Forgot to mention I crossed the Sette off my list as I cared a lot about durability. I would ideally like my grinder to last years easily (like >ten).
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Edit: I just saw you said you aren't looking at the Sette.. so take the below however you want! 😀
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Just went through this process myself - I talked myself out of a second hand Mazzer because of the dosing chamber just being messy and the retention problems of brewing for home. In a cafe? Sure.
I ended up buying a Baratza Sette 270 and am loving it. If I could afforded the Wi version I would have got it but budget was around $4-500.
The Sette 270 that I got is still programmable, it has a timer to 0.01 seconds. So I can dial that in and still get +/- 0.3 grams accuracy which I thought was more than good enough.
Other big tick for the Sette 270 is that there's almost zero retention, the coffee drops vertically directly from the hopper straight through the burrs into the portafilter, so less wastage and easy to clean.
You'll hear about people saying it's "loud" but coming from a DeLongi grinder it's a much lower pitch which I find less annoying - but importantly, it's really fast. At the moment I'm dosing 20 grams in about 6.5 seconds.
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Just to close this out - I ended up replacing the impeller on my BCG800 and it's running back at full health. The experience made me decide to never buy another Breville product - they don't for whatever reason stock the part (despite the tens of thousands of views on youtube videos for instructions on how to replace this part suggesting that it is a common problem). Thankfully internet strangers have designed the part and 3D printed it.
I wish it was still broken so I could get a new grinder, but given it's state I may have to wait for something more substantial to break...
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