09.06.08
The Inner Tinkerer
It ain’t broke.
But it can be better…infinitely.
There are many things involved in making coffee. Many work very well. Thankfully some of these things can work a little better if they can be pulled apart and put back together in better shape.
Better encompasses not just faster or bigger. It can also mean easier, and in the world of coffee, tastier. All this just makes the inner tinkerer in us sleepless with ideas and questions.
After a few twilight meanderings, I set out to tinker with my BNZ conical grinder.
I have done away with the doser, and here it is in [non]dosing action. Much faster too as the redundant thwack-thwack pulling of the doser lever is obviated.
Without the doser, the grinder’s velocity is laid bare and the funnel shapes the torrent of grinds into a clean vortex. The descending tornado is dangerously mesmerising.
The result of the coffee alchemist’s tinkering: a static-free, clump-free, well-distributed mound of ground coffee.
Neil A Said:
June 9, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Very cool images Hazel!
The ‘funnel’ you’ve used here - is that a simple bolt-on replacement for the regular doser?
YeeZa Said:
June 10, 2008 at 10:54 am
WOW! The consistency of that gind from those photo’s is amazing! I’ve never seen a doserless grinder (I guess I haven’t seen that many) so clump-less. I’ve had a sticky-beak at a few BNZ’s in local cafe’s lately and am definitely putting it on my ‘wish’ list.
p.s. Thanks again for helping me out the other day at Di Bartoli’s at the intermediate course. As soon as I got home to my Jolly, things were fine again, switching from espresso to ristretto at will. I hadn’t used that Macap before (excuses, excuses). I’m still processing the knowledge passed down from you even though it was weeks ago.
Dan
nunu Said:
June 26, 2008 at 9:05 am
Maybe you should patent the modification and sell it to BNZ.
BNZ Vortex or Rifle doserless grinder. Has a good twang to it.