Turin DF64 Gen 2 moka pot grind setting: the verified range

Turin DF64 Gen 2 moka pot grind setting: the verified range

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Set a Turin DF64 Gen 2 between 19 and 49 for moka pot, per Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Turin DF64 Gen 2 chart. Start in the middle of the window and adjust on taste: finer if the brew rushes out pale and tastes weak or sour, coarser if the pot sputters, spits, or the coffee tastes scorched and metallic.

Turin DF64 Gen 2 moka pot settings, and the bands either side

What Setting on the Turin DF64 Gen 2
Moka pot window 19 to 49 [1]
The espresso band on the same chart 0 to 20 [1]
The AeroPress band on the same chart 15 to 80 [1]
Full grind range of the grinder 180 to 1050 microns [1]

The neighbouring bands are there for context. If your moka pot 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 moka pot wants this part of the dial

A moka pot pushes water up through the basket with steam pressure that is a fraction of an espresso machine's, so it wants a grind finer than filter but clearly coarser than espresso. Go too fine and the basket clogs, pressure builds where it should not, and the safety valve does its job.

Dial it in from the chart in 3 steps

1. Set the middle of the moka pot window above and brew once, changing nothing else. 2. Taste against the two failure directions: finer if the brew rushes out pale and tastes weak or sour, coarser if the pot sputters, spits, or the coffee tastes scorched and metallic. The full logic is in the moka pot brewing guide and the moka pot ratio. For the rest of the recipe, see why moka coffee tastes metallic. 3. Move in small steps and write each attempt down; the free dial-in logbook exists for exactly this. Take the pot off the heat when the stream turns pale and gurgles. Grind fixes flavour, heat control fixes the burnt edge.

How the Turin DF64 Gen 2 adjustment reads

The Turin DF64 Gen 2 uses a stepless dial numbered from 0 at the fine end up past 90. 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 Turin DF64 Gen 2 grind settings chart has every other brew method on one page.

Moka pot on other popular grinders

Grinder Moka pot setting
Fellow Opus 2.5 to 5.5 [2]
1Zpresso X-Pro 1.1.0 to 2.0.7 [3]
1Zpresso Q Air 1.0.2 to 1.9.1 [4]
1Zpresso ZP6 1.1 to 3.6 [5]
KINGrinder K2 49 to 89 [6]

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FAQ

What grind setting is moka pot on the Turin DF64 Gen 2? 19 to 49 on the compiled Turin DF64 Gen 2 chart. Start in the middle of that window, brew once with everything else held steady, then move in small steps on taste.

My moka pot tastes wrong on the Turin DF64 Gen 2. Which way do I move? If the brew rushes out pale and tastes weak or sour, go finer. If the pot sputters, spits, or the coffee tastes scorched and metallic, go coarser. Change one thing at a time and write down what you did.

Where do these Turin DF64 Gen 2 numbers come from? Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Turin DF64 Gen 2 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 Turin DF64 Gen 2 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/turin-df64-gen-2-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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