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Coffee Discussion boards => Hardware & Equipment => Topic started by: yakster on June 20, 2012, 05:16:53 PM

Title: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: yakster on June 20, 2012, 05:16:53 PM: New hand-grinder being prototyped for espresso, targeted to come in at less then $1000 with 71 or 83 mm burrs (click on image for link):

(http://hg-one.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HG_one_grinder-2-710x710.jpg) (http://www.hg-one.com)
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: jspain on June 20, 2012, 05:22:52 PM: That's what I need! Maybe Patti will buy that for me for Christmas?? Ain't the rabbit hole GIGANTIC! 8)
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: ScareYourPassenger on June 20, 2012, 06:37:34 PM: Very cool! That is a monster of a burr set. What grinder is it out of I wonder?
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: mp on June 21, 2012, 06:03:08 AM: I love the size of the burrs ... but me thinks it is a tad large for traveling.

:)
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: expy98 on June 21, 2012, 02:08:03 PM: oh cool... sometime last yr shortly after the Pharos was introduced, I was conversing w/ a local who
sent me drawings of his prototype grinder w/ the largest burr set avail and been waiting to hear
back to go check out his prototype. I guess it's ready or close to ready for production. Have to see
if I can check it out in person...
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: John F on June 21, 2012, 04:29:19 PM: It's cool but totally odd.

Gigantic burr one hand grinder..... Wacky man.
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: EricBNC on June 21, 2012, 04:36:18 PM: Quote from: ScareYourPassenger on June 20, 2012, 06:37:34 PM
Very cool! That is a monster of a burr set. What grinder is it out of I wonder?

I read on H-B that the burrs will be purchased from Mazzer - a manual Robur sounds pretty neat to me. ;)
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: expy98 on June 21, 2012, 04:41:31 PM: I don't think it's meant to be used with only one hand altho the title of this thread as well as the
pic of one hand on the site sorta indicate otherwise.

I have an invite to see it in person.
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: Tex on June 21, 2012, 07:41:28 PM: Is this intended for the Islamic market, where they cannot use their left hand to prepare or consume food? ??? Or was it a prop for The Fugitive?
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: mp on June 21, 2012, 08:00:08 PM: Quote from: yakster on June 21, 2012, 08:41:49 AM
Unless you're traveling in a motor home. It would fit right in.

LOL

Yeah ... and only if you have a 34 footer.

;D
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: BozemanEric on January 09, 2013, 09:14:59 PM: Has anyone picked one of these up or gotten a chance to play with one yet?
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: ScareYourPassenger on January 10, 2013, 03:38:27 AM: I have been temped by this. The process for the modded Pharos isn't much better than a stock one.
It is just less noisy.

The hg-one has been plagued by static and need for wdt from what I can tell in the thread. I am done with wdt and hope to never do it again.
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: ScareYourPassenger on January 10, 2013, 09:25:03 AM: I used water to help with static when dealing with darker roasts for the pharos but now that I am back to FC+ beans I am in great shape.
Title: Re: HG one Hand Grinder
Post by: rasqual on January 10, 2013, 11:03:34 AM: Seems to owe a debt to the Versalab (http://www.versalab.com/server/coffee/grindernew.html).

I know watching one in action at Jim Schulman's apartment years back left me impressed with the value of grinding directly into the portafilter provided the grinder dropped it the way this particular one did.

Fascinating.