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ain this picture, it looks like the prototype is a Mignon Manuale with a swapped base to tilt the Mignon Manuale forward.I played around with a prototype last year, you can see the lid in the background on the glass Airscape, cos I was playing around with my Ceado E92 puffer. It was a very pre production unit. Like the ones shown in the Kaffe Netz link. In fact I had the Blue Minima on the bench at the time š
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That's a good point, no timer controls. But I doubt that they'll sell it for Ā£250 and call it a 'tilted Manuale'. Now, if they did sell it for Ā£250 (and they had stock) I reckon it would sell pretty well. If it starts costing on par with the Niche or above, it better have 65mm burrs somehow crammed in there, and there better be no bellows or weird shenanigans to perform.I'm thinking this may come in cheaper than the other offerings in single dosing.
It looks like a Specialita tilted forward with no timer controls adding to the cost š¤
To answer the first question, yes.Do conical burrs perform better for low retention?
I don't think it would be hard to achieve low retention if they actually put some thought into it, when you open these grinders up there's so much dead space in the chambers and lots of areas where grinds can collect. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what the problems are but I guess that it's not something people have worried about in the past?
They've certainly not spent a lot of money redesigning the outside but if if performs well and is cheap then people will live with it I'm sure!
Well, style-wise it definitely borrows something from the Niche. Nothing not to like about white and wood - I do wish the front was chrome though, rather than black.Looks nice. I almost bought a XL yesterday.
Glad I didn't. This is more what I am looking for.
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Well, as I said, I hope I'm proven wrong as more competition for niche's spot will likely mean more innovation and that's what I want to see.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course but to me this is far more appealing than the Solo or Niche from an aesthetic perspective. We shall have to wait and see some independent reviews but given this grinder has been in development for well over a year I suspect it is far from a 'botch'.
Clearly it has strong DNA from other Mignon grinders but that would seem a smart move to me. Why do a whole lot more R&D and spend on tooling when you have a platform ripe for adapting. Even the lowest spec Mignons are very competitive re retention so I am sure some tweaks will bring it inline with the best single dosers already on the market. I suspect these sensible design choices will help it to be competitively priced š