Caporegime
San Fermin when made into Americano and added with milk, taste nothing like coffee, it disappears completely, it is very mellow. In an espresso it is very fruity and strong berry flavour.
Can any one recommend a budget grinder for me? ...
MC2 is useless if you want more than one type of coffee - moving from espresso to filter is nigh on impossible.
Buckled under the imaginary peer pressure in this thread and ordered some coffee from Origin. Stronghold's (a blend) tasting notes caught my attention and it's really quite nice. It's super mellow compared to what I usually like (single origins tend to have more body IME) but so so silky. Next time I'm going to try Das Almas or just copy you lot and order some San Fermin.
Can any one recommend a budget grinder for me
Should have backed it when it was £300, at £500 it is still worth it and it's end of the grinder search for life.
Hindsight and all, given the spectacular failure of several high profile coffee kickstarters £300 seemed a hell of a punt at the time unfortunately.
single dosing,you do get problems with the grind uniformity, without the weight of the upcoming beans + pop-corning, albeit, less concerning,
that Niche site independant review discusses that a lot
... did wonder if I should stop single dosing, but, I'd then have to dose the pf, sitting on scales ?
single dosing,you do get problems with the grind uniformity, without the weight of the upcoming beans + pop-corning, albeit, less concerning,
that Niche site independant review discusses that a lot
... did wonder if I should stop single dosing, but, I'd then have to dose the pf, sitting on scales ?
its odd - theres no commercial single dose grinder really, but that a factor of the volumes going through coffee shops, your beans aren't sat out for weeks at a time before there ground (or shouldn't be)
Home (bur) grinders were/are just scaled down & compromised commercial machines.
Hobbyists then built crazy machined edifices to encompass commercial burrs and essentially introduced single dosing (see the monolith & HG-1 grinders)
Niche then tried to make that affordable and created their own, well, niche - mainstream manufactures don't even seem to be starting to get into it yet...
this is what i'm doing at the moment as well, mostly because i've got a small set of accurate scales, a ridge-less basket makes life a load easierI've often dosed into the basket removed from the PF, leaving it in the machine to heat up
I take the basket out, lock pf to warm, zero scale with basket, grind into basket, press into pf, level and tamp.Surely when you seat the basket, now tampered with grind, the motion of it pushing it in and clicking to the wire causes vibration which could loosen then grind?
I take the basket out, lock pf to warm, zero scale with basket, grind into basket, press into pf, level and tamp.