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You have to grind fresh to get that great tasting coffee at home and the Rancilio Rocky doserless burr grinder does a great job.
- Flat burrs, 50mm
- Power: 140 watts
- Burr speed: 1400rpm
- Hopper capacity: 300g
- Weight: 9kg
- Dimensions: 128w x 256d x 359h
- Stepped grind setting (50 settings)
- Colour: Black with brushed stainless steel
- Available also in the doser model (we recommend the doserless version for most people)
In store demonstration available on this model |
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rancilio-rocky |
| Stock |
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| Price |
$495.00 |
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Sean
says... 
On a crisp London morning four years ago, I wandered into Selfridges and laid down my hard earnt for a Gaggia Classic espresso machine.
I used my beloved Gaggia for 3 1/2 years, having 250 grams of coffee beans ground once a week by a 14 year old polish illegal immigrant working at my local Whitards of Chelsea (Warsaw).
This warm ground coffee would be put into a plastic container and left in the fridge.
Believed I was the bee’s knees, did I.
Strangers besieged by ill fitting trench coats would occasionally shuffle by, muttering "buy your own grinder, “buy your own grinder”, “you don’t know what your missing, have you seen a grown man naked…. etc".
Not being one to take advice from the decamped at the best of times, and having seen glimpses of my own form naked. I dismissed their mutterings with pure logic; "What household grinder would get anywhere near the commercial grinder used at my local Whitard of Warsaw"
It was only on my return to Sydney that Jet-Black, via one if their Barrister courses (highly recommended), advised the flavor of the coffee is largely lost 3 hours after grind, and that the heat I used to feel coming from my Whitard grind was also sucking flavor from my sacred blend. In a roundabout way they were saying Gaggia Boy, you’re an idiot – buy a grinder fool!
Crestfallen, as I know a lot of thing or two about a thing or two (De niro), I trekked into unknown grinder land - and emerged 2 months later with a shiny sturdy Rocky.
The Rocky is apply named as it is a street fighter that cannot be beaten. Just like Adriaaaaan, you too will find yourself panting from the back of a boxing coliseum "Love you Rocky"
From the first grind, the improvement of flavors was obvious. As I dialed the grind in to suit the beans (make sure the coffee beans were roasted within 28 days), the shots became redder and redder (think Ayres rock).
The Rocky grinder has earnt its stripes, and deservers to sit proudly next to my Gaggia.
Pros:
• The build materials are first rate. Where you think there would be plastic, there is metal, where you thought there would be metal there is titanium - get the picture - its one heavy bit of kit.
• Their build quality is first rate. It’s put together by little old men in Italy, permanently bent over their wooden work benches.
• The grinder range (how coarse or fine you choose to grind your beans) is large.
• It does not heat the beans as it grinds them.
• Aesthetically pleasing.
• It produces a great grind. Wifey is pulling those reddish ochre shots with ease, and remember - it all starts with the grind baby, all starts with the grind.
Cons:
• Initial one off cost (steal the money from somebody, they don’t need it – you do. You must buy this grinder.
• Adrian’s beanie and horn rimmed glasses are not included.
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