Kalita next g flat knife bean grinder VS KONO special bean grinder Coffee bean mill brand comparison

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6 minutes to tell you how to choose the "bean grinder"? Adjustment of scale thickness of bean grinder

Before the launch of this new generation of bean grinder, Kalita Next G, along with the content of the film posted on the official website, aroused a heated discussion in the coffee industry and caused a heated discussion in the coffee industry. From the content of the film, this bean grinder solves the problem of the previous generation of Nice Cut, changing the cutter head material from metal to ceramic, and adjusting the speed more slowly to reduce the occurrence of fine powder. in addition, an anti-static device has been added to the fuselage to completely solve the problem of coffee powder flying.

According to Kalita's official statement, the new generation of bean grinders seem to have at least this ability.

But hearing this kind of words, it is a bit harsh for Fuji Royal users like me (although my family is full of ghost teeth), our little Fuji will not become the tears of the times because of this! The same flat knife is the bean grinder, Kalita and Fuji Royal in the end who is the first choice in the hearts of coffee players, must be put together to compare will know ah.

So this article is not irresponsible out of the box, it is an one-on-one competition.

The flat knife version of KONO is to look for Fuji Royal OEM, the internal structure is more or less the same, this competition will find it to do it!

Although Next G is a little bigger than Nice Cut, in terms of size and weight, it is clear that Kalita Next G has taken advantage of it. It is not only one size smaller, but also lighter, but a little taller. But it's hard to say who wins and who loses, because some people just like the domineering of the big channel, but some people like the simplicity of the small one.

Long time no see, KONO dart flat knife head.

When the knife head was taken apart, Next G startled me, because a lot of fine powder was hidden in this position, where the ball could not be blown, so the only way was to take it apart and clean it with a brush.

Moreover, there is really a lot of coffee powder that can be hidden, and it seems that there are still thicker coffee powder left here.

The cutterhead material of Next G is really ceramic!

I guess there should be such coffee grease on the cutter head of KONO flat knife, but because of the color, the metal knife head can pretend not to see it, but the ceramic knife head with white background is very difficult to compare, it really takes some work to make him come back for nothing!

The edge of the ceramic cutter head is blunt, so there is less flaky feeling when doing rough grinding, and the coarse powder will be more uniform. In terms of specifications, the size of the ceramic cutter head is the same as that of the metal cutterhead. Nice Cut users may just change the cutter head, but without the function of static electricity removal.

When I set the scale of Next G to the coffee powder ground in the third frame, I can clearly see that the amount of fine powder is almost zero, and the dry aroma is more stuffy. It may be because there is less fine powder, or there may be no high temperature in the grinding process, so some chemicals that will volatilize with the temperature do not run out.

I do not know if it is because of the cutter head material, even if the Next G scale is adjusted to the smallest, the ground coffee powder is still the same as the KONO scale 3 particles of the flat knife version.

The grinding speed of Next G is really slow. 12 grams of coffee beans have been ground for 25 seconds. Maybe the next generation of coffee lovers prefer slow XD.

As for the function of removing static electricity, it is because the fuselage has a device near the powder outlet, which may use the action of electric current to remove the static electricity on the coffee powder, so the word "High Voltage attention" is marked on the fuselage. Therefore, the material of the cutter head has nothing to do with the existence of static electricity, which will affect only the uniformity of grinding and the existence of fine powder.

KONO flat knife scale four.

There is a large amount of fine powder, and it is sprayed indiscriminately. Fine powder and silver skin will be attached to the powder can. Although the dry aroma is really obvious and the grinding speed is much faster, the fine powder of KONO flat knife is really much more than that of Next G.

The flavor tests are as follows:

Use 12 grams of coffee powder, Next G fourth frame, KONO flat knife scale 4, after grinding, put into the Philharmonic pressure (reverse method, the filter material is the original filter paper). Soak the 200ml in hot water (90 ℃) for 1 minute, then press the coffee out for 30 seconds.

As far as I feel, the flavor of KONO flat knife will be richer, because it is almost better than Next G in coffee aroma, and it will feel more complicated on the taste level. In comparison, the KONO flat knife is a bit like squeezing out the aroma of the coffee itself. you will feel as if something is forcing the coffee to release the aroma and taste, which will be too complex if it is not handled properly.

Although it is obviously inferior in aroma, Next G is really clean in taste and can fully show the greasy and Body of coffee itself, as well as in sweetness. It feels a bit like letting the coffee emerge the original flavor outline slowly, slowly and quietly.

I think the taste of Next G is very much like filtering out a lot of ghost teeth from the fine powder. if you want to make an aroma, you may have to make more efforts in baking or cooking.

To make this article more objective, I asked several players (and store representatives) who had previously competed with these two bean grinders to take a blind test. What is more interesting is that the answers they gave me in advance were all won by Next G.

But when I asked them to choose the better cup by blind test, four out of six people chose the cup made by KONO flat knife and thought it tasted better, while only two people chose Next G because the cup felt cleaner. What is more interesting is that those who think the KONO flat knife is better are all boys (including me), and those who think Next G is better are all girls.

It seems really interesting.

Anyway, it doesn't count until you like it. All the open-box articles and competitive articles on the Internet are just other people's gossip. If you read it, you can just smile. After actually using these two bean grinders, I still obediently went back to use my little Fuji ghost teeth and had no idea of changing the flat knife at all.

In the flat knife world, who is good and who is bad is left to the smart one to make your own choice.

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