Hi, I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
And today we have with us, the Mahlkönig X54, it's a brand
A new grinder being released.
And it's the first time Mahlkönig's done the home machine.
People have been asking for it.
Now, this is it.
First home grinder from the Mahlkönig brand.
And it's a pretty special grinder.
Obviously, the famous grind is EK43, which we'll talk about its history
later as quite a long history.
Now this home grinder simple to use and sits on the higher end of home grinders.
So along the lines of the Eureka Mignon XL, or the.
Mazzer Mini E etc with this grinder you've got a step
of grind adjustment, so 60 notches, but stepless. you got four grind
settings for four different times or grind on demand and a portafilter
support that holds your portafilter.
Now with the support easily to remove any kind of adjust the, a
filter Heights, or just say between a normal portafilter a La Marzocco
Portafilter to be the support or naked.
I think the annoying part would be to if you're trying to use more than one.
Yeah.
Porter filters to adjust between the two could be a little bit awkward.
So if we turn off the grinder there at the rear can actually press
this button and remove the support.
And that's when you're the adjuster, you can loosen that screw and adjust
the height between Portafilters.
Now it has this support, but also has a support.
If you're running the filter coffee cup.
So to run, just say your Aeropress or filter coffee to grind
a will go from espresso or the way to a course filter.
You can also use, instead of using one, these cups, you can buy
a dosing cup like this in which you could grind into the cup and
then run it into your portafilter.
Very common way of doing it, especially on EKS on the bigger brothers.
That's how it's commonly used.
Putting that before the filter support back in.
And turning that, grinder back on.
If we look through the menu, we've got four different settings, 1,
2, 3, 4 with different timing.
You have to adjust the time to the simple, hold the button until it flashes.
And in one ball wants to say, we want to call it 16.2 would go up
to two, press it in, go up to six, leave it at one, hold it down.
And when now set.
So super quick to adjust between times in all four settings.
And you can grind on the man by hitting the start-stop, or
obviously with your Portafilter.
So in this case, we're going to grind 16.2 seconds.
We're roughly adjusted in the early on.
Give me one sec.
I actually got to measure the, they say that this grind is quite quiet,
I believe around the 80 decibels.
So we're just going to measure it while we grind it out.
Okay.
So we had it super close to the grinder, looked around the 82 to 83 decibels,
which is quite low for a home grinder.
We could obviously weigh at checkout coffee and doll at end, even further.
We were testing it earlier and we were getting a variance of
about 0.2 of a gram between shots.
So when we'd doll that into 20 grams on the different setting,
we're getting anywhere from 19.9 to 20.1 20 to 20.2 around there.
So very accurate grinder looking further.
Into it, you can adjust the settings super easy, but you can also
activate the wifi at the moment.
There's no app.
You can log in from a computer and basic seat.
The analytics, how many coffees you've ground.
Is there any error codes, et cetera, kinda geeky kind of useful.
I'm not sure how often would be using it in a home environment, but the
options there with the hopper, they've done something to you, which is.
The hopper support here is actually what activates it
being locked in to be removed.
So once you cut the beans, you can remove the hopper.
The grinder only works with a hopper installed.
So you can't actually do like a niche finder where you're just doing a
single dosing, but effectively that's not what this grinder is built for.
So with that said, I believe that the neck of the grinder only holds a small amount
of coffee around the five to seven grams.
So the retention is quite low between shots looking at it further, the
the tray comes out easy for cleaning, and it really is a home grinder,
basically super consistent.
We're looking at it, the particle St very consistent, but would
have to really put it through a curve or something and analyze it.
To see the variance, just going to punch out a few quick dot points on the 50 . So
suggest 54mm blades, 1,050 RPM motor Five hundred grams hopper it's 42.5
centimeters tall and a weighs 5.1 kilos.
They just give you a bit of an indication or what you're looking at.
From a numeric standpoint, I promise a quick history on
Mahlkönig and here it is.
So this is a Mahlkönig EK43, which you would have seen in most cafes,
coffee, roastery, specialty cafes.
It really is a hero staple for coffee.
Well, it actually came about with a funny story.
Now, Mahlkönig could be making grindersin Germany since I think 1920s.
Grinders for all things, spices, wheat, coffee, et cetera.
And they actually weren't that popular EK was about to get phased out.
And the EK was not only came in this format.
They came as an EKK, which was a basically grinder facing each way.
Like your head and later down that is EK 43 S which was a shorter version.
And that really came out to people, modifying them and run running shorter.
But these grinders.
We're basically retail coffee grinders.
So you put in your coffee.
Put a one kilo bag in there and just grind away.
There was a, yeah.
Cafe, but owned by Scott Rao, there was using these grinders and really
they getting high yields out of it.
High copy contents, TDS, and an Australian called Matt Perger had
been in that Cafe and really asked questions and fell in love with the
extraction that Scott was getting.
Basically, Matt competing in the world barista comp
Used the EK, the rest is history since then they did not discontinue them.
Now. They can't even produce enough of them.
It feels like every cafe in the specialty world has one.
People modify them.
They've gone shorter.
They've put different dial plates on 'em different blades being made, like companies
like SSP have done red-coated blades.
There's it's so many because they're already a retail coffee and people using
them for espresso things like Titus put in mechanisms to shut and open the
enclosure here, and you can Google it.
You can watch other YouTube.
There is so much out there on the EK.
And from that the brand now Mahlkönig really made its huge
presence in the speciality world.
And now we have the.
It's sitting in between these the 65S is 65S Grind by Weight E80 Supreme.
And now the X54 home grinder, Mahlkönig is saying the kingdom, his home,
they are the king of the speciality.
Well, and this is their new baby.
So that's a brief history to explain to you why this machine is so popular among
the coffee lovers and coffee geeks out there because it's a baby of that based.
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