Meanwhile, the ESP comes with the same 38-millimeter conical burrs found in the more espresso-oriented Baratza Virtuoso. While the adjustment collar on the original Encore is manufactured with injection-molded plastic, the Encore ESP’s collar is made of all metal. “You can be in an espresso’s range with four clicks, two clicks on either side, whereas with a regular, you don’t even have half a click either way and you’re out of range… What we wanted was resolution.” “It feels just like an Encore, but the world changes dramatically when you get into this range now,” said Anderson. The result is a much smaller change in grind size per click of the stepped mechanism, allowing more precise control for home baristas in dialing in espresso.

Year in Review: Home and Prosumer Coffee Grinders.Breville Acquires US Grinder Maker Baratza for $60 Million.Baratza Reinvents the Vario with the Vario+ and Vario-W+ Models.“So that’s how we achieve a macro and a micro with a simple mechanism, without cams and levers.”Īdded Anderson, “It turns out no one’s ever done anything like that, so we patented it.” “It’s a thread that then flattens out to 1/10 the slope of ,” Baratza Co-Founder Kyle Anderson told Daily Coffee News. The coarse end from settings 40-20 remains the same as the original Encore, while at settings 20-1 the screw-down adjustment collar’s helix angle levels out, resulting in less travel up or down as the collar turns. While the overall range of particle sizes from coarsest to finest remains the same, the Encore ESP includes a redesign to the adjustment collar that maintains the original Encore’s performance in coarser grinds for filter preparations while also providing adjustments in smaller increments at the finer end for espresso.

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Unveiled at last month’s Specialty Coffee Expo in Boston, the ESP version of the Encore includes a number of tweaks under the hood designed to improve espresso preparation, including a different burr set and a new system for finer resolution in the grind size mechanism. All images courtesy of Baratza.īellevue, Washington-based Baratza has lifted the curtain on a new espresso-focused take on its entry-level consumer grinder called the Encore ESP.

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