--- product_id: 1375839 title: "Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder" brand: "rancilio" price: "£33.30" currency: GBP in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1375839-rancilio-rocky-espresso-coffee-grinder store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # 50mm burrs 0.65lb hopper 166W motor Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder **Brand:** rancilio **Price:** £33.30 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > ☕ Elevate Your Espresso Game! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder by rancilio - **How much does it cost?** £33.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1375839-rancilio-rocky-espresso-coffee-grinder) ## Best For - rancilio enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted rancilio brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Brew Like a Pro:** Experience café-quality espresso at home with commercial-grade 50mm grinding burrs. - • **Quality Assurance:** Each unit is factory tested, ensuring you receive the best coffee experience. - • **Perfectly Portioned:** Grind directly into your porta filter for mess-free convenience. - • **Whisper-Quiet Operation:** Enjoy your morning grind with a powerful yet quiet 166-watt motor. - • **Customizable Grind Settings:** Easily adjust your grind size for the perfect brew every time. ## Overview The Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder features 50mm commercial-grade grinding burrs and a powerful 166-watt motor, designed for quiet operation. With a tinted hopper that holds up to 0.65lb of coffee beans and simple variable grinder adjustment control, this grinder is perfect for both novice and experienced coffee enthusiasts. Each unit is factory tested with real coffee beans, ensuring quality and performance. ## Description Perfect companion to the Rancilio Silvia espresso machine. The Rocky SD is burr coffee grinder with 50mm plate grinding burrs found in entry-level commercial grinders. Capable of grinding up to 7.7lbs per hour the Rocky SD will be sure to keep up with your needs. The Rocky SD features a metal removable fork to hold your porta filter in place. Grinds directly into your porta filter. The motor of the Rocky SD is a 166-watt direct drive motor that is extremely powerful. Spinning at 1725 RPM's. This powerful grinder is quiet during operation. Rocky SD features simple controls. Change the grind setting with a simple unlock of the lever and a quick spin of the bean hopper. It can grind coffee to a fine powder or course grind in seconds. The tinted bean hopper of the Rocky SD keeps just over 1/2 a pound of whole bean coffee fresh and ready to grind on-demand. Review: The Zen of "the perfect expresso shot" - You're frustrated! Disillusioned! Stymied! All I want is a "Perfect Expresso" in my own kitchen. How difficult can this be? Want the answer? Read on.... 1. Ok, this Rocky simply blows my mind. What a fabulous & quiet coffee grinder. 2. First, I have to laugh at those who "complain" that their grinder isn't clean. There are coffee grinds in my machine they exclaim! Malarkey. Yes, there are fine remnants of ground beans on both the inside, the outside & the hopper. This is like complaining to a flood victim that your faucet is dripping...ha. As you go through the process of disking in your machine, you WILL get coffee grinds on your table, on your floor and on your hands...there will be coffee grinds everywhere. Good, you have been inoculated, read on. 3. Thank you Seattle Coffee Gear for FedExing my grinder with tons of Styrofoam fingerlings that protected my precious cargo. It arrived in a big box which the FedEx agent said, "there's a whole lot of something in this big box and a whole lot of nothing". Great packing job Seattle Coffee Gear. Kudos to you. Hat tip! 4. Do not fill up the hopper! The fine grain size can only be adjusted when the hopper & grinder are empty. You will thank me for this advice. 5. The two grinding surfaces have to be rezero'd when changing setting, relocating to someone else's house or having been sitting in storage. On an empty grinder, simply turn the setting back to zero then over to your desired setting number. 6. Do not change settings unless you empty your grinder of all loose beans AND have emptied the beans in the grinding chamber itself. Yes, that means after you lift and invert the entire machine, then you MUST run the machine to grind any beans located at the grinding heads. 7. Finally, a left handed coffee grinder! Woohoo! After decades of abuse for being left handed, Rancilio finally decided to make a machine to frustrate right handed people so that they can appreciate the plight of lefties. The grind button on at the bottom left face that can only be accessed with your left hand. Thank you Rancilio, thank you. So far there's two left handed only devices: the Rocky and the 1911! 