Hi.
I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
And today we're looking at which is the best Eureka home grinder
for you.
When you first look at the Eureka range, it can look confusing.
There's five models. They vary in price.
And what's the difference between them?
But when you start looking into it, it is quite simple.
You've got the Eureka Mignon Manuale
The Eureka Mignon Silenzio, the Eureka Mignon Specialita
Eureka Mignon XL and Eureka Mignon Single dose.
Now the Manuale is a 50 mm blade grinder.
When the next two the Silencio And Specialita 55mm.
And when you look at these which are part of the Oro range,
the XL and the Single Dose is 65 mm blades.
And now as the blades go up in size, you do get more consistent in
espresso grinding and a faster grind.
What also changes as you go from one
side of the spectrum to the other side,
excluding the Single Dose, is your workflow.
When the Manuale you've got to hold your portafilter while you grind
and it's grinding while you're activating that switch
on the next three being the Silenzio, Specialita and XL it's grinding
based on time and specifically on the Specialita and the XL.
Not only is it grinding based on time,
but you've got a digital display to dial in that time. On the Silencio.
You've got a little knob down here, which you can dial in,
but it's not as accurate as just say, hitting single double
up them down with 1/10 of a second being able to grind on demand.
If you press those or being able to lock the screen above there,
the user interface on the Eureka's really is top of their game.
One thing they do or have in common is the way you adjust.
You grind from fine to coarse, using the worm drive knobs
as you turn and they are stepless and you can really adjust to the the empty degree
So you really can get that perfect grind.
And all of these grinders go from the espresso all the way
up to filter aeropress mocha pot and cold brew.
They all have, with the exception of the single dose, the same 300
gram hopper, which means you're probably going to use a 250 gram to load it up.
In saying that I like to load them up only up to the line here.
So you've got enough coffee in there to push it down and stop the popcorning
and not too much coffee that's sitting that oxidized.
If you're going to store 250 grams of coffee in the hopper,
you're better off storing it in a coffee storage container,
which kind of stops the light and the oxygen.
to going in
Looking back at these grinders.
Once again, I mentioned that on the Manuale
You have to hold the portafilter in
when on the next one's up, they do hold by themself.
So on these three, it's a hands free operation.
You put your portafilter in and it will grind based on time.
Also, these three allow you to stop and collapse
the grind halfway through so you can grind halfway.
Give it a tap, settle and keep grinding.
One thing to note is once you get past the Manuale
the rest of the range have what Eureka called the silent technology.
They've really gone in and put rubber on the motor mounts rubber around the the hopper
rubber everywhere to really bring it down too on these grinders, 60 decibels,
which is very low for grinding grinding out.
And on the XL here, they've even including rubber
across the portafilter support to try and just get rid of almost all the sounds.
Of course there is noise, but it is noticeable how much quieter they get
when you go from the Manuale to the Silenzio, Specialita to XL and so forth.
Now, right at the end here, the XL and the Single Dose
are actually the same grinder, same motor, same blades.
What changes is your workflow?
Where , with the XL you grinding based on time?
You'd only have coffee in here and you're grinding over a single
or double based on time with the SIngle Dose,
you grinding on demand, just whatever you put in.
So you're putting in to say 20 grams of coffee in here,
closing the chute, loading it in and grinding and you're grinding.
As you finish grinding, you're pressing the below to get any ground out.
And there's nothing, no beans, nothing left in that grinder.
Where that really helps out is if you're using multiple beans,
blends and a Single Oring You want to get between coffee.
When there's no coffee in there, you can really adjust it
and even go from espresso to filter whatever it might be.
And all the coffee is fresh.
When on these other grinders there's
always going to be an amount of coffee in there. This called retention.
And one way to compensate for that is to grind out a small amount just say
a gram of coffee or two and chuck it out and then grind this second coffee.
You'd be doing this when you're doing at home
coffee, say a coffee in the morning in the lunch or coffee today and tomorrow.
It's good to grind out just a gram or two in between.
If you're doing consistent coffee, then you just
grind out because that coffee will be fresh.
There won't be really much time
for it to be oxidizing between now all grinders except for single.
This will have a small element
of retention, but effectively now which grind it is for you.
They do vary in price and it as the price goes up.
So the features, the bigger blades, they get quieter, they get faster,
they get easier to use.
Normally if you're buying something like
Gaggia Classic, Rancilio Silvia, you're more than likely going to buy Manuale
kind of fits along the price point
and having a grinder is a hundred times better than using pre ground coffee.
So having a grinder
Changes everything once you get past there.
once you get past there.
What? You want to be quiet?
You might be moving up to a Silenzio.
but the most common way we sell probably is this one here.
The Specialita is at that price point where you're
really gone quieter and the work for has really improved.
And although there is improvements going out to a 65 mm bigger Motors in that
it becomes somewhat diminishing returns for someone call it set by
Apartamento into an isometric ECM Provtec or whatever it might be
at that kind of hate exchange, vibrating pump level will probably be buying,
Specialita
once you start looking at rotary pump machines, twin boilers
machines, machines really up there, you really are looking at these.
At the end of the day, the better the grinder, the better the overall result.
And the common thing to do is if you're working in the budget
by the best grinder, you can add in with the left over by the coffee
machine because you're going to get better bang for buck overall.
So that's a quick run on this line up.
All these grinders have the same footprint bar, the single dose.
They're all small, they're all made in Italy.
And Eureka has been around for over 100 years.
So they really are awesome grinders and we find Eureka now in the home
market to be leading the way when once upon a time used to be the Mazzer
If you have any questions on the grinders?
Hit me up in the comments below.
If you have one of these grinders, I'd love to know your thoughts.
Are you happy with it? Which one did you choose?
Let me know.
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