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Set a Comandante C40 MK4 between 16 and 34 for pour over, per Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Comandante C40 MK4 chart; inside that, a V60 cone wants the tighter 15 to 25 band. Start in the middle of the window and adjust on taste: finer if the brew drains fast and tastes sour, thin or weak, coarser if the bed stalls, the brew takes far longer than usual, or the cup tastes bitter.
Comandante C40 MK4 pour over settings, and the bands either side
| What | Setting on the Comandante C40 MK4 |
|---|---|
| Pour over window | 16 to 34 [1] |
| V60 cone, the tighter band inside it | 15 to 25 [1] |
| The AeroPress band on the same chart | 12 to 35 [1] |
| The French press band on the same chart | 26 to 40 [1] |
| Full grind range of the grinder | 0 to 1090 microns [1] |
The neighbouring bands are there for context. If your pour over sits at one end of its window and still tastes wrong, the answer is usually a different variable, not another step in the same direction, because past that edge you are grinding for a different brew method.
Why pour over wants this part of the dial
Pour over is percolation: water passes through the bed once, under gravity, and the grind sets how fast the bed drains. Drawdown time is the tell, and it is the number to watch before you argue with the taste.
Dial it in from the chart in 3 steps
1. Set the middle of the pour over window above and brew once, changing nothing else. 2. Taste against the two failure directions: finer if the brew drains fast and tastes sour, thin or weak, coarser if the bed stalls, the brew takes far longer than usual, or the cup tastes bitter. The full logic is in the pour over guide and the pour over ratio. For the rest of the recipe, see what to do when a pour over is too slow. 3. Move in small steps and write each attempt down; the free dial-in logbook exists for exactly this. Keep the pour pattern the same while you change grind. Pouring technique moves drawdown as much as a couple of settings do.
How the Comandante C40 MK4 adjustment reads
The Comandante C40 MK4 uses a click ring under the burr counted in clicks from fully tight. Find your zero before trusting any chart: with the hopper empty, close the burrs until they just touch, call that zero, and count from there. A zero point calibrated differently from the chart's shifts every range by the difference, which is behind most complaints that a chart is wrong. The full Comandante C40 MK4 grind settings chart has every other brew method on one page.
Pour over on other popular grinders
| Grinder | Pour over setting |
|---|---|
| Fellow Opus | 3 to 8.5 [2] |
| 1Zpresso X-Pro | 1.2.0 to 3.0.0 [3] |
| 1Zpresso Q Air | 1.2.1 to 2.7.1 [4] |
| 1Zpresso ZP6 | 1.5 to 5.9 [5] |
| KINGrinder K2 | 56 to 126 [6] |
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FAQ
What grind setting is pour over on the Comandante C40 MK4? 16 to 34 on the compiled Comandante C40 MK4 chart. Start in the middle of that window, brew once with everything else held steady, then move in small steps on taste.
My pour over tastes wrong on the Comandante C40 MK4. Which way do I move? If the brew drains fast and tastes sour, thin or weak, go finer. If the bed stalls, the brew takes far longer than usual, or the cup tastes bitter, go coarser. Change one thing at a time and write down what you did.
Where do these Comandante C40 MK4 numbers come from? Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Comandante C40 MK4 chart, read from the published table and cited in the sources list on this page. It is a compiled chart built from that site's research and reader feedback, not a manufacturer document, so treat every range as a window rather than a verdict.
Sources
- [1] Honest Coffee Guide's Comandante C40 MK4 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/comandante-c40-mk4-grind-settings/
- [2] Honest Coffee Guide's Fellow Opus chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/fellow-opus-grind-settings/
- [3] Honest Coffee Guide's 1Zpresso X-Pro chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/1zpresso-x-pro-grind-settings/
- [4] Honest Coffee Guide's 1Zpresso Q Air chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/1zpresso-q-air-grind-settings/
- [5] Honest Coffee Guide's 1Zpresso ZP6 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/1zpresso-zp6-grind-settings/
- [6] Honest Coffee Guide's KINGrinder K2 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/kingrinder-k2-grind-settings/
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