8. The portafilter holder get in the way. Beats me how this is supposed to work. Holds the portafilter too high such that your mountain peak of grinds backs up inside of the elephant nozzolla that funnels the grinds from the machine to your portafilter. I hold the portafilter stationary with my right hand. 9. In my photo, please strain to see the finest setting of grounds adjacent to a brand new nickel (that's $0.05 cents to those outside the USA). Oh my god, the grinds feel like talcum powder. I'd never known that coffee could be ground this fine. I guess this is for Greek style coffee. Haven't got a clue what's Greek style coffee. I valiantly tried to take a photo to show you how microscopic the particles are as they sit on the face of a nickel. I'd be the first to admit that the talcum-like coffee clumps so it's really difficult to make out a single grind particle. If you strain your eyes to NOT look at the particles but rather at the empty spaces...look for dust! That's the ground size. Truly amazing. This is why the Rocky is such a fine instrument. Yes, I just compared a coffee grinder to a laser surgical tool! 10. I bought (and highly recommend) The Brim Expresso Machine. The reason that I bring this up is because it automatically sets the time an extraction. I previously did not have that feature on my machine. If you are not a PRO, then I will strongly suggest that you will be better off buying The Brim or similar Expresso Machine prior to buying a Rocky. Why? Because you need to reduce the number of adjustable variable...or you will drop to your knees in a puddle of tears when your heartfelt journey for the coffee chalis turns to total frustration. 11. Buy a stainless steel tamper. Again,to reduce variables, you must find ways to have seamless, easy consistency. Tricks like this are what it takes. 12. Buy a big bag of coffee beans...er, buy two bags. You will need them. A quick trick is to survey all of the dozen different types of beans in the grocery store hopper. Yes, do not buy prepackaged... You will see one or two that look glossy. That's oil. That's good. That's flavor. That's usually French or Italian roast. Buy it. 13. Another big, Big, BIG TIP! You need to reduce variables, so hunt for expresso machines that have a PRESSURE GAUGE. The Brim has two ranges on the gauge, one for beginners and one for you. :-) The beginner's range is a low range to be used for beginners who use the portafilter that only has a single needle sized hole at the exit where the extracted coffee flows out of the portafilter into your cup. The tiny single hole allows a neophyte to "automatically" pressurized the portafilter. This required BIGGER grind sizes and thus it is more forgiving for the beginner. What is the beginner looking for? The beginner is looking for a grain size: too big a grain and the expresso is watery without flavor and complexity; too small a grain size and the expresso is underextracted with the portafilter behaving as if it was a solid block of coffee with no interstitial spaces for the water to flow. 14. Bitter expresso. Bad. You know that you've done it. We ALL have. You want to be able to recognize bitterness. Bitterness is NOT a lack of sweetness or sugar. Train your taste buds to clearly recognize bitterness. 15. Perfect Expresso. Until you actually pull your FIRST PERFECT SHOT, you will think that all expresso is bitter. No, a perfect shot is actually sweet tasting...no really. Wax on...wax off! 16. Just to review, tamp at the same force, look at the pressure gauge, have an automatic timer built into your machine. Ok, now...let's go! Time to pull shots. This is when you are going to get grinds on the floor, grinds on your table, and grinds on your shoes. (Remember the complaints about a dusting of grinds on a new machine...ha, ha) 17. Goldilocks & the 3 Bears. One bed too hard and one bed too soft. Remember, you cannot change the grind number setting u less the beans have been emptied from not only the hopper(visible), but also the grinding plates(not visible). So, after emptying, you must run the machine (the left-handed machine if you've forgotten). 18. At first, I would save the "bad samples" because that was real money that bought those beans. Now, I throw it down the drain. So, will you...eventually. 