J-Ultra

The best solution is to buy a grinder and grind the coffee yourself, it is really the best advice I can give you, if you are on a budget you can buy a manual grinder like the K6 or for a little more a 1Zespresso J ultra on Amazon

unfortunately, you kinda really do need a grinder. i tried doing preground early on and it’s just not the same at all. you can get it to be fine but it’ll be like getting an espresso from a mcdonalds. if you’re looking for a super cheap (relatively speaking) way to get into things i would go with wi

I picked up a 1ZPresso J-Ultra for €159 during Amazon Prime Days. I’d heard it’s one of the best manual grinders for espresso, so I had to give it a shot. It takes about a minute to grind, but honestly, I enjoy the hands-on feel, it’s all part of the ritual for me. Since I only make coffee for mysel

I greatly prefer my 1zpresso J-ultra hand grinder to an electric, but I’m not too lazy to turn a handle for 30 sec before having a coffee. Or I guess I’m just not so busy that I can’t spare 30 sec. 🤷‍♂️

Big spectrum indeed. (I know you know all this, but I liked to add from here for OP.) I have two grinders, 1Zpresso J-Ultra and Mazzer Omega X Soft Burrs. You can’t go dead slow on a hand grinder anyways, you need muscle through it and try to keep a reasonable rpm. In my J-Ultra some dark roast are

Absolutely not unless you’re pulling multiple consecutive shots. I have a 1zpresso J-Ultra, which I understand is one of the best hand grinders. Grinding takes some elbow grease, but less than a minute. The resulting espresso with good beans and proper tamping has a thick layer of crema with no chan

I have no idea of the pricing in Poland, but the 1Zpresso J-Ultra is a hand-grinding star; and the KinGrinder K6 manual grinder well-regarded for its quality/output/price value ratio.

My espresso setup started with a sage barista pro, then got j-ultra, then flair 58+ then replaced my j-ultra for the df83v. Moving from the sage built-in grinder to j-ultra was a huge improvement (say 50% better) . Moving from the sage to the flair was another big imrpovement (say 20%). The switch f

It's an over-simplification to simply say the grinder is more important. I'd say they are equally important. A crappy $100 espresso machine will cause just as many problems as a crappy $100 coffee grinder. Also, if you are doing light roasts, upgrading from a $300 machine to a $1,000 machine with ad

Don’t go for the hand grinder if you don’t like coffee, otherwise, you’ll be fine. I have an encore espresso and a 1zpresso j uktra, I love them both but unless I’m just making coffee for the sake of waking up, I’ll always find grinding by hand worth it. My only difficulty is that I have to calibrat