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  • I've got to say, I've only had the Wilfa Svart for 5 days but it's been amazing.

    I always felt my coffee at home was pretty decent, but I knew it could be a lot better. The big change is that consistency, before I felt like I'd get excellent coffee every now and again but the rest of the time it was decent. Fair enough it's only been 5 days, but each day the coffee has tasted almost exactly the same and it's been excellent.

    I'm grinding much finer than I could before and I feel like I'm already at a point where I can actually start playing around with varying weight and fine adjustments on the grind size.

    It's made me very excited.

  • Nice! Yeah getting a good grinder is probably the best thing you can do to increase the quality of the coffee you make (IMO). It may not be as fancy & shiny as a new espresso machine but I'd say a damn sight more important.

  • Nice! Yeah getting a good grinder is probably the best thing you can do to increase the quality of the coffee you make (IMO). It may not be as fancy & shiny as a new espresso machine but I'd say a damn sight more important.

    This is is very true but it's one of those things where no matter how many times somebody with good coffee knowledge says it, you don't really realise how right they are until you notice it for yourself.

  • I thought the Krups I'm selling above wasn't a bad grinder, people on here often talked about it being a good value for money entry level burr grinder for non-espresso coffee drinks. Not knowing any better I've been using that for a number of years, assuming the inconsistency in my coffee drink was because I was using a French Press, even though I've been using the "Hoffmann method" for some time.

    Over lockdown and during my long stretch of unemployment I started watching a lot more of his videos and other coffee videos on youtube and I realised that actually what I was getting out of that grinder was not as consistent as I thought and was nowhere near as fine as he was suggesting to grind for FP and Aeropress.

    It wasn't really a problem that I absolutely needed solving but I was intrigued, how much better would my coffee taste if I did everything else the same, but just ground finer and more consistently?

    £120 the grinder cost, it's hard to put a value on the level of enjoyment increase, but I'd say I'm now enjoying my cup of coffee as much as if I'd bought a good single origin pour over in a good coffee shop. At £4-5 a pop in London, after 30 coffees I think I'll have got my money's worth (if you factor in I was paying for everything else anyway).

    Another way of looking at it is if this lasts 5 years, then it will cost 6.5p/day. I am definitely getting 6.5p worth of extra enjoyment out of the coffee I drink every day.

    Enough of my musings.

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