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Cheers man, I’d been looking at the Wilfa as it fits the bill budget/function wise.
Does anyone in here use one for espresso primarily?
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If it's the Svart, I'm fairly sure that's marketed as filter only, so will likely not go fine enough for espresso.
The Sette is definitely quite pricey so I can understand your reservations (I was in the same boat a year ago!). Not sure about the Hario, but my Porlex + drill combo was fine for home espresso for the year or so I used it (with the aforementioned caveat of coarseness steps being too big so needed to be offset by adjusting the dose also). I also had a Rhino hand grinder but didn't get on that well with using it for espresso, couldn't get it fine enough.
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I've got an iberital mc2 I picked up off here for cheap - they come up every so often, but even new they are about £120
It looks the part and grinds well enough and will go as fine as anyone could need.
It is however very agricultural. Its loud and rattly. Its also messy, but I bought a little metal cup to grind into which solved that.
Its also impossible to adjust between espresso and filter and back again. Its about 30 winds of the adjuster, so dialing it in at either end of the scale is not doable. I have my old dualit grinder set up for filter.
If you can get a used one you'd be hard pressed to do better for the money.
mmccarthy
Scrabble
Start with the grinder. It's the most important thing for espresso. Electric burr grinder. Plenty of recommendations back up the thread.
See here: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15219078/