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CLANCY ROSE: Okay, go ahead and stop once that basket is full. The next thing that I
do is lightly settle the coffee, which is this motion here. And I do that a few times
for each shot. Every time that you are doing that, you are going to be able to fit another
gram of coffee for every single settle that you have. That is one thing that you are going
to want to do the same number of times in the same way every time you do it, so that
that is not changing the end product. Then we go ahead and dose a little more coffee
in there. So now I have a full basket. I am going to take the top off there and level
off the coffee. And so what you are going to see me do is level off the top of the coffee,
and what I am doing is not only creating a nice, even, flat level surface on the top
of the basket here, but you also want to push around the coffee in the basket so that you
evenly distribute the coffee throughout the basket. This is how you do that. And that
is just one method of distributing your coffee. And the reason that you want to do that is
if there is any area in the basket that coffee is not as evenly distributed to, that is going
to be the least--the path of least resistance that the water is going to take when you go
ahead and brew your espresso shot. It is going to affect the flavor in the end of the espresso
shot.