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Welcome to today's video, which is a beginner's guide
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to coffee grinders.
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Because there's a lot of different coffee grinders out there
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which is the right one for you?
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Which one meets your needs?
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Which is the best value for money?
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Now, what we're gonna do today
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is cover a little bit of theory at the start
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on coffee grinding, right?
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Understanding what's going on,
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why it's something worth worrying about,
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why it's something we're spending money
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on a bit of equipment to do it.
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And then in the second half,
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we'll talk through all of these grinders here
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and talk through the features that you get,
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what happens when you spend more money
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and you, I hope at the end of it,
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will feel well-equipped
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to buy a coffee grinder that meets your needs
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and have even better tasting coffee every morning.
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One quick thing,
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I'm not gonna necessarily recommend specific models,
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nor review specific models in this video.
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Where I've talked about grinders before
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they'll be links down in the description,
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you can watch those.
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I've done a number of different videos
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on particular grinders.
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Today, these are kind of representative grinders
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of different technologies or different features
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just to kind of explain what's happening
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when you spend more money.
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But let's start with the theory.
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Let's start with what happens when we grind coffee.
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Why we grind coffee in the first place.
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Now our whole coffee bean is a wonderful thing,
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but it doesn't make a good tasting coffee.
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Water cannot get to all of the flavor
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'cause it could only sort of get
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to the very outside of the bean.
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And so if you put whole beans in hot water
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some flavor will come out, but really not very much.
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And so we grind it, we smash it into little tiny pieces
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because what we're concerned about first and foremost
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is exposing sort of more surface area.
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And the finer you grind anything,
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the more surface area that you have,
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and the easier it is for the water to get in there,
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dissolve the flavor out, get it into your cup of coffee
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and for you to have a better
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more delicious cup at the end of it.
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Now, one of the big sells you'll hear
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for a coffee grinder is that freshness
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is actually a really key aspect of grinding coffee.
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And that's true, when you smash coffee,
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you expose all of the surface area
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and it means everything that you've exposed
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can begin to go stale.
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And there are three ways in which coffee goes stale.
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The first and to me kind of saddest
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is the idea that you just lose those flavors.
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They go, what's called volatilely,
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float off into the atmosphere
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and those flavors and aromas essentially wander off.
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You'll smell them for a minute
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and then you won't get to drink them later.
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So that's kind of a thing.
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So the older coffee is the more flavor
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essentially just loses to the air, to the atmosphere.
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The second thing that happens
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is that you have what are called sort of staling reactions
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where different compounds combine with each other
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and begin to create new flavors
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that often aren't particularly nice.
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And so after a little while
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your coffee will taste measurably worse
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as well as being less interesting.
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And then the third thing is oxidation.
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And that'll happen to sort of some of the fats
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and oils inside coffee,
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they will oxidize and essentially begin to go rancid.
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It's not a great smell or taste rancid oil,
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and rancid oil in all forms smells a little bit fishy
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and that's true with coffee.
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So very old, very stale, rancid coffee
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is not something I would recommend.
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And the best way to avoid all of those things
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is really only to smash the coffee bean to pieces
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when you want to immediately then brew it,
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that way you capture a lot more flavor,
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you have less loss of quality,
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it's just a better time all around.
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Now occasionally on the internet
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you'll see a thing that says pre-ground coffee
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from a very, very, very good commercial grinder
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will make better coffee in many cases,
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than fresh ground coffee
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from a very cheap coffee grinder.
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And that's an interesting test and study that was done.
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I think it ignores some of the other reasons
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to buy a coffee grinder.
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We'll get to in a second,
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but really what isn't to be underestimated
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is just the pleasure of grinding coffee.
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In that moment, there is an enormous release
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of smell that is fantastic.
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That moment of grinding coffee
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bit in the morning, first thing, or in the afternoon
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it's a pleasure not to be missed.
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So from that perspective alone,
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a coffee grinder is worth having.
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And if you own a pepper grinder of any kind,
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then you owe it to yourself to own a coffee grinder too,
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if you drink coffee.
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Now, the second thing that gets talked about a lot
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is called grind uniformity.
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And that's the idea that when you grind coffee,
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ideally, the little pieces that you make
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should all be the same size.
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Because when you come to prepare them later,
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brew them into a cup of coffee,
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the more uniform the size is, the better
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they'll give up their flavor in a more uniform way.
