Hi to all. I’ve just ordered an Helor 106. While I’m waiting for this much anticipated grinder, I’ve been searching for all available information.
I found grind size recommendations on Honest Coffee, but following the ideas I propose below, they have missinterpreted the scale on the bottom of the grinder… (I will explain why I say this below)
I also saw a number of people in written and Youtube reviews saying that it is rather difficult to set the grind size because there are NO NUMBERS. This also may be just because of that same missunderstanding…
So let me explain what I noticed, and how this may help ENORMOUSLY!
There happen to be 12 major divisions and 60 minor divisions.
Lo and behold, what else has 12 major divisions and 60 minor divisions??
THE CLOCK FACE!
I don’t think that this CAN be accidental. I reckon that despite saying nothing about this on the product page, that Helor DESIGNED the divisions to reflect the Clock Face!
So while I’m waiting for my big “self-pressie”, I decided to put this insight into graphical form using CorelDRAW. I’ve done Clock Face charts for each of the main coffee brewing methods, using the data from the Honest Coffee chart - BUT correcting the mistake they had made of assuming that there were 120 minor divisions (60 visible, with 60 “virtual”)
I share each of these here, although unfortuately I don’t think I can share the cdr file?
You STILL need to take care of the “Full Turns”, but I reckon that MOST users are not going to be switching methods, and so will be mostly within one “Full Turn”? Certainly I will only be using it for Espresso, Moka-Pot, Turkish or Aero-Press….
I show the “Full Turns” with small dots of three colours at the “Twelve O’Clock”, “One O’Clock”, and “Two O’Clock” positions.
Each chart needs to be separate, and I decided that actual Clock hands confused the issue, since there would have to be TWO hour hands and TWO minute hands. How would one distinguish??
Each chart has the info ALSO as a phrase - AND IT’S THE PHRASE which will help you to remember THE MOST-EST!
I hope you like, and it helps you other Helor 106 users!
Regards Greg
