My grinder at home is a Rancilio Doser grinder, its a big commercial grinder with a coffee bean hopper designed to gobble up 1kg at a time - its intimidating, and noisy, but the main problem is that it retains so much coffee grinds in the chute - enough for a full shot of coffee at least 10 grams. Thats going to make the second coffee for the day more stale than it needs to be, and with fresh roasted coffee, freshness is important.
I decided to drop some money on the Baratza Preciso grinder, which has had some great reviews and compares nicely, and sometimes better than the Vario, which is twice the price. Mark Prince, a renowned coffee expert in the USA has pegged as being as good as grinders costing $1500-$2000 when you examine the quality of the grinds from the conical burr.
I decided to drop some money on the Baratza Preciso grinder, which has had some great reviews and compares nicely, and sometimes better than the Vario, which is twice the price. Mark Prince, a renowned coffee expert in the USA has pegged as being as good as grinders costing $1500-$2000 when you examine the quality of the grinds from the conical burr.
Things I really like about the Preciso;
- Its got a small footprint, so fits in perfectly on a kitchen bench.
- Has over 40 macro/micro grind adjustments which work very well, alowing you to both finetune your espresso grind AND jump between drip/filter/plunger or anything else, AND back again without skipping a beat.
- The bean hopper holds 250g of coffee beans
- Did I already say, it looks great?
This is me being a little cheeky, sitting the Baratza Preciso on top of kitchen scales and pouring exactly the amount of beans into the hopper to get that exact same amount of beans into the coffee basket - this works because there is almost zero coffee grounds retention meaning the coffee beans that go into the hopper come out of the chute leaving no grinds behind.
