Thanks, Brent! Yes, Coffee Man does seem like he has a great sense of style 😄

Femobook is 8 microns per click like J Ultra, so in practice stepless. You can change battery on Femobook. The Millab is a bit more uncertain - here's what Timemore says: "Battery life is 5 years, you can purchase the battery circuit board with us, but we do not recommend replacing it yourself."

@@coffeechroniclerAnd therein lies the problem. I have a beard trimmer doomed to landfill because its battery is permanently dead, not replaceable and won’t run at high enough speed if I try to use it while plugged in. I’ll bet my J-MAX runs forever.

@@coffeechronicler Thank you for this. Let me ask, would the Femobook then for practical purposes be like a J-Max/J-Ultra, but with a motor? I already have the J-Max. I was considering the Mazzer Philos that’ll be coming out later this year as the steps are very small and nice and clicky. I’m blind so finding a quality electric stepped espresso capable grinder has been a rather arduous task. Stepless just wouldn’t work for my circumstances. Less than $400 for the Femobook is incredibly appealing. I’d have to imagine that the Philos would be a better quality grinder, but $800 better? I live in Southern California where blackouts and proactive power line shut offs before Santa Ana events is becoming more common, so while the battery thing feels a bit gimmicky, something like that would be a nice plus to have.

Grinding at an angle is interesting idea. Perhaps it's possible to unlock even more clarity that way.

@@coffeechronicler well, the idea is to reduce the production of fines that are caused by beans getting forced against each other as they gravity feed. I find that it also leaves the chaff in larger "flakes" that are easier to blow away. Does this make better coffee? TBH I'm not sure, but I do it anyway 😀

I don't have first hand experience with Lagom Mini. But assuming that it performs exactly like the MHW-3Bomber Sniper.... then they are in the same league and especially Femobook tastes very similar.

I compared it against the K Ultra, and it was very similar, maybe just a touch less clear. Maybe I'll do so more comparisons against A68.

@@coffeechronicler Considering that electric grinders generally produce more fines, it makes sense. It's quite exceptional that there's an electric grinder out there that's structurally closest to a hand mill and still retains the flavor profile of the K-Series. It seems to be a product that sits right between traditional electric grinders and hand mills, which really catches my interest.

Perhaps RV'ers are the ideal candidates? Apparently, that's big in the US.

May not make sense to you but might be a good option for camping or short weekend trips where you might be making coffee for a lot of people and need your hands free to do other prep.

Also makes it more accessible for people with arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome and other injuries.

I camp about 50 days a year in a small overlander. If I ever get a bigger camper, I'd definitely like something like this. But for now, it's too big.

Good point!

Femobook sounds similar to “you got to grind” in Chinese (Taiwan’s official language), hence the name, it has nothing to do with feminist. 😂