19. If you haven't figured it out yet, that wonderful talcum powder feel of the coffee grounds will be too fine for "a perfect extraction". Sad but true. 20. I hope that you found this helpful as I learned it the hard way...perhaps, that's how learning is supposed to be? But it has been a 3 year random-walk journey through a game of thrones. Certainly, Rocky is an amazingly accurate tool with the power of a Samurai sword honed by a master swordssmith, refined through decades of use. Rocky is AMAZINGLY QUIET...stunningly so. I put this last so that you'd leave feeling the peaceful Zen of "the perfect expresso shot". Rocky is the best. Buy it! Buy it now! UPDATE: June 10, 2019 I never knew that the simple pleasure of extracting "The Perfect Expresso" would be as satisfying as discovering "The Holy Grail". I adjusted the grind size as follows: 8, 10, 20, 15, 12, 13. For my beans, 13 created a gorgeous crema...unlike any that I had previously ever seen in my kitchen. A truly momentous experience akin to reaching out and touching the face of God. Unbelievable...I am truly stunned! UPDATE: June 14, 2019 1. It just gets better and better. I believe that this is "The Best Italian Import" brought to the US. 2. Just when you think that you have mastered the perfect pull, you will find that you will want to make finely tuned adjustments to "the rate at which the pressure increases to optimal peak pressures". So, this is what I did and what you:re likely to do. Read on. You will change the grind setting by 1. Great so you do the expresso pull. It's good. So, you make another and it's "Too Fine" which makes the pressure rise too quickly and ultimately go much higher in peak pressure. You will also note that your expresso shot glass isn't as full because there was less total flow because the pressure was too high because the grind was too small. Why? Because you did not empty the grinder and there was a shots worth of grinds in the 90 degree plastic necked hopper and in between the 2 grinding surfaces. Correction: empty, then run the "left-handed" machine until completely empty. 2. As you may have gleaned from my sneaking it into my above comments, I highly recommend buying a glass expresso shot glass. It will be a visible alarm system for when things are subtlety changing but would have otherwise gone unnoticed. 2b. There are a number of glass expresso shot glasses on the market. All of mine just happen to be the insulating double walled type. In my humble opinion, your experience may differ, is that double walled insulating glasses DO NOT WORK. That is to say that the shot does not stay warmer any longer than without a double wall. 2c. These double walled insulating expresso shot glasses actually vary in capacity even if to my eye, they all more or less look the same. This morning, I poured water from one full shot into another and it was only 2/3rds full. 2d. So, if you are going for a pull based on X number of seconds, then your shot glass could mislead you into thinking you were either there or not there depending... Furthermore, if you have a self timed expresso machine that you (like me) haven't made any adjustments to the time because you were "wisely reducing variables", as on my wonderful Brim machine, then you would be "carefully calibrating your eyes" to how full the glass is when the pull is over. But if one glass varies from another by 2/3rds, then you have self created a misleading step in your repertoire. Consistency requires minimizing your variables. 2e. First, I cannot believe I got to 2e when referring to just a simple shot glass. But here is more for you to assimilate into your "wax on, wax off" practice. "Crema"! Crema will look different for each of the Goldilocks Cases. But if you use a non-transparent cup, then you'll be clueless. So, start using a glass expresso shot glass and watch how your skill improves. Really! 2f. If you are making expresso for yourself, then you can do this. Otherwise, you can figure a way. If you are making Americanos or Cappucinos or whatever...take a sip from your shot glass. Teach yourself to recognize the bitterness from an overkill. Again, your skills will improve greatly. 2g. Occasionally, just appreciate a perfect expresso...straight. You deserve it. You earned it. You are worth it. Enjoy. Review: Stop skimping and make some great coffee! - I love coffee. Its a several times a day thing for me. I appreciate good beans and have learned that next to that the grinder is the item that brings out all that a bean can be. Most under $150 grinders cannot produce espresso grinds, and certainly cannot cover Turkish. Well welcome to the Rocky, a solid built tank of a grinder that delivers a knock out punch to any kind of coffee you want to make. From french press to Turkish, this grinder has you covered. Its solid built and will seeming last a lifetime. The pros: * Its built like a brick house, solid sturdy, and with high quality. You wont be buying another one again so consider it a good investment. * Low rpm motor wont heat the beans when grinding * Easy to access grind chamber for cleaning * its adjustable for any kind of grind you can think of (I don't agree with others that say no french press, its very capable of a course grind) * Fits under the counter, big but not unruly Cons: * You shell out $350 bucks to get this beast. * Some coffee remains in the grind chamber, so waste a little at the beginning of each grind to clean (discard) or tap the back of the unit