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Ascaso I-1/I-1D Espresso Grinder
Regular Price: $359.00-$409.00 US Dollars
Sale Price: $339.00-379.00 US Dollars
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Ascaso I-1/I-1D Espresso Grinder
Overview:
 The
line of coffee grinders from Ascaso can be described as
beautiful, colorful, and best of all, excellent grinding
machines. Ascaso has developed two versions of their coffee
and espresso grinder, one with a flat grinding wheel system
and one with a conical (cone shaped) grinding wheel. The
flat wheel grinder is called the I-1 Grinder and the conical
grinding wheel version is called the I-2 Grinder.
The Ascaso grinders have a Micrometric Regulation System
(MRS) also known as stepless adjustment to control the quality
and consistency of the grinds. This system allows for unmatched,
precise adjustments to the grind setting, which is critical
for espresso grinding. If you have an espresso machine,
you will enjoy the convenience of being able to grind directly
into the coffee holder for your machine.
Features:
- Simple Manual Operation - On the side
of the grinder there is a button that you can control the
main power. Just under the coffee dispensing chute, another
spring-loaded manual on/off button is present, and when
pressed, the grinder will start, then immediately turn off
when the button is released. Place the coffee holder (or
any storage container) against the button to start grinding
and then remove the coffee holder when the desired amount
of coffee has been dispensed.
- No Coffee Dispenser - The grinders feature
a coffee chute which funnels the freshly ground coffee from
the grinding chamber directly into a coffee holder for your
espresso machine or into a coffee filter, or even a storage
container.
- Easy to Clean - One important and often
overlooked task required of owning a good coffee grinder
is routine cleaning. To clean, just remove the coffee bean
hopper and cover to expose the grinding chamber, which takes
about 30 seconds. You can perform a thorough cleaning to
remove built up coffee grounds around the main cutting wheel
and then reassemble the grinder - total time is about 2
minutes.
- Large Coffee Bean Hopper - With the ability
to store up to 1.3 pounds of coffee beans in the hopper,
there is no need to constantly refill the grinder. It will
hold enough beans to brew several full pots of coffee or
60 shots of espresso. It is made of clear shatter resistant
plastic and topped with a plastic lid.
Specifications:
- Measurements: 16.25" H x 6.4" W x 10.5"
D.
- Weight: 9.3 lbs.
- Power: 250W / 120V.
- Grinding speed: 700rpm.
- Grinding blade diameter: 54mm.
- Material: Aluminum.
- Bean hopper capacity: 600g.
- Ground coffee capacity: 125 g (for 1-1D model).
- Production: 11 lbs/hr.
- Warranty: 1 year parts and labor limited
to manufacturer's defect and provided by 1st-line Equipment,
LLC.
- Made in Spain
Notes:
- Printable
manual can be found here. The instructional manuals
for Ascaso are printed for worldwide distribution and covers
almost every model produced worldwide. With this in mind,
there may be features, accessories, or colors available
in Ascaso equipment in other countries, but not available
in our models produced for the United States.
- The Ascaso espresso coffee grinder is mainly suited for
grinding for espresso only. We will not accept returns if
you purchase this grinder for other coffee brewing methods.
It can take between 3-5 minutes to turn the stepless adjustment
knob to change settings from french press to espresso grind.
We will not accept a return under our return policy if this
grinder was used to grind other types of food products (i.e.
spices, paper, etc) as some previous customers have tried
to do.
- The doser cannot be removed on doser versions.
- Power of machine is turned off by a manual switch (not
timer).
- The bean hopper requires a little force and shimmying
to get the aforementioned height. If the user only places
the bean hopper into the grinding chamber without pushing,
the unit height will be up to 17".
- A lower
profile bean hopper is available for this grinder. The
height would lowered by approximately 1.5 inches. Please
note the low profile bean hopper is only available as an
option as we can not switch out original parts.
- Instructions for grinder doser spring-clip replacement
can be read here.
The part you need can be purchased here.
- Important Note for ALL coffee/espresso
grinders. NEVER adjust your grind in the finer direction
unless the motor is spinning. If the motor is off and you
adjust finer, there is a very likely chance that you will
compact beans between the burr teeth and gunk up the burrs
or carry grinds into the grinding chamber threads- jamming
the burr carrier. This is not covered under warranty. Typically,
the remedy of a jammed grinder takes two technicians about
one hour each, resulting in a 2-hour labor charge.
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