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The target audience for this hack are people who carefully weigh their beans (and then put them into the empty hopper for grinding) each time they make coffee.
by tomstuart 3y ago
The target audience for this hack are people who carefully weigh their beans (and then put them into the empty hopper for grinding) each time they make coffee.
- sva_ 3y agoDamn, literal bean counters.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoBusted. My scale absolutely has a units mode that is very fun and completely caters to my precision fetish. Or at least I thought it did until I considered bean-weight variability...
- mimischi 3y agoIt’s infuriating when you change brands. Built up a feel for how much a bean weighs and how many are needed to go from 17.9 to 18.0g? Yeah, that other bean requires five beans, and not just one.
- cjr 3y agoOr removing the right sized bean to go from 18.1g to 18g
- pseudosaid 3y agoof course factoring in the age and roast too
- LesZedCB 3y agothere are even more niche products, literally called bean counters which dose whole beans to a certain weight. believe it or not they are well over $100. the deep end of coffee is both insane and expensive
- demondemidi 3y agoI’m that target audience. It’s called single dosing. I weigh before and after because the difference depends on the quality of the grinder. Retention is the enemy of single dosing. The Niche grinder is one of the best (I’ve been through 4 grinders.) I have had mixed luck with spritzing. As the article says it only benefits beans with lower moisture but even large distributor beans vary between roasts. It takes a few shots to dial in every new batches.
- glitchcrab 3y agoI've also been very pleased with my gev 4 DF64; it was a tossup between that and the Niche Zero at the time. The retention is so small I can't even measure it.
- pseudosaid 3y agothe varia has been responding to a spritz and shake with beans before going in the hopper. i stopped measuring output its that good. Sometimes a bean or two can get stuck in the hopper.