Love my Monolith Conical. It produces highly consistent results and very good tasting coffee. I use it at home and single dose.

If I were running a busy coffee shop, I'd probably want a commercial grinder with a hopper and a timed-dose.

Don't regret the price of the Monolith. It is worth it. It is a solid bit of machinery, built to last and very well made. Low volume and precision alignment and testing all take time which is clearly a big part of the price.

If reports are true, the KINU grinders, including the m68 (titan conical) have an alignment system that essentially guarantees extremely precise alignment. Folks owning KINU grinders are reporting no burr rub at a practical zero setting where grinding puts no coffee out! So the m68 should be able to compete with Monolith conical in performance if alignment is really the game changer, which I am inclined to believe just thinking logically. KINU is also working on an electric 68mm conical grinder, which if successful could potentially compete directly with the Monolith conical in the supremely aligned, single-dosing, home-friendly titan conical category. Likely at a somewhat better price point, but not sure about that as there's very little info out on it at the moment.

randyh wrote:Folks owning KINU grinders are reporting no burr rub at a practical zero setting where grinding puts no coffee out!.

I think that is a pure hype for couple of reasons, one being that no burr is perfectly concentric, let alone Italian burrs so rub is guaranteed and build into the function of the burrs. Second is that I have tried Kinu grinder and it rubs just like any other grinder adjusted fine. I tested it with Feldgrind and Helor and Kinu is not any better or worse...

Best Conical? Pharos. I mean really, hands on and with lots of strength, it is the best!

Shocked no one has mentioned the Titus.

I think the main grinding on a Titus is the flat component of the burr, with the conical component doing the breaking.

I guess I don't actually know how the Titus works. TIL, thanks!

Uses similar burrs to the Versalab, La Cimbali Max/Junior, or the old DRM grinders. A conical bit that's kinda like the top part of a normal conical grinder (but bigger) does the breaking, and the flat part does the grinding. Kinda more it's own thing as a hybrid than it is a flat or conical I guess.

It's like a auger fed flat, but the auger is to small for the beans so they are pre-broken before reaching the flat burrs.

Ira

The OP never said what he is doing with the conical. Commercial coffee shop? Home use exclusively? Portable for pop up coffee stands?