Great price, and it includes delivery @ Costco (Membership Required). Machine has a lot of positive reviews online.
Description from the site:
Sunbeam's Cafe Series precision grinder is a conical burr grinder with a high performance belt driven system to separate motor heat from the beans. It has a metal cradle and static reduction chute, 30 grind settings with easy recalibration, and a 450 gram hopper.
I don’t need a fancy grinder like this, but I understand the need for them for those that like a good coffee, so if anyone needs to get rid of the old grinder because they replace it with this one and they live in Canberra I will happily take it off your hands for you.
You call this fancy, while I just spent $1200 on a coffee grinder I call mid-range. My wallet wishes I thought like you.
Niche Zero?
OE Pharos is high end enough for me.
Bingo. Upgrading from a Breville Smart Grinder Pro, which for the price, has served me very well for 5 years.
I googled, and Niche Zero is just another conical burr.
More dollars than cents?
@bargaino: *63mm conical burrs found in a commercial Mazzer grinder(Kony) that retails at $2k. The burrs sold alone cost more than this Sunbeam.
Let me start by saying there is no perfect grinder; you have to compromise somewhere. The Niche is perhaps the first device to take professional-grade parts and put them in a package where it compromises in such a way that is ideal for coffee enthusiasts at home.
So, yes, while flat burrs supposedly produce a more uniform grind, they do so at the expense of energy, heat and grind retention. Therefore, if you grind multiple varieties of coffee in a day, or only pull a few shots every day, that grind retention is a big issue as you're constantly getting stale coffee in your supposedly fresh grinds. The Niche under-cranks its motor and runs the burrs slower, quieter, cooler, thus getting good (not flat-burr great) uniformity with almost zero retained grinds. This is arguably going to result in a better cup than a flat burr grinder that runs at cafe speeds and retains 2-3g per shot of the previous grind.
Just spent $600 on mine for a lower end mid-range.
The difference between my old sunbeam is insane.
at the risk of sounding like a coffee noob, if your grinder is $1200, how much is your machine? (My machine cost $300…) (Which is 20x the amount of my last machine that I got at a garage sale.
You're better off waiting for the Breville to go down to below $200. It's got twice as many grind settings and how far more functionality. The ability to set the grind time to 0.1 gaps of a second is really useful plus you get a single and double shot memory function, which is effectively just a setting for you and someone else who has different grind times.
like it currently is at HN? or is that a different model?
https://www.harveynorman.com.au/breville-the-smart-grinder-p…
Yep, you're much better off with this. You can sometimes get it for around $170 on ebay but at $199 it's great.
better to spend the money on a set of scales from aliexpress - for less than $15 they are accurate to .01 of a gram and much more accurate than timing.
not a fan of sunbeam. i had a grinder that kept getting clogged and made a mess everywhere so i returned it.
While it's not bad, some people struggle with the inconsistent dosage. At least with the smart grinder pro, you can set the timing for single and double shots.
This item is not sold in Costco stores
Its an online order item only
high performance belt driven system to separate motor heat from the beans
hehe how much marketing bullshit can they come up with, the older sunbeam em0480 has a plastic reduction gearbox that doesn't transfer any heat, rather it makes a hell of a lot of noise vs belt.
I wonder if this is cheaper in store? I've noticed a lot of items on the online store just have the delivery fee embedded in the purchase price (e.g. a Puma hoodie I bought was $16 more expensive online than in store)