets tired over time. If yours is off by a flat 15 everywhere then you can just do the math in your head, but if it drifts different amounts at different temps you gotta test the whole range. Honestly the fix for me was a $20 digital one that I check against boiling every couple months.
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