Hi, I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
And today we have the two latest grinders from both Switzerland and
Italy to enter the home market Denmark, Mahlkönig X54, and the Eureka XL, both
big brand names, both world known.
And both similar on paper, let's look into it and see what makes them different
on paper.
These two machines are actually quite similar apart from the obvious
whether Eureka is a bit smaller.
The output that numeric data is similar, but they've taken different approaches.
Eureka tried to build the machine.
That's physically small, quiet, low retention, and fast.
When Mahlkönig was really focused on particle size distribution
and trying to get the higher TDS.
Coffee.
So the way they went about this was effectively speed and blade size.
When Eureka went for the 65mm blade and a bigger motor Mahlkönig went
forth 54mm blade at a slower RPM.
That's saying that Mahlkönig's doing about a gram per second.
While you per second something about three grams per second on espresso.
Now that will vary depending on your roast profile of hardness
of your bean size of your beans.
And grind adjustment, but they're a good indication of speed effective day.
The Eureka is three times faster, but the result is measured basically in the
machine and the particle size consistency.
And when we looked at it, the more Mahlkönig was a little bit more consistent.
Then the other thing that both of these grinders claim is to be quite quiet.
With the Eureka claiming 60 decibels and the Mahlkönig 70, although
when we measured it and we'll show you later, we're getting on the high
seventies, early eighties, depending on where we're measuring it, I'm the
front or the rear of the machine.
So I guess it depends on the position of the machine in your kitchen or
office set up in terms of hoppers.
They're both gone very similar 500 grams versus 300 grams.
And in terms of dialing in the machine, we've got, the knob kind of
adjustment where it's step less infinite.
Grind adjustments and quite easy, obviously to go core.
So the machine doesn't have to be running to go find it.
You'd be better off running the machine, not to jam in those blades
in terms of fork or portafilter support, both will hold the port
a filter for hands-free operation.
And in terms of dialing in the time we found that Eureka a little bit easier
with the menu being like a single double.
Just get up and down in time.
If you want it to like lock that menu, you could lock it.
Or if you wanted to grind the man, you could also do it that way.
Super intuitive, super easy on the Mahlkönig.
He was a little bit more work where you basically have to hold in the
button, let it flash and go through each time adjustment when you're done.
Hold it down again.
And you're set.
For that program, not hard to do, but Eureka didn't win in that case.
Now the ultimate test is always in the cup and role-playing playing
with these machines earlier.
And in that, in reality, they all came very similar, but the Mahlkönig
was a little bit more consistent in terms of grinding our pool.
We had the laptop out and both of them came into embarrass of
0.2 of a gram shot after shot.
We were aiming for 20 grams and we were getting between 19.9 and 20.1.
I think there's a bit of B roll showing that earlier, but, um,
yeah, both actually very similar.
So they've really gone head to head Switzerland versus Italy.
One thing we did like about the Eureka was a physical, smaller footprint.
It really does make a difference in a tight environment when the Mahlkönig
does not by much, but take up a bit more room in saying that it does have
more presence, which can be nice on the Eureka XL compared to that the smaller
mingon, the numbers are actually on the front, which makes it easier to see.
And on the mechanic, you've also got the numbers in the front.
Now the numbers don't mean much.
But it gives you a really indication of how much you moved, if you
are trying to get really hone in on that grind adjustment.
So let's get into it.
And like, let's look at the decibels.
Let's look at the grind output.
Let's look at how easy they are to adjust in practice.
One big factor we always get asked is how loud are these grinders?
And we in the sand, people are used to grind is in the cafe
environment, which are quite loud.
And for home environment, it's going to wake up the kids, the neighbors, whatever.
Honestly, if your neighbors are going to wake up, maybe you need a thicker wall.
But apart from that, let's look into it and measure one by one.
What the decibel rating is on each one.
Now we know that Eureka say 60 and Mahlkönig say 70.
Let's look at the decibel and you'll notice that the decibels vary
from the front to the rear a bit.
So.
I've got the decimal made her up and if we start grinding, we'll see what it does.
So peeking out around the machine, get quite close to the
machine, the high seventies.
