askthe coffeeguy wrote:
...............I'm pretty certain I can achieve comparable shot quality from both ...To me it's as much about quality control and technique as it is the equipment that you're using Admittedly if you're making more than one coffee at a time the Sunbeam begins to heat up quite quickly which has a discernable impact upon resulting flavour but I've made coffee for coffee geeks using both grinders and they've been unable to tell them apart I still advocate for choosing one variable at a time and then revolving around that until you get the best results, whether that be grind coarseness, dosage, tamp pressure, or whatever, but I'm pretty sure that each of these variables has easily as significant an impact as the equipment that you're using
Got it on one P. But the really telling comment is the one that I took the liberty of bolding and italicising. Blind cupping fellas blind cupping, it gets everyone every time. Once you remove the influence of throughput and therefore any possibility of heating up due to friction, as does not exist in a home use situation, and then add in the realistic (in this country) idea that milk coffee is what most people will brew and consume, the actual technical discussion is pretty limited IF those sitting around the table (of knowledge) are prepared to accept the reality created by blind comparisons conducted well by those who can (ie by eliminating the bool scheet part of this). That leaves the realism of individual taste. Someone likes a conical grinder...because he just does./ Someone else likes a flat grindr for the same reason, someone else likes a 35 kilo elephant sitting in the kitchen with which to make 2 cuppas in the morning, and someone else is happy with a more realistic piece of kit for the volume of his use. Someone is prepared to spend the cost of building a luxury 100 meter yacht on their coffee grinder, and someone else isnt. 😉 Whatever floats their boat. Just that the justification should not include BS, which is really, really offensive. That's my only criterion....please...no BS 😉...it is driving the coffee and equipment industries around the twist in the race for all and sundry roasters and equipment traders to wrestle market share off their competitors to build their own businesses.
