DavecUK
I agree that the p100 is far superior in its attributes on paper than the eg-1. The eg-1 merely has on its side of the ledger only its looks.
The p100 weight is one of the things I like about it - it really imparts the feeling of stability and solidity and it’s weight means I don’t accidentally jostle the grinder if I accidentally brush my hand against it. Certainly the starting of the motor doesn’t make the grinder jump a little unlike some other grinder designs.
On the p100’s motor, it is certainly much more confidence inspiring than the motor on the eg1 - there are far too many stories of stalling wirh the eg-1 to be dismissed and too many stories too about poor customer support from weber. The eg-1 is the most expensive single dosing grinder on the market despite being only 80mm and made entirely in Taiwan, and so it should not have any stalling issues at all. On the other hand option-o’s customer support is widely praised and the p100 has never been said to stall on any kind of bean before. And the p100 is far cheaper than rhe eg-1.
On the aesthetics of the p100, I suppose this is where one man’s meat is another’s poison! For me, I think the p100 is one of the most beautiful of all the grinder designs. In fact in terms of the purity of design and among Option-O’s entire grinder line of equipment, it is the cleanest and most pure in its design according to the Modernist school. Only the eg-1 looks better to my eye than the p100, but the p100 occupies far less counter space.
The P100 body basically consists of a single cylinder where by the top half of the cylinder is seemingly rotated horizontally outwards so that the top half rests partially on the bottom half. A smaller diameter cylinder sits on the top cylinder. The versa cup forms another cylinder rests underneath the overhang of the top cylinder. 4 cylinders balanced on top of each other in a balanced configuration.
By contrast the 01 design is completely unbalanced to me - the housing containing the burrs is an oversized cylinder but it appears to be joined to a much thinner body behind it. As a result the former dominates the eye so much that the latter barely figures.
On the taste, I think the burrs has a big part to play in this - the ssp HU 98mm burrs that the p100 comes with can be a polarising burr set because it is so clean and transparent that it also has considerably less body than other burrs. If the mizen burrs are swapped in, the result will probably come a lot closer to what one will get from the shuriken LM in the kafatek, and furthermore doesn’t have the stalling issues with the 98mm mizen that some 01 units have been experiencing with the 102mm mizen burrs.
