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A video showing a new grinder turned up on my YouTube feed last night. It’s called the Slingshot and uses a completely new method of dosing that I haven’t seen before.
I saw it at MICE 2019 and chatted with the fellow about it, it seriously looks amazing and performs exceptionally. I can't remember the exact mechanism, but it sort of pre-prepares a dose, and doses in an incredibly accurate and what seems to be a perfectly distributed way, and also has a timer on there for how long you've had that ground dose sitting in there. Hard to explain, and there are many more features, but seeing it in operation was something special. Definitely seems more aimed at commercial/cafe settings, and is super efficient.
Looks interesting, and well executed (in dispensing at least). I'm curious how much difference it would make when you're just pumping out the shots. Surely it's already the number of groups limiting the rate of shots rather than the grinder? Most cafes have grinders that will grind the dose in 10s or usually less, by the time you've tamped, wiped and locked in you'll be at no more than 20s. Still well under the 30s the shot will pour for before you need to do it again. With something like a Robur and Puqpress you can keep a 3 group machine busy with just one grinder.
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