Hi,
I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts
And today we're looking at these
The Etzinger Etzmax coffee grinders
The Etzinger Etzmax
was launched in 2018 after seven years of research and development.
The actual Etzinger factory was founded by Christian Etzinger,
who is a Switzerland based aeronautical engineer,
and you can see alot the engineering principles
now, the Etzinger factory specializes in making grinders,
both standalone units and grinders inside coffee machines
as well as a precision high caliber conical burrs
Now these grinders may look familiar
because Etzinger has been building grinders for other grinding manufacturers.
Think Baratza In this set ranges
Breville, La Marzocco with The Swift Mini, Ditting.
and even the hand grinders
For Orphan espresso
When it comes to engineering,
One thing that stands out on these grinders
is how modular they are.
The grinders really can be pulled apart without any tools and put back together,
and it can be interchangeable and even upgradable.
Now, in the Etzmax range, there's actually three units.
We have two on display here, but there's three all up.
There's the Etzmax light
The Etzmax Plus
And the Etzmax Filter
Now the difference between the light
and the plus, is just on the capacity of the Etz Jet
the motor inside them
With the light been good for 700 to 1000 kilos
and the plus being good from 1500 to 2000 kilos.
Now within these you then have the T and the W
T been for time based, grinding and W for weight based grinding.
So as a name suggest with the T they grind based on time
and with the W is based on weight and using an acaia Load Cell
So not only does it use an Acaia load cell, it comes even with the Acaia
500 grams calibration and weight
and everything is interchangeable.
You could add in that load.
So later down the track if you really wanted to.
in terms of been modular.
They obviously have the same bodies
and you can just pull apart things like the Portafilter support.
The hopper
just by closing the shoot pulling it out and lifting the hopper
and even the whole collar here.
So does this go to coarser all the way
and then that whole unit comes down?
One of the main things with the Etzinger range is the RRB.
Rotating ring burr.
What effectively that means is it's actually the external conical blade
that rotates, not the internal.
And that is quite unique with most grinders
having the internal one rotating directly from a motor or a shaft.
What this means is the coffee beans can go straight from the top,
grind in straight through
if you don't have a motor connected there to most actually sitting off to the side.
And that allows for very easy cleaning.
It comes with these two brushes, which means you can just put the brush
straight through and clean it out and give any other area a nice little clean.
And that means that the whole unit can be cleaned easily without any tools.
Talking about being interchangeable, they also have three different hoppers.
You got the short hopper, which is this one with tall hopper,
and you got a single dose hopper.
That's an optional extra that we don't have here today.
Just putting this back together, it's very simple.
You just align the notches with the notches in here, then turn it back to fine
The portafilter support slides back in.
the hopper goes on,
gets locked back in and you can open the chute.
You can clearly see when it says open,
when it comes to adjusting them.
Also super simple.
They have three settings one, two and three.
And now this grinder is based on time.
So 5.4, meaning 5.4 seconds, you can just go up or down
and just say you want it to go 5.5 seconds,
hit that one position or whatever position you want to save it, flush that.
Now it's saved into that.
You can also grind manually with start and stop functions.
On this one.
It's exactly the same, but it's based on weight.
So you've got your three buttons 21, grams,
22 and 25.
Just say you want to increase that to 26 grams.
You could just go up to 26.
Hold that three down.
Once it beeps, it's now set at 26 grams.
Calibrating the scale is also super simple.
It comes with an Acaia 500 grams calibration weight.
You effectively just pull out the Portafilter support.
Hold down
the stop button for 5 seconds
once it flashes
put on the weight of the Acaia on the support.
Let it register
once it registers this hold that button down again
5 seconds
and now it's back to being calibrated
and simple as that back to position one we can put our weight away
and we've recalibrated if you ever need to recalibrate
and just put in that portafilter support
and talking about Portafilter support,
it's super easy without any tools to adjust your Portafilter support,
just pull it out.
Obviously it's a little bit too high now.
We need to bring that down
and there we have it
and just bring it back in there.
Now we have our Portafilter support
that's adjusted for this portafilter without any tools.
And the Etzmax comes in three colors white,
black and silver, which is not on display.
Let's get some coffee in there and actually see these grinders grinding.
So we got the portafilter at zero we're just looking at in
and we're going to go for 21 grams.
One thing I like compared to other grinders is being conical
and the way that the coffee comes down, it's not really making any mess.
And the portafilter is taring quite quickly on the grinder,
it takes up to 2 seconds to tear, but it is has been quite quick
and we've got spot on 21 grams.
like earlier today
we were going through coffee after coffee and it's now 21 grams every time
talking about retention, these guys can have up 0.8 of a gram of retention,
which is very low, not zero, obviously, but very low and next to zero retention.
So it's actually been quite impressive that you can dial in
so neatly being stepless that the grind is neat.
We're seeing like a very clean area on the grinder
and the wheight has been very consistent.
21 grams in this case shot off the shot.
Now it is a conical blade grinder and there is a big divide
between conical and flat burrs and what is best.
Etzinger also is the only grinder manufacturers
that do make a weight based conical grinder.
Now, obviously, Baratza has one, but it is made by Etzinger.
So they are leaders in that respect.
And to pull these grinders apart, really, if you wanted to completely open them
and just say replace that motor out after 2000 kilos, there's literally
this behind here, three screws comes out, there's a couple of screws
holding the motor in.
And apart from that, you don't need any tools.
So they have really reinvented the grinder somewhat and made it really cool.
Talking about grind speed on the light, it grinds it between 3 to 3.5 grams
per second
and on the plus it grinds at 3.8
To 5.5 grams per second.
The plus also incorporates a small fan on the EtzMax motor
and that just keeps it cooler in terms of when you use it in multiple shots.
The plus is more design for, say, your single
origin or decaf coffee grinder in a cafe.
When the light's more designed as your home coffee grinder,
they can get them in three different conical burrs options
your light cone, your high cone, your filter cone.
The light cone has a slow intake of beans is more for all round blade
for from light roast to dark roast, with the high cone being a faster burn
but more focused with humid to dark roast
and your filter cone there to generate less fires.
When it comes to filter.
From factory, they come with the low cone,
but you can buy the burrs as optional parts.
And as you saw before, opening them up and pulling them out really is a quick job.
Your bottom cone comes out just from here and your external cone is from the top.
IBut t's super simple to do.
So, I'm curious to know.
Let me know in the comments below.
If you have a grinder running the Etzjet technology
being a Baratza Sett, La Marzocc swift mini
even an Orphan espresso hand grind or one of these Etzmax grinders.
Just want to see how many people are using this technology out there.
We've actually done a video on the Etzinger whole range
as well as the Etz-i the hand grinder
and the Etzman, the countertop round grinder
Which uses the bodies of these
and we'll have links to these videos down below.
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