This blog will help you choose the best grinder for your coffee journey. Multi-purpose workhorses like the Encore and Virtuoso+ won’t break your budget, next-level precision like the Vario and Vario-W will up your game for espresso and brew, and cutting edge technology like the Sette series will elevate the home espresso experience.
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When you make a grind adjustment, you expect an immediate result. This makes sense because grind has a serious effect on the flavor of your coffee. So what does it mean if you make an adjustment, but don’t see a change in how your coffee extracts? Some…
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Chaff is the thin outer skin of the coffee bean and is prevalent in roasted coffee that is of a lighter roast profile, especially if the chaff collector of the roaster becomes full during roasting. When roasted to a darker roast profile, the chaff is b…
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It’s not often that you think about Middle School and great coffee together, right? But that’s definitely what happening at Piedmont Middle School in Charlotte NC. A student team here have a coffee shop, to provide Admin and Faculty with delicious coff…
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by Alex Choppin, Baratza Support Specialist So you’ve taken the dive down the rabbit hole of home espresso. Congratulations! The Sette 30 is a great machine for you to use as you start this journey. We at Baratza aren’t interested in telling anyone how…
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by Alex Choppin, Baratza Support Specialist. We have updated this blog to reflect S1 burr changes. For more info refer to this blog. I’ve worked in coffee for twelve years, and most of that time was spent behind an espresso machine. I remember thwackin…
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For the last 4 years, Baratza has been working on the development and launch of the Sette family of grinders. As we have said many times, the design and build of the Sette grinders is based on many revolutionary and innovative technologies, including t…
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By Alex Choppin, Baratza Support Specialist & US Brewers Cup Competitor 2017 The Sette Series, with its revolutionary design and functionality, has really challenged our pre-suppositions as coffee professionals and grinder nerds. It’s an exciting e…
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We’ve been getting a lot of questions about what these are and if they’re needed. If you bought a Sette 270W or Sette 270, the card that comes along with these pieces directs you to the documentation page, which allows you to view and/or download any o…
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We’re so stoked here at Baratza to have a team member representing us in competition! This year, our newest member to the Support team, Alex Choppin, will be competing in the Brewers Cup Qualifying Competition in Austin on Feb 11-12. We grabbed a li…
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