And now in reality, you're standing a bit further than what we are registering.
And if you were further away, that sound does drop quite dramatically.
So on the Mahlkönig, we were getting high seventies.
So not chronic claims, 70.
And I guess that's probably about right, depending on how
far away they're measuring it.
And.
The fact that they're probably not using an iPhone decibel meter, they're
probably using something a little bit more sophisticated Eureka grinder.
Now let's measure this one and see what it comes out.
As, as this grind is a lot faster, the measurements going
to be over a smaller timeframe.
So, as you can see on Eureka, we're kind of measuring the high eighties.
And basically that means that the Mahlkönig high 70th,
Eureka, high eighties, both higher than what the factory is, claim
yet quite low for a coffee grinder in the market in saying that.
We're using an iPhone.
I'm pretty sure there's better recording devices out there, but this is more,
just a comparison between the two and to show that they are quite quiet.
Another simple test is a dosing consistency test, like between shots.
How many grants are you getting out consistently?
So let's take a look now, now at what these machines do over three
shots earlier, we did it over 20 and logged it on a spreadsheet.
And we actually know what the variance is, but let's look on
camera and what it's going to do.
the first one came in at 21 even.
Well, 21, even now let's go for shot.
Number two.
Okay.
We've got the 21.1 21.
What's the scout want to do 21.1.
So we've got 0.1 grams variants, which is what we saw earlier.
We actually saw actually up to a 0.2 or for granting variants in our 20 shops,
but let's see what this third one does.
And compare
and we've got once again.
21 grams.
So the variance between the three shots was 0.1 of a gram, which
is very neat for a home grinder.
So we had 21 gram, 21.1, but he actually was like, kind of tossing
between it and it, third one was back to 21, super consistent.
We actually found slightly bigger variants over 20 of them.
But over these three, it was like almost spot on.
Perfect.
Now let's so could the Eureka too, just to confirm the Portafilters tarred at zero.
so we've got 20.1 grams.
Once again, this can woo the Scouts off let's uh
once again, spot on 20.1 grams.
And this time round 20.5 grams.
So this one was thrown out to slightly.
Let's do a fourth one just to make sure that was actually a bigger gap than
what we did over the 20 in testing.
I'm back too.
20.1 spot on.
So we had three at 20.1.
We had one that was at 20.5.
Not sure what happened there, but.
At showing it's really consistent and same with a Mahlkönig.
So when we did our test 20 on each one, we actually found a various
or 0.2 grams identical on each one.
But now in the three runs, what we did on was a variance
of 0.1 on the Mahlkönig.
And no variants on the Eureka, except for that one shot that was wrong.
There might've been some coffee left in the Portafilter
between I'm knocking it out.
And I didn't may have not noticed it cause it was a bit bigger number than
usual, but yeah, so the grinders are very similar in terms of their dose output.
Now we've tested sound.
We've tested dose.
We can look at spade, although we already know what the spade AR is.
So at the moment for 20 grams, we're looking at 18.8 on the X
54, and we're looking at 6.8 on the Eureka for home environment
in which speed is and everything.
It probably doesn't matter so much in a cafe environment is crucial.
You need to be pumping out those shots.
The reason why there's those a variance in speed is, uh, taken a different
approach to grinding where my clinic wants to go to a softer grind.
Really get that particle size distribution, get that higher TDS
Eureka one in a balance with between it all.
So two different approaches, 65mm blades versus 54mm, higher RPM, but
effectively the result is quite similar.
So it really depends up to you.
And what you're looking for out of a grinder, the last thing is.
How easy are they to adjust how eager they are to dial in both from a grinder
perspective and a digital perspective.
So let's look at each one and see which one is best.
Now.
Let's look at operating these machines on a daily basis.
How do you turn them on feel the hopper shut off the hopper
adjust, dial in, et cetera.
Both have very simple power switch on the rear for the X54 power
switch on the side for the Eureka XL.
The hoppers, the hoppers, obviously you fill them up and both have cutoffs
to shut down the hop and removing in case you want to run out any grinds and
change your beans, both have removable portafilter supports in Eureka's case, you
just move it up up and then pull it out.
