new host, new blog… new Grinder
We’ll, i’ve moved things to a new host… and so, starting over with the blog.
Going to jump straight into things and if i find any thing from the old site that may be interesting i’ll try and move it over into the archives at some point.
On to the exciting things!
I just got a new grinder from the folks at NUOVA Simonelli, the MDL… at first I thought that it might be too much of a machine for me to handle: on, off and that is it — 19 grams in 3-4 seconds, or there abouts.
The first stumbling block with this grinder was all the coffee spraying out into the dosing chamber leaving all the fine particulate stuck to the sides of the chamber, every once in awhile dropping to the bottom effectively changing up the grind on me. With NUOVA’s MDM the same thing happens. This is easily fixed on the MDM by holding your fingers in front of the throat of the grinder until the it clogs up and starts dropping the grounds straight down in to the doser. This was not the case with the faster MDL. With the MDL this clog would blow out very quickly. I messed around with a lot of ideas and finally came up with this…
I modified the throat of the grinder with this bit of plastic (from a milk jug) to stop the coffee from spraying out of the burrs, now the coffee drops straight down; no more static, no more spray.
Hands down my new favorite grinder.
Fast. Very fast. Too fast. I am now working on installing a digital timer.
—elvin
Tags: grinders, MDL, NUOVA Simonelli