I'm a freelancer who tends to move from studio to studio for typically 2-3 months at a time. I'd been at my current gig for about a week when I decided to check out the kitchen on the second floor. What do i find in there but a La Scala Butterfly! Plumbed in and everything! Unfortunately their grinder has not arrived yet so I'm grinding at home in the morning and then bringing that to work in a ziplock. Gave it the first test this morning and was quite impressed. I'll be curious to see if this e61 gives me upgraditis over my Oscar. It seems there's not a ton of these machines in NA. Do any of you have experience?

What a nice discovery.

Is it too extreme for me to suggest instead of bringing pre ground coffee, that you bring your grinder? I would think this would give you a more honest feel for what the machine is capable of.

Would you be willing to obtain a hand grinder for the interim?

Yes, that would be too extreme. Mainly I wouldn't want the whole company messing with my grinder though. Nor would I want to be that weird guy who brought in his own coffee grinder and wouldn't let others use it. I'm told the grinder has actually arrived and just needs to be picked up. I might bring in my bottomless NS pf and see if it works with the La Scala though.

yeah, nobody want's to be that guy. You can probably sneak the NPF in without tipping anyone off.

Ok bringing in my own pf is one thing but my own grinder? I walk to work!

So they went with a $50 Krupps burr grinder. Awesome. I'm far too new at this company to make any kind of comments about this.

BURNED! Oh man that is rough. IIRC, Krups grinders have a tendency to fall right off the counter onto a pile of bricks and then be stepped on multiple times before anything is realized. Might want to watch out for that phenomenon.

nixter wrote:I'm far too new at this company to make any kind of comments about this.

'Performance art' is your only option. You must act like the espresso machine is a shrine, and ignore the grinder altogether. If you do acknowledge it, do so as you would a malformed puppy. It isn't pretty, it probably won't survive, but it really isn't it's fault, and it's kinda sad.

Perhaps you could find pages on this site, or other coffee sites, that discuss this machine, and hope that they run across any number of the 'no, it's the grinder, silly' threads?