I had long thought of, since getting the Evo, having a dedicated thread to share my coffee experience. The laziness got the better off me. I also didn’t have much recounting the journey stories like experienced folks like Dave, dfk41, Systemic, MRS, Jake and many more. Jake’s recording of his journey is beautiful. With the duo due to be delivered soon, it’s about time I take a leaf out of Jake’s and have a thread sharing the user experience of using the Duo the way it was originally meant to be and designed for. Swapping the burrs seem to be quick and easy. Can one really integrate it as a part of a daily routine? Or, would it become a faff over time - what ever may be the reason ? I make 3 espressos in the morning for 3 and at least a filter or two for self during the day. There may or may be any decaf espressos in the evening. I think users like self are perfect candidates for the duo. I have every intentions of swapping the burrs - there is no reason not to otherwise. It remains to be seen if I will enjoy using the dual burrs daily or get bored swapping daily after the honeymoon period - 3 months! I will post my views as I experience it. There will not be any reviews or comparisons for three reasons. 1) I can’t be asked, 2) Tom, I am sure, will do the honours as usual and 3) I can’t afford to buy :-) I do want to know how I will like the espresso (taste wise) from JX pro vs the duo. I mostly drink medium light / light. I take full 2 mins to grind 17g. One thing for sure is I won’t be missing the hand-grinding part! 😁 More later!

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cant wait for you to get hands on, its about time they hit the hands of more real world users, im sure you will love the grinder, im finding 6 to be a good starting point with beans for espresso and then 30-40 range with filter, which i dont drink alot of tbh,

@"Cuprajake"#p48288 Great shout. I will start at those ranges Jake.

Thx to @"dfk41"#4, grabbed a few KGs of cheap beans from Amazon for £30 to season the burrs sets. Supposed to be light / medium roasts [URL=https://i.imgur.com/on0KllQ.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/on0KllQ.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

think i ran about 500g through, got bored and just used it lol

@"LMSC"#p48290 Would be terrible if you tried drinking it snd enjoyed it!

I think Niche suggest this, but if you can, once unboxed, leave it to come to room temp which takes an hour or so. If you touch it, it will be freezing cold which is just a by product of the delivery system……enjoy matey!

@"dfk41"#p48297 Yeah! I saw their video. Thx mate.

> @"LMSC"#p48286 Swapping the burrs seem to be quick and easy. Can one really integrate it as a part of a daily routine? Or, would it become a faff over time - what ever may be the reason ? You will find that while waiting for the kettle to boil, you can swap the burrs, why not to get extra good filter as opposed to just using the espresso burrs.

@"DavecUK"#p48306 Indeed. No point in getting the filter burrs set otherwise. Let’s see how it goes over time 🤞

Coffee with Duo

LMSC

oddbean What kind of roasts are they? Can’t really pull any espresso above the 4 mark.

As Dave said, the Kenyans were light. The Kenyans are easily soluble and I grind them on the coarser side.

The grind size does vary markedly depending on your espresso machine. My daughter grinds between 6 and 10 depending on the roast for her Bambino.

What do you normally drink?

oddbean

LMSC

I usually drink medium/light-medium roasts. And use a Lelit Elizabeth with 18g VST basket. Can’t remember the last time I moved the dial above 4. And most of the times it’s around 2. Which is alright for 18g shots, but cannot really do 16g shots as I can’t grind finer. Have re-zeroed without any change. Niche told me, I need to move the zero point 5 marks lower, without any explanation, but haven’t done that.

LMSC

Made a couple of flat whites for my family with the left over Kenyan Guama. They liked it. It was a light roast and ground at 13 on the Duo.

LMSC

Smith Street Colombia Mauricio Duque Extended Fermentation Geisha

https://www.smithstreetcoffeeroasters.co.uk/product-page/mauricio-duque

Great coffee as an espresso. It really shines on the Lever. It tastes like a very sweet nectarine juice. 😊

LMSC

oddbean Am sure you have zeroed property. The cleanliness of the burrs set make a difference. Niche also told me that if the burrs are cleaned and zeroed properly, a fully-tightened hopper would be about -20.

The above coffee from SS is pretty light and am grinding at 13.

oddbean

LMSC

As sure as I can be, I tried a few times, and always cleaned the burrs and everything. Used to move the dial while grinder was on, so zeroed right when I could here the slightest sound, and not when the sound was harsh. Just did not want to damage anything. Wondering they can try to re-zero it for me.

They also told me the use on the 4 mark for espresso. Which doesn’t mean much without knowing the machine, basket and amount at least. Did ask though, without a response.

MediumRoastSteam

LMSC

MediumRoastSteam ?? 😊

LMSC

What are the odds? 3rd time since acquisition. I still wonder how a single bean, let alone 2, gets there!

Bottomline, we are glad we got the Duo with both burrs sets.

DavecUK

LMSC What are the odds? 3rd time since acquisition. I still wonder how a single bean, let alone 2, gets there!

During testing this happened a few times, of course I did literally 100s and 100s of shots, I felt exactly the same.

The Mazzer filter specific burr set on the Duo is really really good. Adds a marked sweetness to the filter coffee.

LMSC

DavecUK The ability to swap the burrs for filter is great, considering I drink filter most of the time. 😊

DavecUK

LMSC The ability to swap the burrs for filter is great, considering I drink filter most of the time. 😊

I drink filter once or twice per week, morning or afternoon and I will always swap the burrs due to the improvement in flavour over espresso burrs. This is true of any espresso burr as the characteristics needed to make espresso, are different to those needed for filter.

All Espresso burrs will do filter of similar quality, but you can’t beat a filter specific burr and I even put the Mazzer filter burr up against the SSP filter burr and I considered the Mazzer burr better. In blind taste tests, I can usually identify the Mazzer burr 100% of the time.

LMSC

DavecUK I will always swap the burr

Likewise, except it stays there for a few days. The pattern is more like Saturday to Tuesday espresso burrs set and filter burrs Wednesday to Friday. 😊

I don’t like the filter coffee from espresso burrs set.

LMSC

The Foundry’s Jairo Arcila and Kenyan Karimikui pulled some great espresso and a lovely flat white. Rave’s Guatemala La Esperanza Nº 262 was also nice to drink as a long black and as a nutty flat white. All were pulled at 94C/100C.

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