Baratza Encore grind settings.
The default first electric grinder in the English-speaking world, and the chart most beginner recipes assume.
The chart
Starting points, not targets. Each number carries a ± 1-setting band because that is the honest resolution of this dial — land inside the band, then let taste move you.
| Brew method | Encore setting |
|---|---|
| Espresso anchor | 7 ± 1 |
| Moka pot | 11 ± 1 |
| AeroPress (short, fine) | 13 ± 1 |
| V60 / pour-over | 17 ± 1 |
| Kalita Wave | 19 ± 1 |
| Chemex / batch drip | 20 ± 1 |
| Clever / switch immersion | 24 ± 1 |
| French press anchor | 32 ± 1 |
| Cold brew | 36 ± 1 |
One setting on this grinder moves the grind by about 0.26 of a point on the 1–10 universal scale — so roughly 2 settings is the smallest change worth making between brews.
A chart gets you a starting number and then stops. Coffee Aeye quotes every recipe in Encore setting to begin with — and when you rate the brew, it tells you which way to move and how many, on this dial.
€4.29 on Google PlayWhere these numbers come from
Two anchors, and interpolation between them. Espresso and French press are the only two bands that manufacturers and community charts actually document with any consistency, so those are the fixed points: espresso at 7 and French press at 32. Everything between is a straight line drawn through them, quantised to the setting this dial actually resolves.
Absolute accuracy is not possible and this page will not claim it. Burr wear, per-unit zero points and assembly tolerances all shift where a number lands. What the two-anchor method gives you is the right shape — correct spacing between methods, correct direction of travel — which is what you need to dial in efficiently. The rest comes from calibration.
How this grinder works
Forty stepped positions on a rotating hopper collar. Steps are physical detents, so the setting is unambiguous — turn the hopper until the number lines up with the mark. Unlike the hand grinders here there is no zeroing procedure; the numbers are factory-referenced.
Calibrating the chart to your own Encore
If the chart runs consistently coarse or fine for you, do not nudge every row. Re-anchor it:
- Find your espresso mark — the setting where a 1:2 shot in about 28 seconds actually happens on your machine. If you do not pull espresso, use the finest point where a moka pot does not choke.
- Find your French press mark — coarse enough that a four-minute steep is clean rather than muddy, and the plunger does not fight you.
- Enter both in Coffee Aeye. Replacing the two anchors corrects the zero point and the slope at once, and every method in between re-derives from your own two numbers.
This matters more on some grinders than others — it matters most anywhere the dial is stepless or the zero is set by hand.
Known quirks of the Encore
Espresso is not really in range.
The chart puts espresso around setting 7 and the Encore will reach it, but output at that end is inconsistent enough that most people find it unusable for a real espresso shot. The Encore is a brew grinder. The ESP variant exists precisely because of this.
Unit-to-unit variance is genuinely wide.
Burr holder alignment varies more on the Encore than on any other grinder in this list. Two Encores at setting 20 can taste half a step apart, which is exactly why calibrating your own anchors is worth more here than anywhere else.
It is fully rebuildable, and that matters.
Burrs are a user-replaceable part. A worn set drifts coarse at every number — if your old settings suddenly taste sour, suspect the burrs before you suspect the chart.
Moving the dial when a brew tastes wrong
The chart gets you into the right neighbourhood. Taste gets you the rest of the way, and the rule is the same on every grinder here:
| What you taste | What it means | Move |
|---|---|---|
| Sour, sharp, thin, empty finish | Under-extracted | Finer |
| Bitter, drying, harsh, ashy | Over-extracted | Coarser |
| Balanced but weak | Ratio, not grind | Hold |
| Balanced but overwhelming | Ratio, not grind | Hold |
On this dial, 2–4 settings is one meaningful step. Change one thing per brew. The full method is in the V60 dial-in guide.
Coffee Aeye holds this chart for all 18 supported grinders and closes the loop on it. Rate a brew and it converts the fault you tasted into a concrete move — how many setting on your Encore, in your own dial numbers, not a vague "grind finer". Calibrate your two anchors once and every recipe in the app re-derives to your unit. Get it on Google Play — €4.29, one-time.
Convert a setting to another grinder
Settings do not transfer between grinders — click sizes, burr geometry and zero points all differ. The grinder converter maps a Encore setting onto any of the other 17 through the same universal scale this chart is built on.