Baratza - Encore

I’ve had my Baratza Encore grinder since 2023 and been using it everyday since. Do I need to replace the burrs?

Another vote. We use it daily for the past 2 years. Got it for $100 from Crate & Barrel on sale.

$100 for Baratza at C&B sure was a deal and I am glad you grabbed one for the same. High five!! Costco did bring in a coffee grinder, but I never saw one in person here in YEG.

The encore has been a fantastic grinder for me for at least 4-5 years. Still a bit pricey but you buy it once and never have to worry about it again.

If you just want one, get a decent coffee burr that can do fine & coarse. Might cost more but you won’t hate your first latte or espresso. If I had to pick: Baratza Encore or Breville Smart Grinder Pro.

I'm just getting started as well - only been using my Encore for about 13 years now. 

I have an encore for espresso for over a year now. Started with a dedica and now a la Pavoni. It does work well enough, but I'm now upgrading to a much better grinder. If you only want to brew dark roast Italian charcoal style espresso, the encore is enough to work with. But I'm running into issues with medium roast beans. It's not that I can't dial it in, it's just that the encore is not sensitive enough. There's not enough steps. Sometimes the coffee is bitter, so I move the dial a millimeter and now it's sour. If you do get it, make sure you recalibrate it immediately. This way you can make it a lot more sensitive, essentially doubling the number of steps. There's an official Baratza video on how to do this. You should also make it stepless while you've already got it opened up. For me these two modifications are enough to make good dark roast espresso. As soon as you have beans with a little acidity, you'll need to upgrade. Also, any setting lower than 9 takes literally half an hour to grind for a single dose..

I have the Oxo grinder and it works great, but I wish I dropped more $ for the Encore because it’s repairable so it will probably last longer (part of the reason why I bought a moccamaster in the first place). As far as I understand, the grinder bits will wear out down the road. Trying to move away from disposable cheap appliances to ones that are repairable where I can.

I have two grinders... A modded Mazzer Super Jolly for espresso and a non-esp Encore for drip. I think the ESP will handle everything you want to do.

I was a hard-core French Press user for many years and got a Baratza Encore. I now use an AeroPress but using it in a French Press style. The Encore continues to serve me very well and would recommend as a good "bang for the buck" option.

I jumped from a cheap $40 grinder to the Encore. It went against my nature to buy such an "expensive" appliance just for coffee. Totally worth it.

That's not true, they go plenty fine enough. Yours is either broken (burr holder tabs) or not calibrated to the fine side of the spectrum. a 10 on the adjustment wheel usually chokes most espresso machines when calibrated to the fine side.