Don’t Buy a Single Dose Grinder Until You Watch This! | Comparison 

Love the way you present. Not many people compare the workflow (which is the key). They just point out that “Product A is better than Product B”

I think the best workaround I have discovered with single dose grinding is using coffee storage tubes/vials. It makes it so much easier because for one - the coffee is pre-weighed and ready to go so you don't need to worry about that and second - it is correctly stored in air-tight (mostly) containers! Best of both worlds IMO. :D

Thanks for this Pedro. I have been intrigued with Eureka's Mignon line and settled on the Facile. I also ordered a single dose hopper with bellows. I cannot wait to get started.

I’ve a Specialita and am getting zero retention with consistency using RDT, which it might not even need to do. Came from the Sette 270 which honestly is a zero retention champ (w/RDT). The Spec is equally beastly in this department even as a single doser!

You're on fire with these videos! Shooting them one after another, and all of them are relevant. I've found your videos helpful, thank you for your effort!

Great presentation! Now I learn something valuable. I am new to this and I prefer the Eureka for convenience. Maybe a single dose when I get more experience.

I have a Niche. It's my first ever grinder and it's great. I'm itching to get a flat burr single dose grinder though. I'll stick with single dose, low retention grinders I think. If I'm entertaining lots of people it'd make more sense to get something like the Eureka.

Acaia Orbit can do both single dose and grind-by-weight with a hopper add-on.

Surely it depends how many coffees you are making in a day, if your only making a few cups a day you don't wanna be filling a large hopper up and visa versa it all depends on the individual

The solution for me was to add a bellows single-dose hopper to the Eureka, then can have best of both worlds. I spray my first shot of the day and usually drink 3-4 shots throughout the day and only have around 0.1g of retention. Use a dosing cup to measure beans then grind into it, kind of annoying to grind into the portafilter on the Eureka Mignon Facile with the funnel attached. Grind on demand makes more sense to me if you are running a shop or making a few shots in a row for friends if you have a grinder that can grind by weight or time and you already have those beans dialed in, retention doesn't really matter as you end up pushing out the last bit of the previous grind (if still fresh) and works out to be about the same.

To me, the ultimate single-dose grinder is a hand grinder!

SD FTW but my eureka specita is great too ❤

When you weight your beans do you weight the little metal thing first and then tare and then put your beans in?

The Niche Zero is a fines monster if you're doing filter coffee. The new Fellow Shimmy is a real asset to those who have a Niche and want to do filter, or possibly even a better tasting espresso.

What you're forgetting about single dose, which is the biggest upside for me, is that you don't waste nearly as much coffee when dialing in.

I did buy a single dose espresso grinder before watching this video

I have a specialita with 3D printed bellows to blow out the retained grounds for my 0 retention. As for work flow, I believe that if you have purchased an expensive espresso machine you should take that extra step to weigh in your beans. BTW, Do you sell the eureka single dose hopper and bellows?

You can actually get a small single-dose hopper for the Eureka.

I'm new to this stuff and researching to buy my first grinder. How does this sound with the Eureka. Figure the amount of beans I'd need for a full pot and only put that much in the hopper. Then grind them all out. Do that each morning. Seems simple. Am I missing something?

thx for the informations... BUT: @ Ni she Zero... etc. - why not grinding into the ports filter directly, eventually with a funnel??? particularly to avoid unnecessary contact with aggressive oxygen?!

Single dose grinder is much MUCH MUCH better than normal grinder. It's not even comparable. Once I switched to single dose grinder it made all the problems go away. No retention means that you can change grind when dialing without wasting more coffee. You can do simple adjustment every time you brew so you always have great coffee every time. You only need to weight input beans which is easier and better than doing it after grinding or "volumetric" - time based grinding. And you should weight output anyways so you need the scale at any rate.

People also have your realize that if they don’t want to play with your coffee and have a easy workflow. They also have to have the right equipment to do so.

Every grinder is single dose. All you need do is keep it empty, and pre-measure the beans you’re putting in. Then grind til there are no more beans.

How I wish if there is in depth review on the taste of espresso from Eureka XL. Great video nevertheless!

Good video, you can drink good coffee without single dosing and long grinding times.

There is a single dose hopper for Eureka and XL has really low retention.

can you do a more in depth review/comparison of the Mazzer Mini against the Niche? :D

Hi! Thanks for the video! MY big question is: can I use the XL as a single dose grinder due to it's very low retention? Eureka guys told me that the grinder is designed to work on a full hopper, but we all know that full hoppers also get to the point where coffee finishes. So, what's the deal?

Why not use your XL as a single or double dose once the dips/gaps are filled. The gaps around screw holes etc once they fill with ground coffee stay there until you do your periodical clean. (When that happens a quick fill grind refils the gaps.) And you are ostensibly zeroed. So you will have 20g in 20g out, or in my case, 40g in 20g + 20g out. Remove the hopper device with your own anti-popcorn disk. This doesn't make the XL better than the Niche it equates it. It gives you flat burrs with clarity over conical burrs with body. That's the difference between the two, the style of espresso you prefer.

For a home barista the single dosing is always better: - fresher beans - you can easily switch beans - perfect dosing Its just a bit more effort but the benefits outweight the cons. Easily.

I had a Specialita and moved to the Single Dose. I don't get the same results with the Single Dose. 20 grams in, sometimes 20 gr out, sometimes 19.2 grams out, sometimes 21 grams out. If you hit the bellows too hard, they come off. It was performing well for awhile, I then tried grinding for pour over and it took about a dozen shots back on the espresso grind setting for it to start behaving again. I haven't changed the settings or the coffee and it has again started with a wide variance. I appreciate the comments about single dosing, but this grinder has been more of a headache than a help.

you know i use eureka as single dose and a bell to push aöö mgrams out ?

What's stopping u for pouring only 18g beans on the other grinder?

Though everyone is saying single dose ist better, the bitter truth nobody wants to hear is that none of the people here commenting will ever notice a difference in taste when making the coffee with the minimal "retention". Apart from that, please remember you have a single dose upgrade incl. Blow up cleaning for a very small amount of money.

Mignon grinders' retention is crazy bad. Even with a bellows and tilted base. They all use the same mechanism, but with varying electronics. The chute can't handle the combination of static and oils, and their mechanism doesn't have a spring-loaded agitator. Do not buy Mignon grinders for single-dosing.

Single dose the only way to go!

music is too loud, bro

This video confirmed for me that I really don't need a single dose grinder! Also that Panerai 😍

Content may be ok... But the audio in this video is annoying as it waves in and out with volume...