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And that makes sense from anything in the kitchen
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if you're trying to cook some potatoes,
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if you cook a little tiny piece of potato
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and a whole potato, they'll cook at very different rates
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and they probably won't cook well together.
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Same thing with coffee grinding, right?
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If you are trying to brew loads of little tiny pieces
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of coffee, alongside loads of very big pieces of coffee,
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you'll get a lot of flavor out of the tiny pieces
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and not very much out of the other pieces.
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And this can result in a very unbalanced,
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unpleasant cup of coffee.
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Those tiny pieces can add some bitterness,
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those giant pieces can add some sourness,
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and those two things combined
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are not how I wanna start my day.
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So as we talk through grinders
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you'll hear me reference this idea of grind uniformity.
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And it is important,
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it helps you make better tasting coffee
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to have the pieces be a very similar size.
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You'll have less unbalanced, less unpleasant cups of coffee,
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more delicious cups of coffee.
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Now the third aspect of coffee grinders
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that's very important of coffee grinding
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that's very important is grind size control.
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The ideal grind size for espresso
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is very different from the ideal grind size
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for something like a French press, for example, right?
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With espresso, you want lots and lots
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of very fine small pieces
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because you're gonna extract that coffee
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with very little liquid to make it very strong.
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With a French press, you might wanna grind it
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a little bit coarser.
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So being able to control the grind size
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is really, really, really important,
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particularly so in espresso,
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but we'll touch on that a little bit later.
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So that's it, that's the key information
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to think about as we go into looking
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at these different grinders,
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it'll help us to understand
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why you might wanna spend a bit more money here or there.
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So let's start with these 10 grinders in front of me.
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Let's start at the beginning
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with the cheapest grinder on offer,
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which is this it's a blade grinder.
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And these can be had for like 20 pounds,
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they're very cheap, they're very simple things.
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You've got a little motor
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and that's attached to some spinning blades inside here.
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And when you turn the grinder on
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they spin really, really quickly
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and essentially those blades, they're not really sharp
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they kind of just smash the coffee down into little pieces.
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The longer you run it, the finer the coffee will be.
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But the problem with these,
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is that you really don't have any control
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meaningfully over grind size.
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To have really the same grind size
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every time is quite tricky,
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and to have a uniform grind size is extremely unlikely.
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This kind of act of violence
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of just smashing the coffee beans instead of cutting them
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creates a lot of very fine pieces
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that can add a lot of muddiness and bitterness
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and kind of dullness to your cup of coffee in the morning.
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I'm not saying you can't enjoy coffee
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made with a blade grinder,
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and there's some hacks you can do too
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to improve the quality of its output
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that's linked up here.
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If you're enjoying coffee with a blade grinder now,
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you could really, really be enjoying your coffee
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a lot more with a better grinder
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that offers you a little bit more control and uniformity.
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If you own one of these and you're upgrading from it,
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do not throw it away
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they make for fantastic spice grinders,
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they are useful to have around.
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But to grind coffee
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they are a little bit frustrating.
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So then we move from what are called blade grinders
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into the rest of these, which are called burr grinders.
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So inside these, you've got two cutting discs,
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one spins against the other
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and controlling the distance between the two
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controls how big the pieces are when they finally get out
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of the grinder into the collection bin below
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where you're gonna sort of take them
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and then pour them into your brewery
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or whatever you're gonna do with them.
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This is a classic kind of entry-level hand grinder.
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It's relatively cheap, it's about 40 pounds.
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And a lot of people choose to start
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their sort of grinding journey
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here with one of these 'cause it's not a huge investment.
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And that's true, you'll have some control
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of the grind setting.
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In something like this,
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you kind of control the burr distance.
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This is a conical burr grinder.
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So you've got a kind of cone-shaped main burr
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that spins inside this thing.
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Conical burrs are popular and a lot of grinders
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they have a larger cutting surface
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which helps you to kind of grind more coffee
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through kind of per turn, which is useful.
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This is in contrast to what are called flat burr grinders.
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We have two discs or rings of cutting teeth,
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one spins against the other, same control mechanism
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you just move them further apart
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for a coarser grind or closer together for a finer grind.
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Now the burrs and cheaper hand grinders especially
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tend to be made of ceramic.
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This is a cheaper material to produce.
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They don't cut quite as cleanly.
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So your grind uniformity isn't quite as good
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as a metal burr,
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but as an entry-level thing, they work okay.
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What you tend to see also in cheaper burr grinders
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is a little bit of wobbling
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from that bottom burrs that's grinding.
