I just retrofitted my basic hand crank mill with a 10mm nut, and drove it with a drill. It’s so much faster now, but I do wonder if there’s actual properly motorized versions of what I just did.
I have a breville smart grinder pro. It’s fine, but I’d love to upgrade
I have one of these too. I concur it does a fine job.
Jokes aside the only negativity I’ve heard about these is they are not fine turnable enough at the lowest end of the scale.
I find I can get an excellent shot with good crema from most beans, but there are still a lot I feel I could go finer on to get a better result. Or just the beans suck.
I have one of these too. Actually, I have two, I picked one up second hand for decaff.
First world opulence for fifty quid!Interestingly, the second hand one goes a LOT finer than the new one.
I normally grind between 2 and 6 depending on the bean with the first, but the second one if I take it under 8, it happily chokes the machine.So I wonder if there is mileage in adjusting the burrs inside (which Sage are keen to tell you not to do!)
interesting
Having a second modified machine is a good measure.
I have no issues with mine getting choked up so it tells me I probably have more room to move on it.
I do this with my 1zpresso Q2 except I just chuck it directly into the grinder which I find helps keep the beans from jumping out of the grinder.
I do the same thing (with a different grinder) when I need a large quantity of ground pepper.
At the as you exit filthy public grinder at Costco
To be fair those are nice freaking grinders. They look like niche zeros on fucking roids
you don’t know what’s in there. could be pumpkin spice.
Generally flavored coffee is made by spraying “FLAVOR” on after grinding. I’ve seen it put on while beans once and it’s an awful muddy mess
I found a shitty little electric grinder on the side of the road in Massachusetts a decade ago. Still using it, it’s great.
Edit: it’s a Proctor-Silex with the little plastic dome so maybe a bit bougie
Obligatory James Hoffman clip.
I did that with mine. But I found that I had to feather the drill a lot to keep the grind consistent.
Eventually I just went back to buying pre ground.
Edit: actually I think I have the pro version of yours. Ended up buying a steel ring to go between the mill to stabilize the central steel pin. Got a more consistent grind after it. But felt I needed to keep the drill at a lower speed.
Eventually I just went back to buying pre ground.
This sound!! I recognise this sound! Do you hear it? It‘s the doppler effect of pitchforks being dragged over the pavement.
So you motorized a burr grinder?
Alton Brown did that with a pepper grinder.
So … hell yeah!👍
Seems like I might be a bit bougie. I have a Breville Dose Control conical burr grinder…
Shit i gotta try this with weed
Wnh not just buy an electric grinder at this point? People use hand grinders because they enjoy the process.
Because i wanted an all metal burr grinder with no plastic in it at all
Hey! You’re not OP! Everybody, this guy is a big phoney!
Good electric burr grinders are very expensive.
Not really. A Baratza Encore can be had for just over $100 and is perfectly fine for 99% of the coffee population that isn’t doing espresso.
$100 for a kitchen implement that grinds coffee and does nothing else is more than a lot of people are willing to spend. I have one that was given to me and I really like it, but I wouldn’t pay that much any day of the week. If I had an extra hand grinder, I’d honestly probably do something like this for fun, because I already have these tools for work.
Also keep in mind that now it is possible to get a far better hand grinder than the Skerton for almost the same money. The Timemore C2, the 1Zpresso Q, Kingrinder K1, P1, and P2 are the same price or only $10 to $20 more than the Skerton and all produce far better grinds.
I understand. I hate single use tools. But if I am spending fairly decent money on beans, I want a tool to properly process them. A $20/200g bag of beans is wasted on a Skerton. Other than the beans, a good grinder is the single most important tool in making good coffee.
Yeah, my partner bought me one for my birthday and it works great for my different coffee needs. My only gripe is that it’s loud as hell.
When I was choosing between entry level electric grinders, I was down to the Baratza Encore ESP and the Fellow Opus. One of the main reasons I chose the Opus is because it was so much quieter than the Encore.
And you can upgrade the burr in the Encore to the M2 found in their higher end grinders very easily. That’s what I did and it’s quality is top-notch
So are good burr hand grinders. My friend paid as much for his hand grinder as I did for my Breville electric burr grinder.
The Hario burr grinder in the OP is not on the same level. The one I had was about $40, and was so slow to grind that the drill was a gigantic upgrade. It cost me $.50 in parts to use with a drill I already had, which was great for college me. Cost was the deciding factor.
That’s cool then. I’m all for cost saving measures, especially for niche stuff like this which seems to always be overpriced.
And yet the Skerton is still a terrible grinder. Not much better than a blade grinder. Too much boulders and dust. Grind uniformity is just plain bad.
I agree. Glad I got rid of it.
I tried this with exactly this bur grinder and it melted the plastic washer in the assembly
Granted, I was using it for flax seed instead of coffee (it was my spouse’s idea), but be careful with that drill my friend
I used to grind beans at home. But I just don’t care anymore. I just run them through the grinder at Costco.
Did the same thing for a while lol, just had to keep the drill going as slow as possible.
What if you go full speed? Will it break something?
Potentially, you could also melt the grinder and mess up the grind of the coffee.
I’ve been using a LIDO 2 for a few years, but am considering the move to 1zpresso…
Other than possibly being easier to hold due to the smaller size of the 1zpresso, I wouldn’t expect much difference in grind quality between the Lido 2 and even the best 1zpresso
I can sift out about 10% fines with a typical Lido grind. Not inherently a bad thing, but I’m intrigued by the almost-zero-fines of the 1zpresso ZP6. A friend of mine has one, and said he did the same thing – was sifting daily with his other grinder, but decided to stop throwing away 10% of his coffee. :) Don’t get me wrong, the Lido is great and has served me well, and I wouldn’t even get rid of it. It’s just a different thing, going more unimodal.
