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  • BanjoPaterson
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    Originally posted by tompoland View Post
    Hi all, I have a grinder that I reckon is rather good. Possibly the best value high-end grinder on the market.

    I’m so impressed with it that I want to do a review on it. I don’t want to say what the make and model is at this point but rather I’d love to know what you would like to see in a review.
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    OK - if your profile picture shows your set up, I'm more than a bit jealous.

    I guess I'd be interested in how you got to your grinder and set up in particular. What grinders did you go through and what were their strong and weak points? Your profile photo shows the 'where you are now' in your coffee journey, but I'm interested in how you got here. What does it achieve that your other grinders didn't?

    As a previous poster suggested - a tier list of your grinders past and present perhaps?

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  • tompoland
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    I had no idea shadow745 I have only dipped my toe in the HB water but now you mention it and think back over some of the posts, I suspect you are on the money. I won't be posting the review there. I'll stick to CS and the @DavecUK forum based in the UK. An British version of CS where people tend to be less precious and friendlier. Thanks for the heads up.

  • JohnA
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    Tofu, not true. If you say you are on a budget a Monolith is the recommendation
    Ah the poor mans grinder

  • 338
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    Tofu, not true. If you say you are on a budget a Monolith is the recommendation.

  • t0fu
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    What's the point of a grinder review thread on hb? Whenever anyone asks for advice on a grinder for filter and occasional espresso they get recommended an ek43 and the rest of the thread devolves into whether they need a Titus alignment or whether they need a commercial grade refractometer to go with said ek.

  • shadow745
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    Absolutely no surprise the thread was shot down by the dweebs at Home-Tardista... many of them are self-entitled, arrogant enthusiasts that get butthurt when something is posted they don't agree with. Especially when one of their beloved manufacturers gets bashed publicly as that almost always results in a thread being locked or removed. Or in this case that they assumed was for commercial advertising benefit. Believe me, you're losing nothing by not bothering with that forum as many of them are clueless as to what's what, especially a few of the PITA moderators that need to be thumped back into line at times.

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  • t0fu
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    Clearly need a tier list with all your other grinders past and present giving subjective ratings from f to S

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  • amberale
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    Just to bring the Russian/research thing full circle.
    Did spillchick turn Meerkat into marketer?

  • tompoland
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    60 would be nice 338!

  • 338
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    Tom, from here where we know you we can see it was done with good intentions by you. Also I guessed what equipment you had available, probably not a spare Versalab, Titus, etc. Even some of the suggestions were pretty big time. Also the reason I didn't suggest analysing particle sizes or refractometer measurements, assuming you don't have that equipment.

    Seems you got punished for doing your homework and research.

    I was laughing - even if you weren't If you were a Russian hacker or scammer you would have pretended to be an attractive 25 year old girl, not a 60 yr old bloke!

  • tompoland
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    Ah yes, what a shite show that turned out to be.

    I was not aware of site rules which is that you can't post the same thread on multiple forums. Which makes sense. All I was wanting to do was to canvas a wide range of ideas so I could do a decent review of the grinder. Kind of get a framework so I can tell people the information they wanted. I've never done a grinder review before but lesson learned, I won't post to the same content to multiple platforms again.

    Someone on the other platform did a background check on "tom poland" and discovered that I am a marketer. And we all know that whenever some who is a marketer says anything positive about a product that they are (a) lying and (b) being paid an obscene amount of money to perpetuate that lie. At the merest suggestion that I was up to no good, the admin shut the thread down. No message to me, no digging a bit deeper just "holy hell, get the machine gun out, there is a marketer in the room" I was upset a few hours ago, now I see the funny side.

    Sigh.

  • 338
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    Thanks Amberale, explains why they got confused. NZ, Russia, all a fair way from USA...

    We still know and like you here Tom.

  • amberale
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    He's a real Aussie.
    Just like Split Enz, Phar Lap and Pavlova.

  • 338
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    Hello Tom, or should I say Tomachesky, the first thing I want to know are you a Russian hacker or marketer? I read on another forum you may be?? Us Aussies deserve the news first.

    Second, to confirm your Aussie Coffee Personality status I think you should do a version of the original red sofa project (should I say red when you are a closet Russian?). Lug the new grinder round Hastings St, the National Park, etc taking photos everywhere so we know you are really a Noosa identity.

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  • amberale
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    Longevity, how does it perform after one year, two years.
    Accuracy and repeatability when changing grind settings.
    I grind significantly coarser for my second cup of the day on the CT1 than I do for my first on the Bianca so I change every day.
    I also use a range of settings for about a dozen different beans.

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