Best hand-grinder under £200?
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DavecUK In fact, anyone buying anything (beans, machines, accessories)in the UK should ask the same thing…if you don’t ask you won’t get.
Do you give any discounts to member of https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com
They can only say no…..if they stop and think though, we are getting larger and busier and higher up in the search rankings, by asking there are 2 unsaid messages to the smart retailer.
I would like to see if you offer a discount as a member of a busy UK coffee forum, If I’m asking you, I am asking other people as well and I may buy from one of them if they offer a discount.
By giving a discount, I am likely to mentioning you, the product and the price favourably to other members, who may choose you, your product etc.. over the competition
Although the forum itself is non-commercial, and we don’t have advertisers, the more members that ask for a discount, might make things work to the benefit of all members.
I had a good chat with Foundry about their beans, the roast level and the positive reviews our forum members have about their coffee. I don’t know who the gentleman was. I should have asked. He was friendly, helpful and polite.
- He asked a lot of questions on how I identify the roast level and the roasting process, which I answered to the best of my knowledge. He said people seldom call and talk about coffee roasting, and the roast level in as much detail as I did. He was glad I had called.
- He refused to be drawn in calling out the roasts. He said they call them as medium roasts if there is a query as people purely go by the colour of the beans, which is he said is not correct.
- But, he picked out Rocko Mountain and Columbian Diofanor Ruiz on the lighter roast side.
- On the discount for forum members, he asked what forum is this. I gave him the name, the number of members, how busy the forum is, etc., and a potential market for sales. While he appreciated we had asked, he politely said no discount as a company policy. Perhaps, he might have a re-think if a few more were to call and ask.
LMSC While he appreciated we had asked, he politely said no discount as a company policy for any one of any size. Perhaps, he might have a re-think if a few more were to call and ask.
That’s a very interesting response from Foundry!
Really pleased with the C40. Dare I say it I think I actually prefer the pourover coffee from it over the x54. Which I’m fine with since the whole purpose was to use this exclusively for brew.
Tried it with Rave’s Chatswood which we’re very familiar with and it’s certainly slightly more complex. Really enjoyable.
And yes, also impressed with how easily and quickly it grinds.
DavecUK Yeah!
For the record. I did speak to David @BlackCatCoffee recently re-placing two separate orders and also asked him about the forum discount. He straightaway said the usual Forum 15 can be applied for beans. David is a thorough gentleman, unbiased and helpful.
We ordered a KG of Costa Rican, which is excellent as espresso and pour overs and 2 × 250g ground — CP and a half decaf, which the girls are loving them. They now find their usual waitrose ground coffee meh….
I wonder if anyone tried their Ethiopian and El Salvador
LMSC But, he picked out Rocko Mountain and Columbian Diofanor Ruiz on the lighter roast side
My favourites! 😍
Ernie1 I had to join you and @Mark-drinks-coffee on owning a C40, ordered mine today :D also Mark has the best name and you have the best year in your name….no clues to anything related to me their.
Also it adds to the story no one is talking about “Is @Ernie1 the same person as @Frothbewithyou ?”
Ha! Definitely not the same person.
It was also a good year for Harley Davidsons, which is where my username comes from. Another of my passions.
I need to choose less expensive hobbies…
Welcome to the C40 club! Let us know how you get on with it.
Good choice on the C40, especially for pourover. Lots of recipes where the number of clicks is given is helpful as a starting point. I don’t use it for espresso as whilst it is possible, is a step too far in terms of workflow / time / effort. Possible exception if I’m using the Robot is my Helor Flux as it grinds easily and quickly with its gear reduction. Bit steep for a hand grinder though.
Haven’t used 1zpresso but Feld47, Kinu47, OE Fixie etc.. do give a similar grind consistency. Just prefer the C40 in taste for pourover but it is splitting hairs
Yep, really pleased. Having had it a week now I can say with confidence it’s producing some of the best pourover coffee I’ve ever made, both on the V60 and Moccamaster.
It’s a joy to use, and 32g in the morning takes barely any time at all to grind with little effort.
I hadn’t heard of that pricey grinder you mentioned but I probably should stop Googling it as it looks rather special!
All this talk about C40’s is getting me tempted, how much of a difference in taste would i expect to gain from my humble MBK aergrind
ken0062 All this talk about C40’s is getting me tempted, how much of a difference in taste would i expect to gain from my humble MBK aergrind
I’m not sure if I could taste the difference between a brew with a C40 and a more entry level grinder (if that’s even the right phrase) based purely on how skilled my palette is. I did previously have a Hario Mini Mill but any improvement in my cup is likely more to do with better technique than purely the grinder.
Pretty sure the reviews/ tests for the C40 show it’s grind profile is pretty good, i.e. less fines/ boulders compared to other hand grinders. Whether you can taste that in the cup probably depends on how skilled your palette is.
What I do get with the C40 is consistency, i.e. every time I set it to ‘x’ clicks it’s exactly the same each time, which wasn’t the case with my previous grinder. It’s also much easier to set it to the right number of clicks whereas with the Hario I never knew exactly which setting it was on. All of this means a consistently better cups than I had previously.
DavecUK Me too. The Kinu M47 Classic grinds in close to the same time as my Niche did. I guess I have fast twitch muscles? Sometime between now and the end of eternity*, I have Malwini Livi hand grinder arriving. My guess is that it will grind my 18 grams in under 30 seconds, maybe less. (I’ll let you know 😀)
** Ordered last June
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Mark-drinks-coffee I’d bet dollars to donuts you would notice the difference. I’ve done a few back to back grinder tests (not exactly like Hoffman or Rao!) and each time I was surprised that I could notice a significant difference. I guess I was not surprised that the burrs produced different flavors; it was more that my unsophisticated and uneducated palate could detect such a marked difference.
(Caveat: the tests have to alongside each other or at least back to back.)
@Mark-drinks-coffee @Ernie1 just to commandante users, I have found that for speciality coffee, especially lighter roasts I find going down to the 17-19 click range has been amazing (18g to 1:16 ratio)
I think the guidance for 24 clicks for pour over is very subjective and I have found experimenting is still recommended. I have 3 beans on the go for tasting at the moment,one is 17, one 18 clicks and one is 19 clicks.
24 was too coarse and flowed too quickly. Results may vary but thought it was a handy tip 👍
I haven’t attached my red clix upgrade yet as I familiarise myself with it. It’s been amazing though and a game changer for pour overs for me.
Yeah I agree. I tend to favour medium/darker roasts but the few times I’ve had a lighter roast it’s definitely needed to go down to the kind of range you mention.
Is this for a v60/ pour over? I fell out a bit with pour overs a few months ago and now mainly stick to clever or espresso.
I was finding it really hard to get a consistent recipe that gave me good brews with the v60, a lot of the time it was draining too quick but I was up around that 24 click range so it might be that I need to knock it down to around 18 and try again - great tip!
Interested to hear how you get on with red clix, my first thought would be it would be more applicable to espresso than pour over as I’ve not found myself between clicks on pour over but definitely have on espresso.