Thread: Burr coffee grinder recommendation

Originally Posted by rick130

Blame Ron !
He originally posted the link to Coffee Snobs on here a year ago.

BTW, one of the blokes on CS is doing a group buy of one of these Welcome to Hey Café: Makers of fine Coffee Grinders from China.

Yes, but I was resisting.



Cheers
Simon

James,

I am on my second Sunbeam EMO480 cafe series in three years.

I purchased from Myers for about $160ish.

These have been a great machine. The first one had a problem with the burrs and was replaced no questions asked. Would hold consistant grind.

Second one about two years old no problems, going strong.

I run about 1kg of Nu coffee (Beaconsfield) beans through it every three weeks. These guys have some greeta blends. They supply alot of cafes and restraunts including Matt Moran of Aria.

I use a ECM Giotto machine and the grind is fine.

The next grinder I will get will probably be a a ECM Best grinder. These are about $800. may be a dream.

Regards,

Dave

Thanks everyone for your advice. Shame on the person who played the Defender card to tempt me into the Rocky Rancillo which is out of my price range.

I'm a bit of a quality appliance tragic and tend to wait and then buy high end. I love my Dualit toaster. I can't do that this time, I live near a cafe and make about one cup a week at home. Other times i use it will be to grind a supply for going away camping on the weekend or down south etc. I'm leaning towards the Gaggia or Sunbeam (dm-td5's warning notwithstanding) I might look at both and see how I feel.

I'm also about to buy a Magellan Explorist GPS for $1000 (researching GPS is a nightmare when you know nothing and every time somebody explains it to you, you feel you know less) so no more exxy toys allowed.

Rocky is "The Defender of grinders"......sigh.

Have a Rancilio Rocky grinder for a year now. Still quite happy with it as an espresso grinder.

from what I've read with the Sunbeam, the steps are quite large when trying to finetune the grind for espresso, and some find it doesn't grind fine enough, but there is a modification to fix that

Sunbeam make a fine espresso machine (EM6910) but the burr grinder EM480 (?) is a bit variable in build, a bit like a Land Rover

Get a Nemox Lux... Nemox Lux

Have had mine for 3/4 years now and dad has had his for 5/6 years and they get used 2/3 times a day (about 1 kilo of beans every 2-3weeks), everyday !! Not the best looking thing, but who cares

Originally Posted by JamesH

Thanks everyone for your advice. Shame on the person who played the Defender card to tempt me into the Rocky Rancillo which is out of my price range.....

Rocky is "The Defender of grinders"......sigh.

oh hang on yes it was

anyway, unless you are drinking it daily, I'd be highly tempted to just buy a bit of ground coffee from the cafe near your place and do away with needing a grinder at all!