Baratza Encore Espresso Coffee Grinder
Featuring 40 individual grind settings, the Baratza Encore can please any palate with its gamut of accurate and repeatable grind settings. The Encore has an accurate medium to coarse grind for the increasingly popular manual brew methods such as pour-over, Aeropress, Siphon, Drip, and Chemex. The specially designed burrs give a precise grind with minimal fines for a flavorful, balanced extraction when making espresso.
Of course, Encore's build quality is one that Baratza parts consumers have come to trust. The efficient DC motor keeps your beans cool, even during extended grind times, while a combination of electric and gear speed reducers slow the burr to 450 RPM, ensuring a smooth bean feed and reducing noise, heat, and static buildup.
Beyond a great coffee-drinking experience, the Encore makes for a great coffee-making experience. A convenient, front-mounted pulse button makes it easy to grind on demand into your brew basket. Whether you are looking for an espresso grinder or a grinder to help you explore that extensive range of brew methods, the Encore is a great all-around home grinder.
Grinding Burrs
- Conical: Manufactured in Europe, the Encore's 40 mm conical burrs will grind for many styles of coffee. Conical burrs grinders are exceptional at producing consistent grinds from very fine to very coarse as well as being durable and will remain sharp for many years.
Grinding Adjustment
- Gearbox: In 2012, Baratza introduced the second generation Gearbox (GB 2.0). With GB 2.0, Baratza has significantly increased the strength and durability of the drive transmission while decreasing noise. In addition to a new driveshaft, motor mounting plate, and bushings, this change includes a new drive gear made of 15% glass-filled thermoplastic which is quieter than the prior metal gear, wears better, and is more shock resistant. During the Encore's rigorous testing process, stainless steel screws were thrown into the burr, and in every case, the motor/gear/burrs stopped immediately, the (automatically-resettable) thermal cutout was triggered, and the gears were fine.
- Stepped: Turn the hopper within 40 settings, you can quickly adjust from fine for espresso to coarse for French Press. The grind range is from 250 to 1200 microns.
- All-purpose: The Encore is a great grinder for manual brewing and espresso.
Operation
- Minimal retention: To maximize freshness, the Encore minimizes the ground coffee left in the grinder.
- Calibration: An innovative burr calibration system ensures that each grinder has the full range of grind. If necessary, the grinders can be user calibrated.
- Speed Control: With unique speed control, the Encore uses a combination of gears and an electronic speed reduction to control the rotation of the burr to 450 RPM. The electronic speed controller is adjustable from 405 to 495 RPM. This allows for specific user conditions that would require modification of the speed. This slow speed reduces heat, noise, and static generation in the grinder. It also ensures that the beans feed smoothly into the burrs.
- On-off Switch: The Encore has an easy on-off switch.
- Cleaning: Burrs are easily removable with no tools, making cleaning very easy.
- Motor: A powerful, high-torque DC motor effortlessly drives the burrs. This motor turns slowly resulting in cool, quiet operation, and permits long grinding duty cycles. The circuitry is equipped with an automatically resetting, thermal cutoff switch.
| Brand | Baratza |
|---|---|
| Height (inches) | 14, approximate |
| Width (inches) | 5, approximate |
| Depth (inches) | 6.5, approximate |
| Weight (pounds) | 7 |
| Wattage (watts) | 120 |
| Voltage (volts) | 110 – 120 |
| Burr size (mm), Type | 40, conical |
| Grinding speed (RPM) | 550 |
| Hopper capacity (grams) | 227 |
| Doser/Container capacity (grams) | 142 |
| Country of manufacture | Designed & Engineered in Seattle, WA, USA |
| Approvals | CE, CSA, EK, UL |
Espresso Coffee Grinder Warnings:
- Changing grind settings: It is very important to only change grind settings when the unit is powered on and the burrs are in motion. If you do not do this, the burrs will ‘gunk’ up and render the grinder to only produce very coarse grinds or no grinds at all. To remedy this, you will have to open up the grinder to get access to the grinding burrs. This issue will be considered operator error for lack of following directions, and not be classified as a defective grinder.
- Electrical cord: For most grinders, the cord is placed between the packaging (foam or cardboard) and the underside body of the grinder. During shipping, it is normal for a bend or insignificant blemish/slice to damage the cord.
- Finding coffee grinds in a new grinder: Most manufacturers test their grinders with coffee beans before they leave their facility. Unfortunately, they are not always able to get every trace of coffee out of the grinders after testing. As a result, you may find coffee beans or grinds inside your grinder, or there may be grinds in the packaging.
- Static issues: There are static issues with all grinders, even the highest-quality models. We firmly believe that the static comes from the coffee beans. If you are having static problems with your coffee grinder, try using a different blend of beans.
- Electrical: To avoid electrical damage (which is not considered a manufacturer’s defect), please acquire and install a single-outlet surge suppressor rated at 1080 joules or higher. A surge without protection can damage a grinder at the power switch, the capacitor, the motor, or the wiring.
- Burr cleaning: For routine maintenance of the grinding burrs, we recommend using grinder cleaning agents. We do not recommend any removal of the burrs or the burr carrier for cleaning (unless necessary) as re-assembly can cause damage.
- Replacing burrs: NEVER use a flathead screwdriver and hammer to wedge under the burrs for removal. This could badly damage your grinder.
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