She's on coffee training wheels.
after 5 years into coffee and 2 years into roasting, time to get deeper into the rabbit hole
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This big boy is on his way to me. Also 19kg of green bean came to my door yesterday.
Some of my friends and colleagues are getting a free coffee bag
Wait until you see it open the wings (the one in white is mine being tested in the factory, wanted to get the stainless steel version but it is $130 more expensive so I cheap out)
Ironically, I struggle to find a decent enough decaf. To the extent that I'd rather drink chicory. At least the taste is different enough that it doesn't trigger "the taste is wrong" reflex for me.
Not desktop. My current one is (although you should NOT roast on a desktop (Kaffelogic Nano7)). This one is a beast in comparison and has max capacity of 1.2kg.Ahh I see its a desktop roaster, in your first pic it looked massive, good luck with it - I think it needs a couple of googly eyes stuck on the front
Up till now, what roaster have you been using?after 5 years into coffee and 2 years into roasting, time to get deeper into the rabbit hole
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This big boy is on his way to me. Also 19kg of green bean came to my door yesterday.
Some of my friends and colleagues are getting a free coffee bag
KaffeLogic Nano 7. I like it a lot but the capacity is too small
Niche's workflow is almost unbeatable. I don't know what you prefer, but if I weren't an ultralight partisan I'd probably still use my NZ.So after a lot of contemplation, I'm definitely leaning toward a new grinder to replace the DF83V.
The DF83V has been a solid grinder, working well while I was using it. My main complaint is that the flat burrs are just too finicky for the type of espresso I enjoy. Moreover, I never really found consistency going from shot to shot. Something always changed and I might get three completely different shots with only one making my somewhat happy. I even went to the extent of getting a leveling tamper to take tamp variation out of the conversation. Now the few times I opened it up to run filter coffee, the results were quite excellent.
Right now I am leaning heavily toward a Niche Zero.
On the table were the Niche, Lagom Casa 65 and the Varia VS6.
I do like the overall vibe of the Option O Lagom Casa 65, however I get hung up on the almost routine comment that it tends toward a "cleaner" shot and is designed more to focus on lighter roasts.
On the flip side, I know the Niche uses the Mazzer Kony Burrs which are a little more familiar to me and I trust to deliver the type of espresso I really want to be drinking.
But then I keep coming up on the Varia VS6 machine. While it comes with a stock flat burr, the burrs are interchangeable and I can actually install one of their conical burr sets. Of these the standard Stainless Burr seemingly matches what I would expect from the Mazzer burrs used in the Niche (lower acidity, higher body and medium cleanliness).
Of course, there is one other option which is to change my DF83V Burrs from their stock burrs and try again with Mazzer 83mm flat burrs.
Anybody out there have any thoughts you would care to share?
I’m in my happy place when my spro tastes like puréed brownies. Nothing particularly against blueberry and jasmine notes, but my espresso journey was started on city plus to full city roast levels. I like thick textured full bodied shots with a fudgy aftertaste that lingers. My usual recipe in 20g in, 14g out in 30 sec.
Blind ABX or go home, sir!
So after a lot of contemplation, I'm definitely leaning toward a new grinder to replace the DF83V.
The DF83V has been a solid grinder, working well while I was using it. My main complaint is that the flat burrs are just too finicky for the type of espresso I enjoy. Moreover, I never really found consistency going from shot to shot. Something always changed and I might get three completely different shots with only one making my somewhat happy. I even went to the extent of getting a leveling tamper to take tamp variation out of the conversation. Now the few times I opened it up to run filter coffee, the results were quite excellent.
Right now I am leaning heavily toward a Niche Zero.
On the table were the Niche, Lagom Casa 65 and the Varia VS6.
I do like the overall vibe of the Option O Lagom Casa 65, however I get hung up on the almost routine comment that it tends toward a "cleaner" shot and is designed more to focus on lighter roasts.
On the flip side, I know the Niche uses the Mazzer Kony Burrs which are a little more familiar to me and I trust to deliver the type of espresso I really want to be drinking.
But then I keep coming up on the Varia VS6 machine. While it comes with a stock flat burr, the burrs are interchangeable and I can actually install one of their conical burr sets. Of these the standard Stainless Burr seemingly matches what I would expect from the Mazzer burrs used in the Niche (lower acidity, higher body and medium cleanliness).
Of course, there is one other option which is to change my DF83V Burrs from their stock burrs and try again with Mazzer 83mm flat burrs.
Anybody out there have any thoughts you would care to share?
