As an exhibitor at the Sydney Café and Coffee Show recently, we worked closely with Sanremo, the supplier of coffee machines for the event. We went to their warehouse to train on their machines, and we saw some amazing equipment...
The image headlining this blog post is of the burrs which are at the heart of the Sanremo X-One... a $10,000 grinder! The burrs themselves cost a four figure sum...
The grinder looked amazing... massive, almost post-modern... you'd have to have an enormous kitchen if you wanted to add this to your domestic coffee set up.
The X-One allows for precise grinding by having multiple hoppers, a pre-prepared grinding chamber where beans are weighed prior to grinding, low retention, huge 98 mm flat burrs. All of the elements which I believe are vital for a great coffee grinder are here in spades: knowing what weight of coffee will be deposited in your portafilter basket, great grinding burrs, low retention.
And it struck me that our customers can get almost all of these features (albeit with a little less automation and a little more work) at less than 5% of the cost... by using a Turin DF54 single dosing grinder. The Turin allows you to single dose, weighing coffee before grinding and because there is low retention you know the amount of coffee that will end up in your portafilter and it has excellent flat burrs (albeit quite a bit smaller at 54 mm than the massive 98 mm flat burrs on the X-One).
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