Santos French Coffee Espresso Spice Grinder No 4 Commercial Made in France., US $1900 – Picture 0

Santos French Coffee Espresso Spice Grinder No 4 Commercial Made in France., US $1900 – Picture 1

Santos French Coffee Espresso Spice Grinder No 4 Commercial Made in France., US $1900 – Picture 2

Santos French Coffee Espresso Spice Grinder No 4 Commercial Made In France.

US $1900

Glenelg, Maryland, United States
Mar 8th

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Santos French Coffee Espresso Spice Grinder No 4 Commercial Made in France. Was used in a temporary Church. Will need a thorough cleaning The burrs (grinders) will need to cleaned, or sharpened, or replaced because this unit hasn't been used in a few years. Unit is big and heavy @50pounds (boxed and filling combined) The unit has scratches, and one of the top plastic grinder hoppers has a crack, and both hoppers have scratches. Thanks for watching, and please view my other auctions for some more Goodies. From a blog CONS: 1. Not much support. The grinder is an orphan of Santos, which is a large French company that makes various commercial kitchen products. 2. Burrs are hard to get from Santos and cost about $100/set. Comparable burrs for other similar sized grinders are a third that price. 3. I found an alternative set that fit one side of the No. 4 that were not expensive, but I don't know how well they grind since I am still using the OEM burrs that came with it (on the opposite side). I have used them to grind dried mushrooms and they work well for that purpose. 4. Doubled headed grinders need burrs that are cut in the opposite directions. 5. Won't fit under most counter cupboards without chopping. See above. Most people won't want to do what I did. 6. You can grind directly into a basket, as you turn it with your fingers. 7. Grinds are fluffy with no clumping. PROS: 1. Very fast change over from espresso > drip grinds. Traditional espresso grinders take time to change over and back. The Santos does it on a second. 2. However, the fast change over means that you cannot dial in the grinder on a micrometer basis. Therefore you need to find a close setting and then fine tune by dose, not by tweaking the grinder. 3. Pass through design lends itself to single dosing very nicely and grind retention varies from 0-2 grams. Why, the variance, I don't know. 4. When I took it apart a few weeks ago, it needed very little cleaning. Basically, it was clean. I suspect that because I go from espresso to drip frequently, the drip grind serves to keep the grinder clean. I'm not sure though. But it definitely is not a stale grind museum. 5. It is very fast. 10 grams/second. An espresso takes a couple seconds. 40 grams of drip takes about 4 seconds. 6. Not very noisy compared to most hopper grinders, the large conicals excepted. And it is so fast, noise isn't a problem anyway. 7. Built like a tank. And looks like a tank.

“It was used in a temporary Church and it was hardly used Will need a thorough cleaning and the burrs (grinders) will need to cleaned/sharpened/replaced because this unit hasn't been used in a few years. The unit has scratches, and one of the top plastic grinder hoppers has a crack, and both hoppers have scratches.”

Country/Region of Manufacture

France