at the end of the grind cycle to clear out old grinds. * Takes some experimentation to figure out the right setting for your machine, and that setting will change when you change beans to some degree. * Beans can get stuck in the screw holes inside the bean hopper. Silly but can be annoying. Remedied by flipping upside down or stuffing the holes with something. Id like to see Rancillo provide caps for this instead. If you are sick of replacing grinders every few years due to short lifespan, and want a machine that can make any type of grind, this is the one for you. And for the money, its best in class, some other Italian makers put you into the 500 price range and up. ## Features - 50mm commercial grade grinding burrs. Grinds directly into porta filter for simple operation - Powerful 166-watt direct drive quiet operation motor. All units are tested prior packaging which might leave a small trace of coffee residue. Please refer the video under product images for overview - Tinted hopper with a 0.65lb capacity. Please check the FAQ section under the Product Details - Simple variable grinder adjustment control. For Trouble Shooting Steps refer on the page 32 in the user manual - ATTENTION: Each unit is factory tested with real coffee beans and some coffee powder may still be present upon unboxing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00H1OUW24 | | Best Sellers Rank | #1,262,646 in Home & Kitchen ( See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen ) #255 in Burr Coffee Grinders | | Brand | Rancilio | | Brand Name | Rancilio | | Capacity | 0.65 Pounds | | Color | Black and Stainless Steel | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 474 Reviews | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00798527629711, 00854075005022 | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 9.8"L x 4.7"W x 13.8"H | | Item Weight | 15.4 Pounds | | Manufacturer | Rancilio | | Manufacturer Part Number | RAN-ROCKYNODOSE | | Manufacturer Warranty Description | 1 YR Parts & Labor | | Material | Stainless Steel | | Material Type | Stainless Steel | | Model Number | HSD-ROC-SD | | Product Dimensions | 9.8"L x 4.7"W x 13.8"H | | Recommended Uses For Product | Commercial | | Style | coffee grinder | | Style Name | coffee grinder | | UPC | 798837984784 696750550966 798527629711 000000002042 854075005022 643749843363 | | Wattage | 166 watts | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Rancilio - **Color:** Black and Stainless Steel - **Item Weight:** 15.4 Pounds - **Material:** Stainless Steel - **Style:** coffee grinder ## Images ![Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61LRUxapwlL.jpg) ![Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31dcmjTGKjL.jpg) ![Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41y+zfb-u8L.jpg) ![Rancilio Rocky Espresso Coffee Grinder - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41td9sMlinL.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Did anyone else's Rocky arrive with grinds all over the outside of the machine and packaging? I know there is a slip of paper that says there was some factory testing and that there may be some grinds left over; however, ours came with a large amount of grinds all over the inside and outside of the machine, as well a…** A: I just returned the Rocky after openig the package, and also seeing coffee grinds in the hopper. I was aware that there would be some in there because the slip of paper included inside indicated that this was due to factory testing and all machines could possibly have residue. I did NOT return this item because of the grinds but I did return because I realized it was not going to work for our small coffee bar. I neatly packaged everything in original packaging. When it was returned, I was told it was in "used" condition and would only receive a 50% credit as it appeared to have an "excessive amount of grinds in it". I am appalled at this treatment and am contesting the "used" statement that the are accusing me of. I never even plugged in the machine, I just opened it, placed it on the counter then repackaged it. Buyer Beware. **Q: Is it 50Hz or 60Hz ?** A: The sticker on the bottom of my Rancilio Rocky reads: 110V 140W 50/60Hz. Though I'm not an electrician, it looks like either 50 or 60Hz is acceptable. **Q: How much clearance is there below the spout, meaning how tall of a vessel can I fit underneath to catch grounds if not using a portafilter?** A: Hi Timothy. If you would like to fit something larger underneath the spout, you can remove the metal support bar for the portafilter that is underneath the spout. (This is quite easy to do). Otherwise, even with the support, you can fit an Aeropress or shallow dish in between if you tilt the vessel. Hope that helps. **Q: What is the recommended grind setting for drip and french press just so i know where to kind of start from?