slipchuck wrote:Are you talking about a grinder in addition to the BB005 or in place of? If it's in addition to, maybe another BB005 might work well. I know I really love it for espresso and can't see why it can't do other types of coffee.

Randy

I'm quite happy with my bb, thou it clumps and retain grind somewhat. The main bug bear for it is that I can't switch it for pour over use very easily. So if I get a niche, I might use one purely for pour over, or maybe sell off the bb.

I do wonder how bb would compare to sette or niche wrt espresso. And if it's considered a step up from the bb in terms of grind quality.

Backers will be sorely disappointed if the Niche turns out to be comparable to a BB005 when the expectation is closer to a Ceado E37S.

crazy4espresso wrote:I could understand silver, polished or chrome, as an alternative colour, but who opts for a black appliance in a modern kitchen? Looks terrible IMO. If I were the designer I'd also be charging extra for defacing my creation :
The fact that he went with a shade of black that wasn't what most were requesting, tells me he was none too pleased with the request.

Flame blanket on

Because "dusty/greyish" black is popular in europa both for cabinets, end panels as well as appliances, silver or/and brushed is seen as a thing of the 90'ties

Polished or Chrome ain't exactly trendy either outside the espresso world. It is quite clear whom this is market for, it is not the typical coffee geek.

Iamshiwei wrote:I'm quite happy with my bb, thou it clumps and retain grind somewhat. The main bug bear for it is that I can't switch it for pour over use very easily. So if I get a niche, I might use one purely for pour over, or maybe sell off the bb.

I do wonder how bb would compare to sette or niche wrt espresso. And if it's considered a step up from the bb in terms of grind quality.

Strange it must be your weather. Mine virtually never has clumps.

Fluffeepuff wrote: Also, I notice a lot of people equate the burrs in the Niche to the Kony... yet I haven't seen anyone actually show that they are identical burrs. All I've found is 'food grade hardened' (or something similar), which implies
to me they aren't some sh** burrs someone made in their backyard.... but there is WAYYY more to burrs than just material (hardened steel), size (63mm), and shape (conical).

I have not posted for a while because there was not too much to post for US people. However, tomorrow a production tool produced US spec Niche will be coming to join the production tooled UK Niche I have been testing for three weeks or so now. I will be running it from a US to UK voltage converter, but of course at 50Hz (however the electronics don't care and the motor is DC, so it doesn't care). The production US model will be tested as well for weeks....really the only change is the motor, so ostensibly it's to ensure (as far as possible) the 120V motors are OK. I will put up some pictures and video in due course. Tomorrow I have the Hernia inducing job of moving the E92 to the workshop.

Niche want to ensure there are not any problems or issues before they start the production run shortly. So far the UK model has performed flawlessly.

Oh the burrs, as I hope you can see they are not some rubbish someone made in their backyard, in fact I consider them one of the finest if not the finest 63mm conical burr made and good for about 750kg....Lets keep it to ourselves though, we don't want a text search ramming the point home to a certain company do we! Now you can go look em up, if you still need to.

Dave,

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to more.

DaveC, why 100v motors when North American household electricity is 120v ? I'd understand old school 110v as a midpoint from N.A. to Japanese electrical rate.

100V is a typo US 120V motors

Interesting... using Mazzer burrs!

DaveC wrote:I have not posted for a while because there was not too much to post for US people. However, tomorrow a production tool produced US spec Niche will be coming to join the production tooled UK Niche I have been testing for three weeks or so now. I will be running it from a US to UK voltage converter, but of course at 50Hz (however the electronics don't care and the motor is DC, so it doesn't care). The production US model will be tested as well for weeks....really the only change is the motor, so ostensibly it's to ensure (as far as possible) the 120V motors are OK. I will put up some pictures and video in due course. Tomorrow I have the Hernia inducing job of moving the E92 to the workshop.

Thanks for the update Dave. Seeing these coming together is exciting. I'd be curious how the motor performs with hard light roasts.