Raf wrote:
It has a doser!
The grounds chute isn't positioned exactly underneath the burrs!
The bean hopper doesn't have a built-in scale...
doesn't come with a free mallet?
This does kind of raise the question as to whether we're aiming for the ultimate commercial or consumer grinder... A commercial grinder is probably going to need some kind of hopper... in which case the best thing would probably be to make it some kind of (air tight? vacuum?) "storage jar" as well... the idea being that you fix/clip/screw whichever hopper you need into place as and when you want to grind that particular bean/blend.
We probably need to come up with a different name for a doser as in fact we do want the grinder to be able to "dose" (actually measure the amount of grinds to use by either weight or volume) we just don't want some whirlygig-stale ground holder on the front, almost parallel to the burrs. We need something placed as vertical as possible (chute) underneath them and which retains the least amount of coffee possible.
That's three major faults we're trying to avoid in the TMC Supa Grinda Vaporware TM
Raf, I sent my 2000 Ecu deposit cheque by pigeon-post today, but sadly I forgot to sign the cheque, I'll send another by carrier pigeon as soon as the first pigeon makes it back