The Best Grinder for your Cafe? Anfim SP2 Coffee Grinder
For the last two years or more we have been using the Anfim SP2 coffee grinder and we absolutely love it! It's fast, clean, efficient and bullet proof. The specifications for the Anfim SP2 are as below:
Industry best 55 IP dual fans and separation of the burr chamber and motor to minimise heat and stabilise the internal temperature within a busy environment.
75 mm SP Titanium burr set operating at low 650 rpm for longevity and clarity of the espresso.
Stepless grind adjustment with infinite micrometric changes.
Durable proximity sensor to avoid grind ingression.
The stepless grind adjustment, hands-free actuator sensor and the user-friendly software with a precise timer, adjustable by steps to 1/10 of a second ensures consistent dosing necessary for a consistent pour time.
Safety switches which deactivate the grinder if the hopper or spout are removed.
Removable back panel for easy access to the internals and wiring.
Overload protection
In this video Luke is going to talk you through this awesome commercial coffee grinder from Anfim and why we like it so much.
Video Transcript
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today we're taking a closer look at the
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Anfim Sp2 coffee grinder it's been used
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here in the bar for about two years now
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and we supply this out to all of our
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artistic customers we want to share with
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you just some of the specs and why we
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choose this grinder and how we also use
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it as well so let's get straight into it
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[Music]
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as i said before we've had this sp2 here
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for two years and they've been faultless
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we just haven't had an issue with them
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and that's why we do supply them to all
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of our artistic coffee accounts so we
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really do love them now we're not
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getting paid by anthem at all but in
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terms of the reliability the consistency
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and the quality we just we'd love that
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and we want to give that to our
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customers as well so let's just quickly
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take a run through the specs the biggest
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thing that the anthem sp2 has is a 75
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mil titanium coated set of flat bait
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blade burrs
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now that is fantastic it's a big set of
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burs running at 650 rpm so it's cutting
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nice and fast but because they're
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titanium coated there's less heat being
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applied to those beans it also allows
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those beans to come out quite hastily
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through the dosing chute into your
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portafilter and keeping those grinds
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nice and clean and fluffy so that speed
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and the big burs is a real plus for us
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you've got a two kilo hopper that sits
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on top with three screws so it's it's
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held down quite tightly
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and you do have adjustment grind control
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which is stepless um just going to the
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right clockwise you're going to increase
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the coarseness of your grind and if you
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go anti-clockwise it's going to go finer
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there's a really nice handy indicator on
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the front here with the arrow
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and slope up showing coarser or finer
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and the red arrow
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which can identify that number but also
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as the blades wear you do just unscrew
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that and you move the arrow across to
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allow for the adjustment because it will
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get to the very end at some point it's
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really easy to do in your dosing shoot
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this is the sp2 plus so now when you do
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remove this it does have
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the safety guard
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so the machine will cut out and also
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when you take off the hopper it will
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stop it so that you can't munch your
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fingers basically in the top
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those two safety features are on the sp2
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plus they're not on the original sp
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so sp2 so we're glad that they've added
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those in
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the other thing that has been upgraded
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to the sp2 plus is the way that the
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machine recognizes that you've got a
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portafilter in your hand and you're
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putting it into the grinder so
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previously they had a button but now
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it's a
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metal sensor or metal proximity sensor
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which will identify that the handle is
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in and that will start the grind it's
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really simple you just lock it in and
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away you go
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it's got a fully adjustable um group
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head handle holder which is great
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because you can use it for the large 21
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gram style and naked or even one of your
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smaller seven gram handles and it just
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sits in
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beautifully
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on the side you've got two buttons to be
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able to select single
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time dose or a double time dose and an
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easy plus and minus which displays down
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on the blue led screen down the bottom
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and then you've got a manual button down
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the side which we use a lot now we don't
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naturally have this rest in our cafes we
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remove it and we put on the additional
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scale holder
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this is the setup that we use it's an
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after-market scale holder we've got the
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aka scale on here and we use a stainless
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steel dosing pot because that allows to
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activate the proximity sensor so what we
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do is we tear our scale
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get our grind
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[Applause]
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and we're looking for 22.5 grams
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the grinder is pretty consistent when
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you've got
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the clump crusher all cleaned out so
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we've got 22 grams now we need a 0.5 and
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the manual button down the side is
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awesome with a quick little tap
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we can get that exact that's 22.6 so
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it's nearly spot on
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we always under dose our setting on our
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timer so that we can quickly add that
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little bit extra if we need to these
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rhino dosing pots fit the 58 mil
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standard group handles and they're
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available on our website
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and they dose beautifully
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keep it nice and tidy for you as well
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setup we use it's a anthem
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do you want to wait for that fork which
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goes
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yeah every time it goes reverse that's
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going to go off
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[Music]
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so as we chase oh
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some grinders you
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flipping beep beep beep
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i'm perfection
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this forklift is ridiculous it just
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keeps going off let's have a coffee all
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right
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let's have a batchy you want a coffee
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i'll have a coffee you have a coffee
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[Music]
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have you tried the monsoon malabar yet
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yeah i've had it had a couple of cups
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it's good yeah what's your thoughts you
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enjoying it yeah i like it it's
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different yeah yeah it's a bit of a
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different coffee beef like it or hate it
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that's awesome
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definitely got um earthy baldness to it
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i did actually have tobacco written down
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as a description and we took it off
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because that can be scaring people
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because it's not smoke tobacco it's
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actually the pouch tobacco um
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and that's coming through
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pretty tasty
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yeah cheers mate cheeseburger
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here's to forklift noise
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and plumbers an excuse to have a coffee
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break
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that's the coffee it's this month you
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can come and buy it we're still
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recording yes i think we are