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'Cause it's not stabilized super well
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because they're trying to keep costs down.
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That will also result in a less uniform cup of coffee.
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So if you look at going from say 40 pounds
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up to 100 pounds, right?
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You've got the same basic technology.
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You're gonna be doing the work here.
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You are turning, you're working to crush the coffee
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between those burrs.
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Now, here you go from a plastic construction
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to a metal construction,
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and you go from ceramic burrs to metal burrs.
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So it's a big jump in quality
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going from 40 pounds to say 100 pounds.
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Now with the previous grinder
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and this grinder and the next grinder too,
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they are what's called stepped grinders,
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where you adjust the grind here at the bottom
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by fixed amounts.
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This is sort of a step that kind of clicks into place.
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And that's a controlled movement.
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That means that you've got pretty good control
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of a ground size, but not infinite control in a way.
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And later on, we'll talk about stepless grinders.
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But for the purposes here, steps work very well,
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they're repeatable, they're useful to have.
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This will do a better job grinding coffee
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than the 40 pound grinder, by a good amount actually.
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By not needing a motor, by having you do the hard work
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you can kind of invest a bit more in the other things
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like the burr quality and get better results for less money.
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The downside of course, is that you have to do the grinding
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every time, every morning.
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And if you're growing a lot of coffee
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that can take a while and it is hard work
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grinding the coffee is relatively physical.
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That can change with more expensive grinders
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or bigger grinders,
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but ultimately hand grinding
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is something you have to kind of enjoy doing.
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As you go from 100 pounds
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up to something much more expensive
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in the hand grinder world,
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generally, you're getting an increase in construction.
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Again, this is better made,
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this feels solid, it's great materials,
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but really you're could be paying
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for better grind uniformity.
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And that's what more expensive
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hand grinders generally offer.
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And at this price point
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the grinds coming from this are very, very good.
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And you can grind effectively
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for espresso with an expensive hand grinder,
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it's really hard work, but you can do it
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or you can grind for filter coffee pretty well.
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So that's kind of what you've spent with hand grinders
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going from something pretty cheap,
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cheaper materials, cheaper burr construction,
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less uniformity, and that's what's increased
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as you've gone up and up and up.
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So there are lots of reasons to have a hand grinder.
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It might be that you travel a lot,
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it might be that you like camping,
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it might be that just you enjoy that whole thing.
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But if you are at home
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you're grinding coffee every single day,
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then I would recommend investing
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in an electric coffee grinder.
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And that's where we start here.
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So this grinder here is cheaper than this hand grinder.
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It's a little bit more expensive than this grinder here,
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but it's a great way to start the day.
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You have an electric motor in there
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and that spinning a conical burr set.
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And that's what you tend to see
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at entry-level decent home electric grinder price points.
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Now cheaper grinders will have cheaper motors
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and because grinding coffee is hard work,
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a cheaper motor will overcome
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the sort of power needed to crush those beans
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by just spinning faster.
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So you'll tend to see cheaper grinders
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have faster RPMs on their motors.
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They don't always grind coffee through the burrs quicker,
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but they will generally be a little bit louder.
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That motor spinning generates some noise,
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if it's spinning very fast, the way it cuts coffee
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you'll just get a bit more noise in the morning.
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This grinder, as you tend to see at this price point
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is a stepped grinder.
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So you've got fixed steps
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and it's not really able to do espresso, right?
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We talked about having a cheaper motor
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spinning a bit faster,
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but when you're grinding very, very, very fine
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you need a lot of power,
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you need a lot of talk in that motor
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and cheaper motors just can't do it.
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So you tend to see cheaper grinders like this are great
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if you need filter coffee,
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but not great if you're trying to brew espresso.
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If you look at say a filter dedicated grinder
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at about 125 pounds going up to say 250 pounds,
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then you see a variation in the features
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that's kind of interesting.
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This grinder was initially designed
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to hold like a bag of coffee in the hopper here
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and have a little timer on the side
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that you would adjust it, you'd push go
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and it would grind for a fixed amount of time
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to dispense the amount of coffee that you wanted.
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But that's not how many people
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want a coffee grinder to work.
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You want what's called a single dose grinder.
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Where you're gonna put in what you need
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and no more in terms of coffee beans
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for that drink, that batch, whatever it's gonna be.
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It might be that you wanna keep the coffee stored
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and sealed away and not sitting in the grinder.