** A: I really don't think there are any recommended settings. You just need to try some settings and see what works. Having said that, we set ours around 5 for espresso and 10 for drip. It's a function of the beans and your personal preferences. Have fun experimenting! ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Zen of "the perfect expresso shot" *by A***R on June 9, 2019* You're frustrated! Disillusioned! Stymied! All I want is a "Perfect Expresso" in my own kitchen. How difficult can this be? Want the answer? Read on.... 1. Ok, this Rocky simply blows my mind. What a fabulous & quiet coffee grinder. 2. First, I have to laugh at those who "complain" that their grinder isn't clean. There are coffee grinds in my machine they exclaim! Malarkey. Yes, there are fine remnants of ground beans on both the inside, the outside & the hopper. This is like complaining to a flood victim that your faucet is dripping...ha. As you go through the process of disking in your machine, you WILL get coffee grinds on your table, on your floor and on your hands...there will be coffee grinds everywhere. Good, you have been inoculated, read on. 3. Thank you Seattle Coffee Gear for FedExing my grinder with tons of Styrofoam fingerlings that protected my precious cargo. It arrived in a big box which the FedEx agent said, "there's a whole lot of something in this big box and a whole lot of nothing". Great packing job Seattle Coffee Gear. Kudos to you. Hat tip! 4. Do not fill up the hopper! The fine grain size can only be adjusted when the hopper & grinder are empty. You will thank me for this advice. 5. The two grinding surfaces have to be rezero'd when changing setting, relocating to someone else's house or having been sitting in storage. On an empty grinder, simply turn the setting back to zero then over to your desired setting number. 6. Do not change settings unless you empty your grinder of all loose beans AND have emptied the beans in the grinding chamber itself. Yes, that means after you lift and invert the entire machine, then you MUST run the machine to grind any beans located at the grinding heads. 7. Finally, a left handed coffee grinder! Woohoo! After decades of abuse for being left handed, Rancilio finally decided to make a machine to frustrate right handed people so that they can appreciate the plight of lefties. The grind button on at the bottom left face that can only be accessed with your left hand. Thank you Rancilio, thank you. So far there's two left handed only devices: the Rocky and the 1911! 8. The portafilter holder get in the way. Beats me how this is supposed to work. Holds the portafilter too high such that your mountain peak of grinds backs up inside of the elephant nozzolla that funnels the grinds from the machine to your portafilter. I hold the portafilter stationary with my right hand. 9. In my photo, please strain to see the finest setting of grounds adjacent to a brand new nickel (that's $0.05 cents to those outside the USA). Oh my god, the grinds feel like talcum powder. I'd never known that coffee could be ground this fine. I guess this is for Greek style coffee. Haven't got a clue what's Greek style coffee. I valiantly tried to take a photo to show you how microscopic the particles are as they sit on the face of a nickel. I'd be the first to admit that the talcum-like coffee clumps so it's really difficult to make out a single grind particle. If you strain your eyes to NOT look at the particles but rather at the empty spaces...look for dust! That's the ground size. Truly amazing. This is why the Rocky is such a fine instrument. Yes, I just compared a coffee grinder to a laser surgical tool! 10. I bought (and highly recommend) The Brim Expresso Machine. The reason that I bring this up is because it automatically sets the time an extraction. I previously did not have that feature on my machine. If you are not a PRO, then I will strongly suggest that you will be better off buying The Brim or similar Expresso Machine prior to buying a Rocky. Why? Because you need to reduce the number of adjustable variable...or you will drop to your knees in a puddle of tears when your heartfelt journey for the coffee chalis turns to total frustration. 11. Buy a stainless steel tamper. Again,to reduce variables, you must find ways to have seamless, easy consistency. Tricks like this are what it takes. 