It seems to be pretty much always the wisest course to wait for a v2, regardless of product or company. Your decision is if three bags of coffee "valued at $75+" is enough of an incentive to buy what is effectively a launch edition. Another consideration for those of us who are electrically conserva...

For best results, use a basket designed for ESE pods, e.g., {link} . In addition, an ESE-compatible portafilter and/or an ESE group dispersion block and/or shower screen may be needed. In order to work as designed, the ESE pod must be compressed against the shower screen when the portafilter is lock...

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On many grinders with burrs mounted horizontally, backing off the grind setting - unscrewing the adjuster entirely - is necessary to remove the upper burr. Thus, the grind setting is lost. You can, of course, make a note of the setting value and reset upon re-installation of the upper burr

Nick explains/removes the shower head to Lance Hedrick. (The link is to an Instagram story so you need to sign in to Instagram.) {link} As an aside, Nick mentions that there is a flowmeter

I wouldn't characterize it as un-inspiring - for example, the Technivorm Moccamaster Cup-One is pretty well regarded, albeit limited to 300ml/10oz, and appears at first glance to use a similar shower setup, albeit with a #1 trapezoidal cone instead of a #2, and without the bloom and pulse and temper...

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In the meantime, you could investigate how you would like coffee from a restricted/constant-flow one-hole #2 Melitta-style cone with a center-weighted potentially higher-velocity pour vs. what you prefer to do now. I'm not saying one is better or worse than another; just that you might have a taste ...

Upon further googling, you are right. All the dealer sales that came up were outside the USA so those would be grey-market imports into the USA. I've deleted my post

That hasn't been my experience, but YMMV. (Many grinders with flat burrs have augers/'pre-breakers' that can hold partially crushed beans in addition to what is between the burrs.)