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It might be that have more than one coffee at home
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and you wanna vary one bean to the next.
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A grinder like this is designed to be a single-dose grinder.
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You can't really fit that much coffee on the top here,
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so you'd only pour in what you'd need.
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Instead of having a timer
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this has an auto shutoff that stops the grinder
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when it's no longer grinding coffee.
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This grinder, like this grinder is a stepped grinder.
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So you've got fixed increments
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that you can adjust the grind size by.
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And this grinder is also a filter coffee only grinder,
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it's motor it's set up is really built around
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filter coffee and not espresso.
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What you tended to see historically
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was when you need espresso
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you had a dedicated espresso style grinder.
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And this is a pretty good example.
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It's a bit of a jump in price
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because you've got a more substantial motor in there
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and this is about I think 350 pounds
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which is some pretty serious money.
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Now this is designed really
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to be a dedicated espresso grinder.
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And it's a little bit more traditional in its design,
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which means it's got a large hopper on top
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to again, hold a big bag of coffee beans in there
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and grind what you need when you need it.
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Many people choose not to do that as I said,
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and use this as single dose,
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though you'd probably wanna replace this hopper
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with something more appropriate.
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What you see as you go from a filter coffee
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dedicated grinder to an espresso dedicated grinder
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is not just the ability to grind finer,
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but you tend to see stepless adjustment, right?
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Where you control the finest or the coarseness
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it's usually just a wheel
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that you can move as little or as much as you want.
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Espresso requires very small adjustments to grind in size
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to have quite a substantial change
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in the way that the coffee brews.
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So you want as much control as is possible.
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So that's what you tend to see
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in a dedicated espresso grinder.
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This will grind using time.
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So you push go and it'll grind for say 9.2 seconds
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to give you a consistent dose of coffee.
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This kind of grinder, you can buy in a huge number
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of different configurations from different manufacturers.
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You'll have different motor sizes,
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different burrs sizes, different burr shapes,
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you know, different kind of technologies
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controlling how much coffee it grinds as it grinds.
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But the base principle is kind of there.
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If you're grinding for espresso
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you need that more powerful motor
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and that tends to mean you need to spend more money
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and that's where your money is going.
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Now, these two grinders are emblematic
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of more modern approaches to grinders.
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This kind of grinder has existed
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for 60, if not 70 years now.
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These are much newer,
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as you'll see they're both grind to order grinders
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they have no real space to hold much coffee,
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they'll hold a single dose under no more,
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but they're also designed to go all the way
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from coarser filter grinds
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through to very fine espresso grinds.
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This one is a flat burr grinder
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and this one is a conical burr grinder.
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This one is a little bit cheaper
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I think at about 400 pounds,
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this one is a little bit more expensive at 500 pounds.
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Feature wise, they're both very similar
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you're grinding into a little collection bin
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that you might then use to pour into a pour-over
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or pour directly into a portafilter
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if you're making a espresso.
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Now the difference of price between the two
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might come down to the design and construction of these,
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the materials used or the components used,
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it might also come down
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to their approach to things like retention.
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Now retention isn't something that we've talked about yet
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but it is something that's actually very important
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and you'll see discussed
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in a lot of different grinder reviews.
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When you put coffee beans into a grinder
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it'll go into a chamber that holds the cutting discs
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those spin, those push out the grounds,
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ideally all of them,
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but typically not quite all of them.
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There might be anywhere from 0.2 of a gram to two grams
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or even sometimes more stuck inside the grinder
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that the mechanism is unable to completely push out.
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Now with more traditional designs like this one
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that wasn't considered a huge issue
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because, you know, it'll be pushed out
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when you grind for coffee the next time.
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The downside is when you change your grind
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you'll have some of the retained old grind setting
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that you would need to purge out.
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That's a little bit wasteful
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and the more you need to purge out with a grinder,
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the more wasteful that grinder is.
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Some commercial grinders can need 20 or 30 grams purging,
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not acceptable, but that's how things were for a long time.
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More modern solutions might need a couple of grams,
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if anything at all.
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So design around retention is really a key thing.
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Here you've got quite a different approach,
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the retention is dealt with by the sort of innate design
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of the burr chamber.
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Here you've got a bellows
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where you'd push down that would blow air
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through the grinding chamber
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pushing out the last bit of coffee
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into the collection cup below.
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That's the kind of idea there.
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How a grinder deals with retention,
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be it bellows or be it a little knocker
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on the side of it is something you should think about,
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and decide how you wanna spend your money
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because it will impact your kind of workflow in the morning.
