Gorilla Gear burrs in a Niche Zero

You get it in all walks of life where people can make money.

They either leach off you or are jealous of you

Too many have too many fingers in pies

Personally I’m getting sick and tired of forum after forum being destroyed by people arguing and it is about money, regardless of what is said.

Re home barista forum. You cannot say your piece I was openly called a liar by a manufacturer, and when I responded I was shut down! By a mod ons breads buttered on the correct side for them ££££

I’m seriously thinking of fucking off all the YouTube shite, Instagram and all that shit. Let’s not forget without us as consumers the ‘reviewrs’ have no audience.

Fwiw I’m being blanked by lance on pm, 🤷

tompoland As someone who was run out of HB by the pitchfork brigade…

It’s not a very exclusive club :-)

Cuprajake Personally I’m getting sick and tired of forum after forum being destroyed by people arguing and it is about money, regardless of what is said.

CFUK was a haven in this respect for most of its time (compared to H-B & CG), then when that went downhill/was sold off, this forum was pretty free of it (though we can disagree openly & still get on). This is perhaps the thread with the worst of it I have seen here. Hopefully now that can be allowed to pass like water under the bridge now.

So…I recall we were talking about the Gorilla gear burrs…?

Totally agree

I’ve seen only a few things but we sort it peacefully.

@tompoland Grahamsphillips

Did either of you have bad burrs in the sense some on Facebook had really rough casting

tompoland I have been enjoying my niche, even with light roasts but that probably have to do with the fact I’ve paired it with a decent and the types of profiles I’m doing.

Also nothing to compare against except my SSP ode gen 2.

Maybe one day I’ll have a decent espresso centric flat burr to compare against.

LMSC

Hi when you said that u use a 5 to 6bdegree offset in rhe evo between bree boiler and grouphead, do u mean u set the boiler 5 to 6bdegrees higher than the grouphead? The nurri has a Teflon pad to insulate the grouphead from the boiler apparently I believe in order to disconnect both temperature wise so I’m not sure eif thta makes any diff.

chlorox do u mean u set the boiler 5 to 6bdegrees higher than the grouphead?

Yes, that’s correct. The insulation is there on the Evo too; however, there are heat losses in moving water from the boiler to the group, which is why an offset of 6-8 degrees keeps temperature in the group stable.

CoyoteOldMan

Thanks I may change my practice then and make a similar offset too to see any difference. Currently the offset is only about 3 degrees.

chlorox Do experiment - it’s almost free! 😉

CoyoteOldMan

Coffee beans are there to be used lol

tompoland Personally, when I got my first Niche, I was drinking dark roast espresso and loved the muddy/chocolate espresso style that it produced and that’s probably doubly true of dark roast/milk drinkers.

I suppose from my post in this thread some might conclude that I think influencers are evil. Not so. It’s more of a case they suggest journeys in some direction or the other but in real terms people wont know what it means until they take it.

My thoughts on Niche when I had it new using a dark roast was that taste wasn’t correct. Nothing like it should be. Somewhat Costa. I was told use would improve the grind, It did and taste improved. Probably so slowly I didn’t really notice once the initial harshness went, I use various beans at times but stayed away from light. I tried those after something over 10kg had gone through it and didn’t have much of a problem getting the flavours mentioned by the roasters.

I’d be inclined to put the harshness down to too much fines. Results as new – I’ve done better with an SGP ;) but only with the hopper on. No review really mentioned this aspect of Niche. I experienced it so there is no point people telling me it doesn’t do this. I’ve used several grinder and rate some and not others but that is base on use. Also HU burrs.

;) The harshness - I do like strong coffee. It made a change for a while.

tompoland I really don’t like muddy chocolate-style espresso. Chocolate is fine but no mud thanks. I like fruit flavours. Never had a problem getting these clean flavours with the Niche but then I don’t try to pull shots at 1:2 or less.

HanceLedrick I find the filter paper has a huge impact in the cup too.

ajohn I had the same experience. Initially I really didn’t enjoy the Niche but as time passed something changed and I’ve been really happy with it. Hence the willingness to invest in the GG burrs