Hi.
I`m Pedro from Coffee Parts
And today we're looking at different workflows
between a grind on demand or single dose grinder.
What's better for you?
And what are the differences between the two.
So a common question is
what's better, grind on demand or single dose?
Single dose grinders have really become popular.
They solve a lot of problems
and they do make sense
From a perfectionist standpoint.
No retention, easy to dialing in.
You can change between your coffees and you are getting the best results possible.
But in reality, this is not always the best case for everyone.
And now what we have here is two different grinders, and we're not actually
comparing the grinders per say, but more the workflow.
So obviously the Eureka is a 65mm flat burrs diamond cut blade.
The Niche are 63mm conical blade off
the Mazzer Kony in different styles, both really popular grinders.
The Niche has cult status so we're not here to compare,
which is a better grinder, which is a better workflow,
Effectively
with a grind on demand
You've got your beans
sitting in the hopper now you don't want to many beans up there.
Because it`s better off storing him in the container like this
that's airtight, doesn't get any light and it stores better
and you don't want too little a bean because you don't want the popcorn effect.
When the beans are low and they stop bouncing around,
you can get a variance in particle size.
So having enough coffee for this a day or two
is generally the approach that most people take.
Now, if you're not changing
between beans or blends and you just say running the same blend
every day, you wake up in the morning, you want to make coffee.
This does make sense.
Now they've got retention, but what a lot of people do
is on the single, they run like half a second
or a second just to get out whatever the retention is of that grinder.
So if the grinder has two grams each time that, so you've got two grams
of coffee coming out and you can quickly put your portafilter in
run out
that retention, get it out, and now you're ready to grind your double shot.
So it's obviously not based on weights, based on time.
We are grinding now 20 grams
in this case is spot on 20 grams even though we've lost
a tiny bit of coffee, most grinders do create a little bit of mess
now we tamped
and is ready to lock it in a portafilter and run our shot
so the advantage of having to grind on demand is you can set your single
as a purge, you double as your shot and it's just ready to go put it in grind.
Not everyone's weighing it
To check sometimes you kind of know
you're relatively close and you just want to make coffee
in the morning and do it for practical standpoint.
It's there.
Where it gets harder is if you want to now changes to a different
blend or different set of beans, you'd have to grind that out,
kind of clean it, putting the new beans grind a little bit because there's
still a bit of retention before you go completely fresh.
with a single dose grinder
things are a little different
because there is no coffee in the hopper and there's no retention.
You could use it to.
So let`s Say quickly go from espresso to filter or different blends.
So an espresso blend in a single origin blend for espresso
and you can quickly adjust the dial to really dialing in.
And you don't have to run a bit of coffee between dialing in.
If you were to do on the grind on demand,
there's always some coffee left in the chamber.
So you have to run a bit of coffee through before that adjustment takes place.
So from a dialing in, running different coffees
it is super practical to have a single dose grinder
where it becomes a little bit more work is effectively don't have a hopper.
So you're taking your dosing cup
you're getting 20 grams of coffee
and now the convenient thing is
that you are storing coffee in a better manner than having it in the hopper.
So it is a little bit fresher.
20 grams and you pour in.
So in theory everything you've poured in is now coming out
this is in a new niche with the flow control disc, which helps
in reduce popcorn.
Theoretically, you should have yep.
20 grams spot on
because everything that went in went out and now that's
when you get your portafilter and you dose that in
and you're ready to do your espresso.
So, on both machines we`ve done
20 grams the differences in the workflow.
And going back to that, it really depends on what you want to do.
If you want to play with coffee, we want to get the best result possible
out of the grinder, run it from different to say, a blend to a single origin
to a filter coffee, then a single dose really is the best way.
But you really do have to
get that coffee from either your coffee bag or a storage container.
weight in, put it in, possibly weight it out and run your espresso
From a convenient aspect, we find that most people actually want a grinder
That's not going to be as perfect, even though you're
now talking like top end of the scale,
not going to be as perfect in terms it does have a touch of retention.
But they can work in their workflow to run a single purge at that little bit,
run a double, and they can pretty much like a certain
blend of a certain thing, and that's consistently what they're going to have.
They're going to top up their hopper in the morning.
They're going to purge some people may not run a double,
run their coffee and be done with it, possibly not even way out.
And it really comes down to workflow.
And I mentioned workflow
so many times in this video because we noticed when people come in,
there's two schools of thought, people that want the best,
they want to play with coffee.
They want machines that they can control the temperature at the group head,
they can control the flow rate, possibly, they are looking pressure profiling.
And then there's those that want consistently great results.
They're not worried about that degree
They want to make coffee at home without going too deep and making it impractical.
They want to wake up
machines ready, they grind their coffee, make their coffee, they're happy.
And that's the answer, really.
So it's not about the Niche versus Eureka.
It's about which workflow is best for you.
So we've done a video comparing the top
five grind on the man grinders in which Eureka XL is one of them.
And for that, you can click here to watch that.
But I'm curious, what workflow do you prefer?
Do you prefer grind on demand or do you prefer a single dose?
Which one do you do?
And do you have one of these grinders at home, beat the Niche, which I'm presuming
quite a few people have a they're pretty much a cult status or the Eureka XL.
Let me know in the comments below
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