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oh i've been doing this in all night
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that's it
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we'll get back to work soon cheers guys
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because the anthem is a stepless grinder
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we can really chase um getting a great
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fine grind to increase our tds and make
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sure that the recipe that we're using
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is actually having a great result on the
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end so when you do go finer you can
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have a blockage inside the grind shoot
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now that may happen because the humidity
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or the rain in the day can can change
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how much those grind particle sizes are
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actually sticking together
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the great thing about the anthem sp2 is
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with an allen key you can quickly undo
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the two screws
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remove the grind plate cover which will
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actually activate the safety switch so
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the grinder will turn off so you can't
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grind your fingers inside the unit give
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it a quick scrape out and a brush down
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there's the spring give it a tap and a
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clean um which is actually the spring is
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the clump crusher so you'll be able to
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pop that back in
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pop the
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grind shoot cover on and the two allen
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keys back in and you're ready to go so
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all up in the middle of service if your
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grinder breaks or gets blocked you can
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fix that in about 30 seconds which is
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the quickest by far on any grinder in
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the market when you buy the anthem and
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you start to grind and you've you've
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basically activated the button
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the minute you take your handle away or
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the pot away the grind will actually
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stop it won't continue to grind the full
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amount of time that you've set for your
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single or your double button you have to
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go into the menu and change that
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now you would leave it as the initial
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setting if you want to grind straight
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into the handle remove it halfway
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through the grind give it a bit of a tap
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on the um
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the grind holder and then grind off the
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balance of your dose for us though when
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we're using the dosing pot we want to
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activate the sensor and grind off the
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full amount of coffee so easy to change
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inside the settings of the menu so
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having a clean grinder and being able to
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get that really fine grind we find that
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the am from big flat burrs make our
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coffee just taste beautiful they pair so
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well with the lumizocco machines where
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we can dial in the temperature of that
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machine to what's happening with the
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grind so from that perspective we really
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love it they're reliable they're
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bulletproof and we just it's a pleasure
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for us to share these with our wholesale
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customers so what's not to like about
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the ant from sp2 well commonly people
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who have had one of these grinders or a
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previous version say that they're noisy
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and look i'll agree they are a noisy
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grinder but i think that's more the
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technology over the actual amp from sp2
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if you look at any of the eks or mythos
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grinders that have really big flat burs
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basically you've got a big surface area
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that's it's running at a much higher
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speed so the grind noise is a lot louder
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when you compare to any type of conical
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grinder let's say like a maser rover so
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you can't compare a flat bur versus a
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conical they are they're two different
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technologies and they are going to sound
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a lot different so
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what you would want to do is compare
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maybe an anthem versus a mythos versus
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an ek or something which have that same
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technology now when you compare those
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three there might be some slight
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variations
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in those the db level or the noise that
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they're going to be making between the
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models
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but overall when you look at what coffee
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is about it's about the theatre and the
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experience of coffee and the noises it's
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the steam one going off it's the bashing
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of the handle on the nock tube it's the
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grinder going off
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now if i walk into a cafe and i don't
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hear a grinder going off i start to
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think
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that that is not fresh ground coffee and
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it might be stale and sitting inside
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those dosing hoppers on the front and i
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don't drink that kind of coffee we all
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know that coffee dries out so quickly so
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hearing a grinder go off all the time
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from a customer's perspective is
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actually a positive you know at barista
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is making sure that at that moment in
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time they're getting the right grind and
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it's it's freshly ground for you to
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enjoy the espresso the best you possibly
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can you can order the grinders in black
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or white we only ever have white because
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it suits our brand and it looks nice and
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crisp and clean
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and you can see up on the hopper here we
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do have some awesome masking tape
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now we've got our recipe on here how
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much to to grind in
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and out and our times that we're looking
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for in our yields
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and we've got a little sticky date there
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which basically we have a counter of how
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many bags we use per day here in the bar
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so you're going to have to organize your
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own masking tape to track that it
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doesn't come with the anthem so thanks
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anthem for producing a grinder that we
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love we really enjoy it you've done a
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great job and over time you have
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definitely made some of the more modern
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uh changes for safety
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and
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technology with the metal sensing to
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start the grind there's some progression
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that's happened over the years and we
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really appreciate you guys focusing on
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making a better grinder so price where
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does it sit it's between the three to
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four thousand dollar mark depending on
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where you are around the world
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the dosing plates i think about 150 as
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an additional extra if you buy from us
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we will make sure they're included if
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that's something you ask for uh the
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dosing pots these are the rhinos they're
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available on our store as well for about
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25 bucks and you can get the akr luna
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scales as well which fit beautifully in
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here
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if you're looking at this as a full
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option just a bit of rubber as well
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just stops the scales from sliding
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around so
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we'd recommend getting a bit of that
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if you've got any questions hey guys
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leave in the comments below we would
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love to answer those for you around
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these grinders thanks very much for
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watching we'll catch you next time
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cheers
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