Cuprajake Iām definitely a subscriber to the āpay once, cry onceā method.
The 12 months 0% APR offer is at shopcoffee.co.uk, financed via Klarna - but their prices seem to be 10% higher than everywhere else š They have some really nice Ceado grindersā¦ for Ā£4500, which seems frankly taking the piss.
Newdent Again - thanks for the tips; the serial number on the Kony Iām looking at starts with 16, so itās about 5-6 years old rather than 2 as per the sellerās reply to my questionā¦
The ālikingā for conicals comes from reading that they are particularly well suited to medium/dark roasts, which is what we like as a family. Whether thatās trueā¦ remains to be seen; I havenāt seen/read anything that is particularly convincing one way or the other, however both the Niche and the Kony seem to have a very good set of burrs! The appeal of the Kony is/was - to a large extent - the fact that the Niche has the same burrs, and everyone raves about the coffee ground by them.
The Mini (IMHO) seems to be an āold design schoolā product: Mazzer designed a āhome grinderā by scaling down a successful commercial design, without considering the actual use case needs; much cheaper/faster to do, but not necessarily as effective. It ends up - as far as I can tell, and these are all āpaperā considerations - with an underpowered motor, a not-great set of burrs (at least the 58 mm versions), less precision in fabrication and relatively high retention as the chamber is shaped and finished as on the larger machines. Plus, for effectively the same price once used, one can get a Super Jolly or a Major which seem to be better grinders. The only significant advantage the Mini has is the small footprint (which for me is not at all relevant). All this said, I really donāt know what Iām talking about - Iām just looking at this with the eye of somebody trained in designing and engineering products, but with zero expertise in coffee equipment!