And you do that to use your catchy.
If you want to say, fulfill to coffee or you're grinding into a dosing cup
into your port, a filter, obviously you guys back in easily on the Mahlkönig
to remove the portafilter support.
You got a little button here on the side, on this side.
The poor feels the support comes out and you can put in the
support for you feels to coffee.
So now you can run into a dosing cup like this, whereas for filter or
dosing cup for your espresso, once again, just pops out and in goes your.
Water filter support.
Now we did find it easier to do with turned off because you do sometimes
activate the micro switch and it grinds onto your hand in terms of dialing
in on both machines, we actually found that Eureka slightly easier,
where you go single or double, or you hit them both for grind on the
man on the double, or you just go up and down in the time and you're set.
You want to lock that.
So be don't change at time by accident.
Hit the plus and minus same time.
And it's now locked in unlock a C it's double single grind on the man.
Super easy to operate.
Super user-friendly on the Mahlkönig
You've got four pre adjust settings.
So 1, 2, 3, 4.
Or the grind on demand and to change the time is, is holding
that switch nigga up and down.
So if we were to go up, it would just move into it 20 seconds.
If we keep going up, we'll go 21 seconds.
When you're ready, just hold it in.
And you've locked that in.
So you've got four different settings.
Pretty much you could run the first two, just say for espresso in the
last year for filter coffee and remember what dial number you're just,
and you can shut off, not the most practical to go between espressos.
And if you are looking at a filter only grinder, you probably look like a
fellow ode instead of these grinders.
But if you want to have a grinder that does both, you don't have
room in the kitchen for two, then you'd look at something like this.
So you've got the option to do both, but effectively.
I presume most people would be running these as espresso grinders.
Now, in terms of the cleaning aspect, we actually found that with the Mahlkönig
there was.
Less spray of coffee, that it was basically kept cleaner
through the operation.
Everything landed in a Portafilter with your regular was a little bit more
of a mess, but you do have a grounds catcher,a mat on the Eureka, and
you have a little tray on the Mahlkönig in terms of cleaning the blades.
You'd really want to shut off the hopper.
Grind.
Well whatever's in there.
And then instead of using coffee beans, using something like the grind,
um, grind, the cleaner or grind, the burn cleaner was effect lovely.
That almost looked like beans and you run them through cleanse
all the residue from the blades.
And then you put in one to two shots for seasoning.
After that simple to clean, both of them come with a sort of brush
that you can clean around it.
But effectively, there's not much maintenance in these grinders.
If you do read the manuals, they say to clean them once a week, depending on
usage, probably a little bit of overkill.
I think they'd do that more this to avoid any long-term issues.
Well, we just seem to run them without any difficulties.
And that's kind of the overview to operating these grinders.
Now, looking through, we've looked at both grinders, very similar on
paper, slightly different to operate.
You've got them aquatic, which is a bit slower.
Call it one gram per second with Eureka.
That's a bit faster at around.
Three grams per second, similar hopper capacity than Mahlkönig came
in slightly lower on noise, little bit higher than what they claimed,
but we've got mid 70 decibels when we've got mid 80 decibels on Eureka.
In terms of usability, both simple to adjust.
I did find the Eureka is a lot quicker to dial in and then
adjust in the Mahlkönig.
In terms of performance, the coffees did seem a little bit more consistent
out of the X54, but in terms of dosing consistency, the above spot on, on the
video, the Eureka nail that and the Mahlkönig was 0.1 grand variance
in our testing earlier over 20 coffees, it was a point to various on both.
So I actually don't know which one I would choose once.
Got a smaller footprint once got a slightly better espresso.
They're both in the same price point and they both looked good, easy to operate.
So it really comes down to personal preference.
There's no right or wrong.
And I do feel whichever one you bought, you're going to be happy at home.
Your espressos are going to be spot on.
And you're going to be happy.
So really is up to you guys.
I'm curious.
What do you guys think is a better grinder?
Which one do you have?
Which one do you want?
Leave a comment below and let me have a look at what is your thoughts out there?
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I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.