Ernie1 As long as you dial the beans in individually and record the settings for each, the Niche has no trouble switching between them accurately.

    I ummed and ahhhed about a Niche since it appeared. I had a Specialita and found it almost impossible to adjust for different brews etc’

    I could not find the definative answer as to whether the Niche would do for me.

    So, as I really liked the Specialita I decided to buy another and do not regret it.

    A bit of an outlay but when has that ever bothered us 😉

      Ernie1 It’s not so much the retention I was curious about, more the setting. My Mazzer is insanely fussy, like .5mm off and it’s not dialled in.

      That’s because it’s not designed for that purpose, unlike the Niche.

        I have a 1Zpresso J Max that I use for my wifes Decaff and the Specialita for my Coffee as I found it too hard to get the correct setting for the 2 Coffees with the Specialita

        hubcap I really liked the Specialita I decided to buy another and do not regret it.

        The world needs more people like you!

          Penance Think i’d have to leave home if i kept 2 grinders!

          Ditto for me, especially as I have 2 setups: one here in the City and one at our family cottage. I’ve upgraded my City setup, moving from a Bartaza Sette270 + Breville Duopro… to a Eureka Mignon Specialita with Lelit Elizabeth….and then recently bought the Niche Zero and sold Mignon just as the NZ arrived; never managed a side by side comparison.

          As I modded the dial on the Mignon to a larger 3D printed dial (bought on Etsy), I was able to make minute adjustments, which was great. But it’s single dose hopper was not well designed and the grinder had modest retention, which meant grinding and throwing out a couple of grams of coffee every AM and/or at every grind setting change, which wasted coffee and time. And switching from espresso to pour over or moka pot was a big pain to note and remember how many rotations of the dial, from X.x number for espresso (which changes) by Y.y turns of the dial to z.z for pour over. So if you didn’t keep very very careful notes of each change, there was a risk of not knowing how to get back to your the espresso setting that you had spent time and coffee dialing in. It really is a one type of coffee (espresso) machine. And I really didn’t use it’s programming features. Never got to cleaning the burrs after watching a scary multi step video. So I sold it.

          I’m now breaking in my NZ and am overcoming some initial teething pains. No grinder is perfect (not even an NZ or even a Monolith) and I am betting that most pallets would not be able to blind test which machine made which shot), but I prefer the NZ at this point.

          Will need to confirm this, as my cottage grinder (Bartazza Sette 270) needs repair, so I can look my Kurig coffee drinking wife in the eye and say…its broken so we might as well put the repair money into a NZ.

          Need to figure out a rationale for moving my City Lelit E to the cottage and buying a Lelit B for the City…. Hmmm.

              JHCCoffee Need to figure out a rationale for moving my City Lelit E to the cottage and buying a Lelit B for the City

              I don’t know how often you visit your cottage, but one advantage of the Elizabeth is that you can actually quickly box it and take it with you.

              The danger of having the Bianca is that… well… the forbidden word…. Upgraditus! You might eventually realise that you need a Bianca for the cottage too! 🤣🤣🤣👍

                Penance Just ordered a Niche Zero.

                Congrats 🙌🥳

                I found that there is a both a settling in period and a learning curve with the grinder, and I am still figuring afew things out, but I am now enjoying the benefits of the upgrade. Happy to share my learning curve with you (for whatever its worth) once you receive the NZ. Mine arrived really quick (5 days, all the way from across the pond to Canada). I was able to resell my 4 month old Eureka Mignon Specialita (still with manufacturers and vendors warranties) with the single dose hopper and bellows for about $650 CDN, which was $300 CDN less than I paid, including tax. The person that bought it saved $300 to $400. Live and learn.

                    Penance

                    DaveC did a great Youtube video on steps to take when you first receive your LZ, to calibrate it (and not damage it while trying to do so, with insufficient information). I followed it to the T. As it turned out, there were no test (quality control) grounds in my NZ and it was properly calibrated, so my recalibration was unnecessary.

                    Happy to otherwise share my NZ learning curve with you.