Jake, the point you make on the other thread is interesting:
Cuprajake Drawing from personal experience with testing the duo,
People have been quick to jump on the price £800 and saying sell it with one burr for £100 less
Now the burrs retail £80 ish, now this values the carriers at £20.
But you read the comments, and they are justifying £200 for 50g of metal because CNC is an expensive procedure., For the wafo but in the next breath they put down cnc niche carriers
Just found it kinda funny.
Being part of the niche launch has really opened my eyes to the coffee industry/community and I’d say not all of it good.
The Duo is an interesting concept, and… it’s a Duo. You can swap between filter and espresso on the burrs it comes with. That’s great, but It’s not for everyone. Certainly not for me, purely for the fact I don’t drink filter. If I did, I’d buy one, because I quite like the idea of one grinder where you can benefit from dedicated burr sets with only one grinder sitting on the bench. I can’t have two, so they would fit the bill.
But I am not their intended audience, and presumably there are many people like me out there.
I’m not Niche, I wish them all the best and I am not a mechanical engineer, nor claim to be one. But for me, an 83mm flat burr grinder with a simplified burr carrier where you can’t swap the burrs as easily - Call it the Niche Uno Flat if you wish - would have fit the bill for me, and if it was £150 cheaper, even better.
Ps: I’ve seen the Duo, used one and had coffee from it. It’s a well designed grinder, and I really like it.
My two pence worth.
