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Originally Posted by Da Nag
Two suggestions:
On the low end, Saeco makes an excellent burr grinder for the $$. Costco has it on sale right now - it's usually well over $100.
We retired our Saeco from daily duty a while back, and use it on the boat - still works great. We replaced it with a Mini Mazzer, which is complete overkill for anyone other than true espresso snobs...but you can't buy anything finer for home, if you really want the best. I'll let you Google the price for the rude surprise... |
I'm not sure about the Saeco, but with Costco, things become easy. If I hate it, they'll take it back, and it doesn't take any real effort on my part. (Except for having to navigate through the store to the customer service counter when the place is full of inattentive mothers that are each dragging seven kids around with them. What is it with those people? Don't they know when to stop? LOL!)
And the Mini Mazzer I am familiar with. They're definitely cool, but I would probably get the "look" from my wife if I ordered one of those. She gave me the "look" when I tried to buy an $80 pair of sunglasses the other day, and $80 on sunglasses would have been the all time least amount I ever spent on a pair, and I am famous for using them for years on end. (My current RayBans from back in the B&L days are going on eight years old!)
I love my wife, but she still struggles with the concept of buying the best thing that we can afford when it isn't also the cheapest thing on the shelf. I really have to work to sell her on some things. Oddly enough, I
never get the "look" when I'm buying cars, parts, or tools, but I do get the "look" over a pair of comparatively cheap sunglasses and even over a gallon of paint latex interior paint. Eh? It's a little unpredictable.
