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replacing Rocky doser grinder with something much better - but what exactly?

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  • #46
    Originally posted by Magic_Matt View Post
    Thought I'd try this - ~1:30 from go to whoa, give or take 10 seconds and I'm enjoying the fruits of my labours within 4 minutes. I'm happy enough with that!

    FWIW I don't think my single dosing process is exceptional in any way - weigh beans into a spare double basket that also serves as a lid on the grinder to prevent beans popcorning out - I drop it onto the scales and tare, pour my dose, dump into the grinder throat and hit the go button; once it's ground I sweep the chute, drop the P/F onto scales and tare, dose and weigh. Typically I'm between the intended dose to 0.2 g over. Level off with a finger, pushing a few grounds out if the dose is over, reweigh, tap to settle and tamp. I very rarely have to adjust the dose a second time.

    Unless it's the last shot of the session I'll normally have one dose in the throat ready to go and another sitting in the basket on top - so can dump the second dose by pushing the edge of the basket to flip it. Particularly helpful if making two doubles back to back.


    Totally agree with this - the goal is a repeatable process that leads to a reasonably consistent sized, freshly ground dose delivered and distributed consistently into the basket. There are lots of methods using different equipment that can achieve this; single dosing with a commercial grinder with large conical burrs and doser is one of them, a timed doserless grinder is another. I wouldn't want to be single dosing in a commercial environment, but have observed very busy cafes using a similar process, albeit with a pre-doser between the hopper and grinder throat and a grinder designed for single-dosing. Personally my previous grinder was doserless, so I wanted to play with a doser grinder and am enjoying the technique (as well as the results).

    Without going in to boring detail, I single dose and my work flow is very similar to yours Matt, have tried a weight on top of the beans (my tamper) to prevent popcorning, to my taste makes little or no difference in the cup, so I weigh em and dump em into the grinder, then clean up, 18 grams in = pretty darned close to 18 out, a quick and simple process, nope have never felt the need to time myself, it ain't a race, I'm makin a cuppa coffee and I'm not pressed for time, works well for me, clean the grinder out every month or 6 weeks, not enough build up to worry me.

    Life is good.

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