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Do you wanna have to go and clack a thing a few times
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or press the bellows a few times?
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If it doesn't bother you and it saves you some money,
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then it's worth considering.
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But retention is important
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and retention is discussed a lot
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when you watch other reviews of grinders on YouTube
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or read about them on websites.
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So the understanding I think is really, really, really key.
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Now, one last note on conical versus flat burrs
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and I don't want to get too deeply
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into an esoteric discussion here,
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but some people believe that conical burrs
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suit espresso a little bit more.
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That having a little bit more diversity of size of particle
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can help give some more texture,
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some more body to your espresso.
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Other people prefer sort of flat burr style espresso
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where you have a little bit more clarity,
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maybe more sweetness, but not quite as much texture.
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Understanding that is a consideration
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if you're getting into the fine end
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of dialing into espresso,
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when you've got a great machine
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and you want a great grinder to match it.
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But if it's your first grinder
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it's not something you necessarily need to obsess
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about until your technique
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and other aspects of coffee making catch up to that.
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Now, one last note on burrs is that some grinders
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have options for different burrs that you can install.
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Grinders like this or this,
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you can install different burrs
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from different manufacturers
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that will give you different results.
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If you are shopping for a grinder
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and you're kind of wanting to future-proof it,
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considering a grinder that has some options
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for a grinder burrs is one thing
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to maybe just bear in mind as you're shopping.
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That's not essential, but it is a kind of nice to have,
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if you're thinking about buying a grinder
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that's gonna last you for a really long time
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without worrying about needing to constantly upgrade.
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Now, these nine grinders I have here
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are I think viable first-time purchases,
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even though we've gone all the way up to 500 pounds.
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I could see this still being
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someone's first coffee grinder at home.
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I did want to include a little bit more
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just to explain how people can end up spending
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enormous amounts of money on coffee grinders
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for what they're chasing.
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Now, this grinder in the end is incredibly expensive
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it's three and a half thousand dollars
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but I think it's a good example of how far people will go
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in the chase for better uniformity, better construction
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or better design or better build, more control
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here you've got variable RPM.
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I can change the speed of my motor
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to achieve different results in how it grinds.
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The workflow is kind of different and very nice.
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It's beautiful, I can easily switch the burrs out in it.
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You know, these kind of details
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are what you end up paying for.
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Now understand that going from a more entry-level grinder
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to something like this is a big leap in quality
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and a great return on your investment.
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Going from someone like this, up to someone like this,
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is an increasing quality, but it's a smaller leap,
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it's more incremental increase for a lot more money.
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And that's true of most things in this world, right?
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Like the closer you get to sort of the end goal,
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the more expensive and the more difficult
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it is to do any sort of an upgrade.
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I'm not saying this is bad value for money,
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but if you're looking at spending
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a lot of money on the coffee grinder,
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you really have to have some very specific problems
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that only it will solve for you.
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As a final note, these look like they go
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from sort of the lowest quality to the highest quality,
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but that isn't quite true.
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Hand grinders are a cheaper way to achieve better quality,
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better grind uniformity at lower prices
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'cause you don't have to spend money on the motor,
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so you're just spending on burr and construction generally.
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So that is the beginner's guide to coffee grinders.
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And it's there a hope to help you build a little flow chart
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for you and your needs and your budget.
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If you've got 300 pounds
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and you want a filter coffee grinder,
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then I can help you get to where you need to go
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based on your needs.
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Do you want absolute quality for the money
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or do you want electric motor
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to help you do some of the work?
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These are questions I can't answer for you,
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but hopefully now you can answer them for yourself
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and make a better decision.
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And do know there are still things
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that we haven't talked about here
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that are little details
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that are worth looking out for in reviews.
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Things like the, not just the loudness of a grinder,
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but the quality of sound.
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Does it great on you?
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That kind of stuff.
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Things like the user interface,
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does it frustrate you?
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Is it quirky?
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Is it frustrating?
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Is it finicky?
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Those things are important and should be looked out for
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when you're checking out a review before you purchase.
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But now I wanna hear from you down in the comments below.
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Do you have one of these?
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Are you thinking about upgrading to one of these?
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What are you looking for in a coffee grinder?
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And how has this video potentially helped you
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make a better decision?
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I'd love your feedback, I'd love your thoughts.
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But for now, I'll say thank you so much for watching
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and I hope you have a great day.