james65477564 Yes, it feels like common sense (the mazzer burrs are good enough) overruled the influencer fashion of needing ssp/gorilla etc when in reality no other grinder is better suited for changing burrs on a whim.
I think the whole burr thing and influencer thing needs a lot of caution, there’s more factors at play than burrs and sometimes other burrs are just…..different. The influencers need to make videos and it doesn’t take very much work or effort to make a puff piece on burrs. they can use music, jump cuts, whizz glasses around, enter yum town…and best of all, they can’t be wrong whatever they say.
They do it to make money and that need to make money, affiliate links (just copy and past the links into notepad and look), referrals, clicks, views, patreon, advertising etc.…then this may lead people down rabbit holes. Whatever they say, their primary objective is to help themselves…not you.
If you always remember this, you can then watch it with the same scepticism and enjoyment you might get watching a shopping channel, with awareness of new products, but the brain in gear for the BS.
e.g. one reviewer said he tested the Kopi Diva and it would indeed grind coffee for 40 hours espresso, because he already had to charge it once….The implication was he really tested it. if you do the math for even a 30s grind time @ 18g of coffee….this means he would have needed to put 80Kg of coffee through the grinder…I don’t think so!
The math for you to check is (18×2×60) = 2.16 Kg per hour…then simply multiply by 40hr to get over 80Kg
let’s even be generous and say…well perhaps he got 10 hours out of it and extrapolated…OK, do you really think he put 20kg though it, especially as he had 5 or 6 grinders to test???
This is just one example, I see many other inconsistencies in what they say, another influencer commented about the warmup volume of flush water (to warm it up fast) for a particular lever being pushed on HB. Now applying logic and science to the post and other claims about shot volumes for the machine by other influencers…“someone”… is spouting BS.
