Product Description
Baratza Vario Grinder is here!
This is the grinder every coffee professional needs at home and every serious coffee enthusiast should own.The Vario Grinder quickly allows the user to dial in the grind setting from Espresso to French Press to Vacuum Pot to Chemex and back again. Furthermore the Vario Grinder has a second grind adjustment lever for making minute refinements to each setting.
The Vario is a commercial quality grinder with 54mm ceramic flat burrs with a throughput of 1.9 grams per second and an innovative, macro-micro grind adjustment with 230 settings. The sleek contemporary design, small foot print, and adjustability for any style of coffee also make it perfect as a home grinder.
Below are some of the incredible features of the Baratza Vario Grinder:
Mahlkonig 54mm ceramic flat burrs:
Stay sharper longer. Ceramic has a 1.5 -2.0X longer life than steel burrs
Keeps the coffee cool by limiting the amount of heat transferred from the burrs to the grinds.
Grind on Demand with Electronic Dosing
Grinds only the coffee you require for each shot directly into your espresso porta filter.
Eliminates the risk of stale ground coffee common in mechanical dosing units.
0.1 second adjustable steps (0.2 grams )
Three, user programmable grind time buttons
Innovative dual cam grind adjustment:
The right hand lever lets you choose what type of grind you’d like.
The lever on the left lets you fine tune the grind within the range you’ve selected for a perfect grind.
Over 230 grind settings available.
PortaHolder
Universally adjustable brackets for any portafilter.
Allows for hands free operation.
Belt Driv
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I agonized for a long time before spending over $400 on a grinder. I started off thinking that I would spend no more than a quarter of that amount but after reading numerous reviews, I came to the conclusion that the cheap grinders just don’t work very well. The Vario is so new that I didn’t find any meaningful reviews but I took a chance based on its specifications. I’m very satisfied with it. It looks good, it grinds extremely fast (at least compared to anything I have used before, 20 sec. for enough coffee for a 32 oz French press), there are lots of different grind settings (macro and micro giving lots of combinations), and there are no static problems to throw grounds over the kitchen worktop. The grind appears to be uniform as far as I can tell.
I use it for grinding coffee for a French press. I find setting it a little finer than filter gives the right results for my tastes — I don’t know whether that means its pre-settings are too coarse or whether I just prefer a rich, dirty cup of coffee (I think probably the latter as I’m a Greek/Turkish coffee fan as well as a fan of French press). I have tried it for Greek/Turkish coffee on its finest setting but it did not get it fine enough for that purpose — that does not matter to me as I already have an Athena brass hand-mill. I use the Vario twice a day to make coffee for my French press and it works just great albeit I set it finer than the manufacturer’s setting for French press.
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