64mm burrs for high volume brew grinding?

HarveyMushman

Looking for some help from all you burr aficionados.

Since I started roasting at home, I’ve foolishly agreed to continue servicing the requests of friends and family to roast their coffee and as a result finding myself bag-grinding for those that don’t own grinders.

Given that I’ve got a doserless Super Jolly sitting around idle, I thought it could make a decent enough dedicated bag grinder for 250g at a time. It’s got stock burrs in at the minute that are fairly tired so I wondered which 64mm burrs are suited to brew methods?

MediumRoastSteam

I suppose it all depends how appreciative of fresh coffee your friends are. Given they don’t have a grinder themselves, I doubt that they will even complain if the burrs are not the “right” ones for grinding for brewed coffee.

if I were you, just give it a go and see how it works out. I used to grind for friends in a Wilfa Svart back in the day… They were over the moon. :-)

HarveyMushman

Yeah fair point. I doubt they would notice. Its as much for my benefit to rip through 250g quicker than my other grinders do it.

It’s more just that the Mazzer burrs in the SJ are shot as they’re the ex-commercial use ones that came in it when I bought it and they look like they’ve ground about 10 tonnes of coffee.

I had SSP in it when I used it but sold them.

So I need new burrs really, and thought I’d go for some filter ones.

FadedFrontiers

HarveyMushman Fellow ode brew burrs are good value in my experience. First generation ones can be found very cheap second hand now and even gen 2 will be roughly ⅓ of SSPs new. I personally prefer gen 2s but if your friends don’t have their own grinders I’m sure they won’t complain about you going for gen 1s to save some money!

tompoland

Given that the coffee will stale quite quickly after grinding and your friend’s not caring too much about that (or not knowing about it) I’d simply replace the burrs with stock Mazzers. They are as cheap as chips, do a better job than many burr sets and will last 500 kilos or more.

It would be different if you wanted to drink the coffee that the grinder was used for. Then I’d be suggesting Gorilla Gear DLC burrs which do well at both espresso and brew.

HarveyMushman

Thanks guys!

Love the Ode Gen 2 burrs, it’s what I use for filter grinding and what I have been using for bag grinding to this point but it’s not ideal and unbelievably messy.

I’ll get a set of the Mazzer’s!