Mazzer Kold Grinder

#1: Post by **damonbowe** » October 17th, 2013, 10:51 pm

Well, it's finally happened. Someone combined a grinder with an ice cream maker, and it was Mazzer! All jokes aside, this thing looks badass and might be interesting to a few high end, high throughput shops.

http://sprudge.com/ogling-new-mazzer-cold-grinder.html

#2: Post by **TomC** » October 17th, 2013, 10:54 pm

Posted already, but if someone uses one, it should be in it's own thread so the info can easily be found.

New water cooled Espresso Grinder Designed in BC

#3: Post by **redpig** » October 17th, 2013, 10:56 pm

Interesting! It seems like a lot of the design decisions from the DRM (belt, side control, +Schomer's fan hack). Not quite the new NS grinder, but cool. Thanks!

October 17th, 2013, 11:01 pm

TomC wrote:Posted already, but if someone uses one, it should be in it's own thread so the info can easily be found.

New water cooled Espresso Grinder Designed in BC

Drat, there were zero key words used so I missed it.

#5: Post by **doubleOsoul** » October 18th, 2013, 12:33 am

Well, what can I say. I got all emotional when I posted on account of the exciting discovery - key words got by me. I'm hoping I can check out the grinder over the weekend and report back here.

October 18th, 2013, 10:13 am

Ha ha, I should have searched more I guess. Anyway, I can make a case that Mazzer has earned independent thread status!

I'd like someone to actually start pointing one of those infrared thermometers into the burrs during grinding before I believe all this stuff about 70/30% kinetic energy of beans and whatnot. I mean, it sounds good but I need evidence. Maybe I missed that in my searching around, too...

#7: Post by **Chabeau** » October 18th, 2013, 10:33 am

Since they offset the motor and burrs anyways it seems like it would have been a good opportunity to modify the chute to something shorter and/or vertical to aid with retention. Maybe they have, but the grinder in this article looks similar to their existing design in this regard. Then again they may not feel it's a big issue.

October 18th, 2013, 12:29 pm

I agree with you. As you say, this looks like trying to reuse existing parts except for the hopper.

I like the design because it maintains the distinctive Mazzer look. But the grind path could be improved. The amount of beans that a shop has to waste in a recalibration is not insignificant for this size grinder, so the grind path is also relevant to commercial applications.

#9: Post by **Spitz.me** » October 18th, 2013, 1:05 pm

Until commercial customers start caring about coffee retention in grind chutes, it's not happening folks.

I don't think this grinder has a distinct Mazzer look at all, it looks very different to the other offerings and very fugly IMO.

#10: Post by **Intrepid510** » October 18th, 2013, 2:40 pm

Spitz.me wrote:I don't think this grinder has a distinct Mazzer look at all, it looks very different to the other offerings and very fugly IMO.

+1

Give me that Canadian grinder any day of the week at least in terms of looks.