Timemore C2 pour over grind setting: the verified range

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Set a Timemore C2 between 13 and 29 for pour over, per Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Timemore C2 chart; inside that, a V60 cone wants the tighter 13 to 22 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.

Timemore C2 pour over settings, and the bands either side

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 Timemore C2 adjustment reads

The Timemore C2 uses an adjustment nut under the handle 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 Timemore C2 grind settings chart has every other brew method on one page.

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Related reading

• Timemore C2 grind settings chart
• The pour over guide
• All gear guides

FAQ

What grind setting is pour over on the Timemore C2? 13 to 29 on the compiled Timemore C2 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 Timemore C2. 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 Timemore C2 numbers come from? Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Timemore C2 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 Timemore C2 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/timemore-c2-grind-settings/
• [2] Honest Coffee Guide's KINGrinder K6 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/kingrinder-k6-grind-settings/
• [3] Honest Coffee Guide's Fellow Opus chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/fellow-opus-grind-settings/
• [4] Honest Coffee Guide's 1Zpresso X-Pro chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/1zpresso-x-pro-grind-settings/
• [5] Honest Coffee Guide's 1Zpresso Q Air chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/1zpresso-q-air-grind-settings/
• [6] Honest Coffee Guide's 1Zpresso ZP6 chart: https://honestcoffeeguide.com/1zpresso-zp6-grind-settings/