/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20498091
Its a blendy high fines italian espresso burr in a slick little single dosing build. Beans go in, grinds come out, lid to keep any popcorning off your counter. If you're brewing medium+ roasts into milk its not a bad option. High body, high texture shots to cut through milk. If you're brewing lighter roast straight espresso or mainly filter I'd consider something else.

>>20437610
w2c that mug
>>20437915
the fuck is black chocolate

>>20417046
Big flats can definitely change the presentation. Unmuddy some flavors.

>>20389274
Yes and yes. You could get by with a $1-200 hand grinder, but if your budget is $1500 I'd be looking at fitting the nicest grinder into what you're able to work with. Your own personal tastes are going to heavily factor into what grinders you should be looking at.
>the guy who made this chart doesn't particularly like it, but its an attempt to broadly categorize grinders.

>>20067817
>there must be a reason why it is 300 USD, but still, how much of it is bullshit?
You're paying for fit and finish on the more "premium" hand grinders. Fit and finish in this case just happens to be alignment and how well the burrs are cut and polished, which matter in the cup. Kingrinder k6 might be a bigger clone of the comandante burr, but the comandante burrs are way sharper.
https://youtu.be/BAbbmzyRC3s
>Kingrinder K4 and K6
K4 is a clone of an italian espresso burrset. 6 big "prebreakers" and a short amount of finishing teeth. They deliberately produce more fines for high body high texture traditional italian espresso. That super thick crema you see on top of straight shots? Microfines trapped in co2. Higher body/"cloudiness" in filter coffee? Microfines that have made their way through the paper into your cup. K6/Comandante burrs on the other hand are tuned a little differently. They have an extra set of "prebreakers" and the finishing teeth start way higher up. Gives the coffee a slower feed rate and a longer grinding path to even out so you get a bit less fines. Lower bodied, but you basically "uncloud" your brews. Higher clarity, better flavor separation. More "focus" on the individual notes when they're not as blendy. Theres a chinglish picture with those burrs here so you can see the 6 prebreakers vs 7.
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>>20035217
I've been slacking. Sorry /ctg/entlemen.