by Alexander Mills December 07, 2018
3 min read
The ROK Espresso Maker was my first ever home espresso solution, and four years later I’m still brewing with it. I’ve since upgraded to a dual boiler machine, but something always pulls be back (pardon the pun) to this manual lever machine. I can still remember the first shot I ever pulled on the ROK. I hand ground some beans using a Porlex Mini, tamped my bed, locked, loaded, and pulled.
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by Alexander Mills November 30, 2018
3 min read
Burr grinders differ from blade grinders by crushing the beans as opposed to slicing and chopping them, resulting in a much more uniform particle size. Because the beans are getting crushed between the burrs with each rotation of the crank arm, most manual burr grinders are a literal labour of love. It can be time consuming and even physically laborious to grind beans by hand, but the ROK Grinder does it faster and easier than any manual grinder I’ve ever used.
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by Julien 'Le Coffee Geek' Labelle November 22, 2018
2 min read
Vous l’avez sûrement déjà entendu quelque part: l’achat d’un moulin est la pièce la plus importante pour réussir un bon café. Outre le fait que le grain sera plus frais et la tasse plus aromatique lorsqu’il sera moulu juste avant l’infusion, il est important d’avoir une constance et une uniformité pour la grosseur des particules. Voici l’évaluation de mon expérience avec le Comandante C40 Nitro.
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