12. Buy a big bag of coffee beans...er, buy two bags. You will need them. A quick trick is to survey all of the dozen different types of beans in the grocery store hopper. Yes, do not buy prepackaged... You will see one or two that look glossy. That's oil. That's good. That's flavor. That's usually French or Italian roast. Buy it. 13. Another big, Big, BIG TIP! You need to reduce variables, so hunt for expresso machines that have a PRESSURE GAUGE. The Brim has two ranges on the gauge, one for beginners and one for you. :-) The beginner's range is a low range to be used for beginners who use the portafilter that only has a single needle sized hole at the exit where the extracted coffee flows out of the portafilter into your cup. The tiny single hole allows a neophyte to "automatically" pressurized the portafilter. This required BIGGER grind sizes and thus it is more forgiving for the beginner. What is the beginner looking for? The beginner is looking for a grain size: too big a grain and the expresso is watery without flavor and complexity; too small a grain size and the expresso is underextracted with the portafilter behaving as if it was a solid block of coffee with no interstitial spaces for the water to flow. 14. Bitter expresso. Bad. You know that you've done it. We ALL have. You want to be able to recognize bitterness. Bitterness is NOT a lack of sweetness or sugar. Train your taste buds to clearly recognize bitterness. 15. Perfect Expresso. Until you actually pull your FIRST PERFECT SHOT, you will think that all expresso is bitter. No, a perfect shot is actually sweet tasting...no really. Wax on...wax off! 16. Just to review, tamp at the same force, look at the pressure gauge, have an automatic timer built into your machine. Ok, now...let's go! Time to pull shots. This is when you are going to get grinds on the floor, grinds on your table, and grinds on your shoes. (Remember the complaints about a dusting of grinds on a new machine...ha, ha) 17. Goldilocks & the 3 Bears. One bed too hard and one bed too soft. Remember, you cannot change the grind number setting u less the beans have been emptied from not only the hopper(visible), but also the grinding plates(not visible). So, after emptying, you must run the machine (the left-handed machine if you've forgotten). 18. At first, I would save the "bad samples" because that was real money that bought those beans. Now, I throw it down the drain. So, will you...eventually. 19. If you haven't figured it out yet, that wonderful talcum powder feel of the coffee grounds will be too fine for "a perfect extraction". Sad but true. 20. I hope that you found this helpful as I learned it the hard way...perhaps, that's how learning is supposed to be? But it has been a 3 year random-walk journey through a game of thrones. Certainly, Rocky is an amazingly accurate tool with the power of a Samurai sword honed by a master swordssmith, refined through decades of use. Rocky is AMAZINGLY QUIET...stunningly so. I put this last so that you'd leave feeling the peaceful Zen of "the perfect expresso shot". Rocky is the best. Buy it! Buy it now! UPDATE: June 10, 2019 I never knew that the simple pleasure of extracting "The Perfect Expresso" would be as satisfying as discovering "The Holy Grail". I adjusted the grind size as follows: 8, 10, 20, 15, 12, 13. For my beans, 13 created a gorgeous crema...unlike any that I had previously ever seen in my kitchen. A truly momentous experience akin to reaching out and touching the face of God. Unbelievable...I am truly stunned! UPDATE: June 14, 2019 1. It just gets better and better. I believe that this is "The Best Italian Import" brought to the US. 2. Just when you think that you have mastered the perfect pull, you will find that you will want to make finely tuned adjustments to "the rate at which the pressure increases to optimal peak pressures". So, this is what I did and what you:re likely to do. Read on. You will change the grind setting by 1. Great so you do the expresso pull. It's good. So, you make another and it's "Too Fine" which makes the pressure rise too quickly and ultimately go much higher in peak pressure. You will also note that your expresso shot glass isn't as full because there was less total flow because the pressure was too high because the grind was too small. Why? Because you did not empty the grinder and there was a shots worth of grinds in the 90 degree plastic necked hopper and in between the 2 grinding surfaces. Correction: empty, then run the "left-handed" machine until completely empty. 2. As you may have gleaned from my sneaking it into my above comments, I highly recommend buying a glass expresso shot glass. It will be a visible alarm system for when things are subtlety changing but would have otherwise gone unnoticed. 2b. There are a number of glass expresso shot glasses on the market. All of mine just happen to be the insulating double walled type. In my humble opinion, your experience may differ, is that double walled insulating glasses DO NOT WORK. That is to say that the shot does not stay warmer any longer than without a double wall. 2c. These double walled insulating expresso shot glasses actually vary in capacity even if to my eye, they all more or less look the same. This morning, I poured water from one full shot into another and it was only 2/3rds full. 2d. So, if you are going for a pull based on X number of seconds, then your shot glass could mislead you into thinking you were either there or not there depending... Furthermore, if you have a self timed expresso machine that you (like me) haven't made any adjustments to the time because you were "wisely reducing variables", as on my wonderful Brim machine, then you would be "carefully calibrating your eyes" to how full the glass is when the pull is over. But if one glass varies from another by 2/3rds, then you have self created a misleading step in your repertoire. Consistency requires minimizing your variables. 