so today I'm gonna review the crew
coffee sifter now I've used this before
few of you asked me to review it having
seen it in some of the videos I've done
where I compare two different grinders
and the kind of quality of grind coming
from them and so today we're gonna dive
into this and tell you what I think Cruz
sent me the nicest set that they offer
which is very kind of them you get 12
different sized sips to go inside this
thing and this thing has three trays
that holds two different sieve sizes
here's the theory if you have a broad
range of particle sizes when you brew a
cup of coffee that's bad because the
very fine pieces will give up their
flavour very quickly and begin to over
extract and add quite a lot of
bitterness and then the very large
pieces won't extract properly and
they'll end up making the cup a little
bit sour obviously anything in the
middle should brew ideally pretty
normally all you'll get is some tasty
coffee some bitter coffee and some sour
coffee all in one cup that's what I do
and so here you're supposed to add in
two sips one to screen out the largest
size and one to screen out the finest
size now because different brew methods
require different grain sizes that's why
you've got a bunch of different sips now
one quick thing I actually think it's a
little bit simplistic to talk about
coffee as if it's two dimensional
particle sizes are three dimensional
it's really about surface area as much
as it's about particle size you can have
a perfectly round particle and you can
have a long skinny particle that in
theory would fit through the same sieve
in addition I think it's also a little
bit complicated to say all Fine's are
bad or should be avoided and they don't
contribute positive things to cups of
coffee but when we dive into this it's
really about who are you and what do you
need from this now they do a set that
starts at $50 with just two sips and
then they runs all the way up to about a
hundred
thirty dollars for this set if you're
using a pretty cheap grinder be that a
pretty cheap electric grinder be it a
blade grinder like a whirly blade
grinder if you're using a cheap hand
grinder then to be honest this probably
isn't a good solution for you in truth
you're better spending $130 on a better
coffee grinder putting coffee from a
cheap hand grinder into this will mean
that you screen out quite a lot of
particles and it means you have to put
in a lot of ground coffee to get enough
of the good stuff out to get a brew it
can nearly double the cost of the coffee
you are using due to the amount that
you're throwing away and so for my money
not a great investment
spend more on your grinder now things
change a little bit when you get to the
mid-range to the high-end grinders to
get a traditional set of sieves most
people use ones made by a company called
Endicott now a single sim from Endicott
may be between 50 to 100 dollars
secondhand on eBay they are expensive so
a full set of sips like this could run
in excess of a thousand dollars so in
comparison 130 dollars is incredibly
cheap if you want to start messing
around with particle size this is a
pretty great way to go I used it at home
for a little while and then eventually I
brought it in to work because it's
square-mile it's much more interesting
as a experimental area for us to play
around with different stuff but for me
from my day to day with a decent grinder
a decent Brewer I didn't feel there was
a significant bump in quality the
yielded adding time work and additional
cost through wastage to my morning cup
of coffee
if I was competing in a bursty
competition what I want to experiment
with this I might their recommendation
for pour over coffee is to use a 400
micron and a 900 micron sieve for me
that actually gives a pretty wide range
of particle sizes some will be literally
twice the size of others and so while it
might be a good way for me to be
communicating with a friend about how
I'm brewing and
grinds has amusing it's far from perfect
for that however if you're a coffee
professional and you want to start
experimenting with sitting with
different grain sizes with the effect of
uniformity on brewing this is a much
much much cheaper option than going down
the route of scientific sieves
that isn't to say that this thing is
perfect there are a couple of things
about this that frustrate me a little
bit two main things one the way that
this fits together it just feels a
little bit loose and it slips apart
quite easily secondly and probably my
biggest frustration is that to change a
sieve is a little bit fussy as work goes
each of the sieves have a little rubber
gasket on them that hold them in place
but when you're changing a sieve it can
be quite frustrating to pop in all three
sides of that triangle and get them
locked in properly and it's easy
actually to have them be unlocked by a
mistake and obviously any coffee can
just sneak around the side of that so I
wish that it was a little bit easier to
change the filters sometimes I have a
little bit of frustration there some
sizes are easier than others which is
coming down to the flexibility of the
mesh itself I haven't been able to test
the validity of the sizings now I don't
have a set of sips here anymore to
compare this to to see if it screens out
the same amount of 300 micron particles
as an Endicott test sip would do however
I do think it's pretty useful it's
pretty easy to use I think it's pretty
inexpensive and I think that if you want
to start exploring coffee a little bit
more this is for you
if you want to make your cup of coffee a
little bit better in the mornings I'd
probably just invest in a better grinder
means less wastage it means less work
less time between you waking up and the
first coffee
there so overall interesting
professionally but I'm not sure I'd
recommend it for the average home user I
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