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I’m sticking with my old beat up

The Best Burr Coffee Grinders

“Coffee aficionados rave about burr grinders. Are they worth the investment? We went through 110 pounds of coffee to find out.

While many factors contribute to the flavor of brewed #coffee, a good burr coffee grinder is essential to ensuring consistent quality from drip to #espresso and everything in between. Our favorite, the #Baratza Encore ESP, is an easy-to-use, reliably consistent grinder that offers an ample number of precise grind sizes”

americastestkitchen.com/equipm

For only the second time ever,
#Baratza has put some of their grinders on sale.

This time around, both the Sette 30 and Sette 270Wi (with a built in Acaia scale! The one we use as our standards-testing espresso grinder!) are 20% off. Read all about them here, and which one you should consider if in the market for a new espresso-primary grinder.

The Sette 270Wi for $480 is an great deal in particular. (US only tho, which sucks!)

cc @coffee @espresso

coffeegeek.com/blog/deals/bara

CoffeeGeek · Baratza Products on Sale – Again – the Sette 30 and Sette 270WiFor only the second time ever, Baratza has a limited time sale on two of their grinders, this time, the Sette 270Wi and Sette 30. 20% off!

Did you know Baratza made a commercial grinder? One tested and certified for light commercial use?

It's the Forte Grinder. We've never formally evaluated this grinder at CoffeeGeek. That's changing this summer. And this unit we just got in is a very limited edition version of the Forte, in a different colour, and signed by one of Baratza's two founders, Kyle Anderson.

More soon!

cc @coffee

Note: I bought this grinder in 2013 for ~80USD, when they were selling for $129 new. Got it cheap because it had a few dings (cracked hopper and a few cracks on the plastic chassis). Repaired what I could then, upgraded some parts and it's done a good job at home for me ever since. If you want a versatile grinder that will last and that you can service yourself for cheap, the Encore is still the way to go.

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Calibration achieved - moved the screw towards the center to make the grinder a little better at coarse grinding (cold brew, French press) while still being good enough for a moka pot. Without an espresso machine I don't need a finer grind anyway.

Sorry about the coffee dust, I did this after a test grind.

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Burrs have been changed back to the original ones (which are better for coarser grinds than the Preciso burrs), cleaned the copious amounts of coffee dust inside the grinder and changed the gear, which got damaged when something got jammed - lost a few teeth in the process. Will be grinding coffee after I come back home.

Edit: stayed longer than expected at home, so I had time for a test grind - looks good, but I will need to adjust the calibration screw.

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I also changed the gearbox when I changed the burrs, so it won't be the first time I took it apart. It's been a while, so I'll be watching videos and reading guides first.

I'll see what else might be broken now - the good news is that getting parts from Baratza is pretty easy and way cheaper than buying a new grinder (or at least it was).

Earlier today I grinding coffee beans for cold brew and I missed a small pebble that made my Encore very unhappy. Hoping the motor is still fine and that little rock is just jamming it still - I'll be disassembling the grinder tomorrow to see the extent of the damage, possibly replace the burrs as well (I replaced the original burrs with Preciso burrs when I still had an espresso machine, but kept the old ones just in case).

Hopefully I can repair it.

Replied to CoffeeGeek

@coffeegeek I cannot agree with you more! I have first hand experience with Baratza service. I have a Preciso grinder that suddenly stopped working. It was many years old. They offered to service it for free - I was lucky that I didn’t have to ship it since they are located in Bellevue,WA. They called me a few days later and it was ready for pickup. This was during Covid too! No company every provides free service once a product is out of warranty. Kudos to #baratza #Coffee

I'm kinda shocked there are very little good (and recent, like less than 5yr old) reviews of the Baratza Forte grinder out there.

This little known grinder is Baratza's full blown commercial grinder. It is like a Vario-W on steroids. It also is their only grinder that easily switches between grind by weight and grind by time.

We're revisiting this grinder this summer on CoffeeGeek. Meanwhile, he's Coffee Kev's first look at it, from 1yr ago, one of the only reviews recently on Youtube.

#coffee #espresso #grinder #baratza #baratzaforte

youtube.com/watch?v=fw6LbitvP_

I finally replaced my ancient Maestro Solis grinder. Too much gunk build up that was too hard to reach, and my attempt at disassembling failed.

Ordered the new Virtuoso+ from Amazon (which I hate doing) because my usual gear supplier didn't have it in stock and Williams Sonoma takes forever to ship things.

It's interesting that #Baratza Grinders literally never go on sale. They have their set price, and that's the price, year in, year out.

There used to be a cheaper way - Baratza would sell grinders in their refurb category on their website, but they no longer offer this.

Sometimes, vendors will do combo packages which will discount Baratza grinders. That's the only way to save money on them.