PP, do you store coffee in the hopper?
Is the receiver plastic? Mine is plagued with static electricity and the area that the grinder shoots out to is frosted.
Any grinders have a glass receiver?
@jammin I know I have read you suggesting 65mm burs, what is your suggestion on a particular unit?
large burrs are traditionally something that "hardcore" espresso enthusiasts focus, not so much drip coffee junkies. you will find that the very best drip grind is produced by VERY large flat burrs though. unfortunately the very best drip grinders are either very expensive or very large. i have a friend who customized a Bunn G3 by chopping the hopper to reduce size and replacing the stock, stamped
80mm burrs (which are VERY good btw) with the MUCH improved Ditting KF804 machined burrs. The Ditting burr set he installed belongs to a $2500 grinder and is pretty much the best drip burr set on the planet. He had to machine a small fitting so they could be mounted in his bunn. He also removed the step fittings in the grinder adjustment wheel and improved it for "infinite adjustment" for more control over grind.
my personal dream grinder which i hope to own someday is the Mahlkonig Tanzania. It is also known as the Ditting KR805. I'd pop for the KR804 modified if money was no object. They all sport the same 80mm machined burr set and produce the same grind. They have subtle differences in ergonomics. although they are much smaller than a bunn g1, they are still beasts in a household kitchen and VERY spendy.
My baratza Vario-W is a very nice little home unit though and I can't complain. I swapped out the stock ceramic burrs in favor of the Stainless 54mm machined burrs by Ditting. This burr set was quite revolutionary to the home user class and is still unrivaled.
Another very unique grinder Baratza came out with a few years ago is the
Preciso. Baratza designed a very
unique 40mm conical burr set and built this grinder around it. It is one of the only grinders on the market that can seriously straddle drip and espresso duty and do both VERY well. I have never used it myself, but by all reports the grind is superb. It features a dual stage, stepped grind adjustment. It makes for repeatable and consistent grind results.
The Baratza Virtuoso is a grinder I owned for a year and wished I never sold. It has a solid 40mm burr set and simple, single stage grind adjustment. In hind site, it made the best drip grind of any grinder I have personally ever used or owned. I have also read a couple really interesting studies where several, mostly commercial grinders were studied via laser partical distribution analysis. The humble Virtuoso held it's own admirable when compared to heavy weights such as the Ditting KR series in regards to producing a consistent press grind with low amounts of "dust". IMHO, press grind is the ultimate test for a drip grinder. Weird as it sounds, producing large grind particles without making any dust is the hardest thing for a coffee grinder to do.
In any case, I'd highly recommend the Virtuoso to you!. You can get a great deal on a refurb unit by buying directly from Baratza. You can
email [email protected] to see what he can do for you if one isn't directly available on the web:
http://www.baratza.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?search=action&category=RFRB
^which leads me to my next point. Baratza makes a cradle that acts as a scale and cuts the power to their grinders when the desired amount of coffee has been ground. It is called the e-sato and I see that there is currently a refurb unit for sale hint hint, wink wink!
get yourself a virtuoso and an e-sato attachment and you'll have a serious piece of kit!