2e. First, I cannot believe I got to 2e when referring to just a simple shot glass. But here is more for you to assimilate into your "wax on, wax off" practice. "Crema"! Crema will look different for each of the Goldilocks Cases. But if you use a non-transparent cup, then you'll be clueless. So, start using a glass expresso shot glass and watch how your skill improves. Really! 2f. If you are making expresso for yourself, then you can do this. Otherwise, you can figure a way. If you are making Americanos or Cappucinos or whatever...take a sip from your shot glass. Teach yourself to recognize the bitterness from an overkill. Again, your skills will improve greatly. 2g. Occasionally, just appreciate a perfect expresso...straight. You deserve it. You earned it. You are worth it. Enjoy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stop skimping and make some great coffee! *by N***E on August 13, 2013* I love coffee. Its a several times a day thing for me. I appreciate good beans and have learned that next to that the grinder is the item that brings out all that a bean can be. Most under $150 grinders cannot produce espresso grinds, and certainly cannot cover Turkish. Well welcome to the Rocky, a solid built tank of a grinder that delivers a knock out punch to any kind of coffee you want to make. From french press to Turkish, this grinder has you covered. Its solid built and will seeming last a lifetime. The pros: * Its built like a brick house, solid sturdy, and with high quality. You wont be buying another one again so consider it a good investment. * Low rpm motor wont heat the beans when grinding * Easy to access grind chamber for cleaning * its adjustable for any kind of grind you can think of (I don't agree with others that say no french press, its very capable of a course grind) * Fits under the counter, big but not unruly Cons: * You shell out $350 bucks to get this beast. * Some coffee remains in the grind chamber, so waste a little at the beginning of each grind to clean (discard) or tap the back of the unit at the end of the grind cycle to clear out old grinds. * Takes some experimentation to figure out the right setting for your machine, and that setting will change when you change beans to some degree. * Beans can get stuck in the screw holes inside the bean hopper. Silly but can be annoying. Remedied by flipping upside down or stuffing the holes with something. Id like to see Rancillo provide caps for this instead. If you are sick of replacing grinders every few years due to short lifespan, and want a machine that can make any type of grind, this is the one for you. And for the money, its best in class, some other Italian makers put you into the 500 price range and up. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Best Home Grinder Short of Going Commercial *by L***E on December 29, 2017* I traded up from a Baratza, which served me well for 4 years. I love this grinder. I only use it for pour-over, have dialed it in to setting number 29, but it's a powerhouse. Relatively quiet, but I don't really care about that. This is a disk burr, not a conical burr, grinder, and it produces consistent grinds at whatever consistency you're searching for. Yes, it's primarily designed for espresso - and, boy, can you dial it down to talcum powder, if that's your coffee ambition -- but it's so solid, all metal, and it's not as big a footprint on the counter as some say. If you're looking to upgrade from a conical burr grinder -- and, God forbid you use a spice grinder! -- this machine will last you. I tweaked a couple things. There are three screws that hold the hopper down. They're inset. Beans get lodged in there. You can turn the grinder upside down and they'll come out, but I just put tiny squares of duct tape over the holes. I only grind what I'm needing. I don't leave beans in the hopper. After a day's grinding -- two coffees, nada mas -- I turn the machine upside down and empty it of any stray beans. When I do this, some grinds will come out of the chute. Which is good b/c it means the next morning my Rancilio is cleared out and ready to go. Some people might find that excessive, or a hassle, but I don't. I love this grinder. Would never go back to a conical burr, esp. one with a lot of hard plastic parts. 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