OPTION-O - Lagom 01

This list seems somehow outdated, and is missing some important items, that are popular and offering a great value. Hand grinders: **Kingrinder K6, K2, K0, Timemore C3S, C2S** Electric: **Zerno Z1**, soon also **Z2** (80mm, now in a prototype stage), **Mazzer Philos, DF64V, Sculptor 078s,064, and Lagom 01** (although grinders with burrs larger than 83 mm is a rather niche ultra-high-end, so not sure really, if EK43, P100 and L01 make sense to be included in such a list) Also: In this list, the **Fellow Ode2** is placed in "budget-friendly", while **Fellow Opus** in "mid-range/prosumer"?? :) Ode costs almost twice as Opus, and while Ode is rather popular for manual brews, Opus is not that popular neither for brew, nor for espresso, although technically "it can do both". (edit to add) Also missing, the **DF54** low-cost electric grinder.

Some will push back against this but in General Electric is able to outperform hand grinding. The issue though is “for what price?” The get the same performance from an electric as a hand grinder, you pay more money. I have had an Ode Gen 2 ($350 electric), P64 ($1800 electric), Lagom 01 ($3000 electric) and a Pietro ($500 hand grinder) . It’s a lot of hassle to use the Pietro but it makes a great cup or pour over. The Lagom 01 is my “best” grinder by quality of the cup and experience using it. It has 102mm blind burrs in it that you could not have in a hand grinder. The cups it makes aren’t 6x the cups of a Pietro though. Hope that helps

In that budget range - you’re not getting a one to “rule them all” grinder. Having gone to the extreme and having bought almost every high end grinder on the market (EG-1, Lagom 01, M98V, SDRM, EK43, etc) and multiple burrs for most - the only “rule them all” grinder I think can even fall into that space is the Lagom 01 with 102HU burrs. It does spro extremely well (modern spro to flat 9 bar), and if dialed in properly for pour over -it’s among the best of the best. It has a tremendously high ceiling, and the pre-crushing system makes in far more versatile, as at low RPM’s you get a dynamic and more bimodal grind and at higher RPM’s the PCS works better and you get a more uniform and focused cup. For PO - the best way to describe it is that it has a Pietro profile on steroids. It’s not at all like the 80ULF, 98 brew, etc - but has the big peaks and valleys and long finish like the Pietro, just noticeably clearer, more separated and louder. The Lagom 01 is also the only grinder I have used where switching from PO to Spro back and forth is not only feasible, but downright issue free. It takes 2 seconds to rotate the dial between PO and Spro settings, and there is zero retention, so if you pull Spro, then move to PO settings, you aren’t getting fines in your cup left over from the Spro grinding. That said - after shipping, but the time it’s all said and done, it’s a $3k grinder.

I drink mostly clean washed ultra light coffees. There is no need to save up and get a more expensive grinder than an M01. A well dialed M01 cup is extremely close to as good as my $4.6k EG-1 or $3k Lagom 01. In fact at that same coffee meetup, there was a Lagom 01 with 102 SSP brew burrs and someone broke out a $600/lb coffee and asked to use the M01 to brew it for the group instead of the Lagom 01. The coffee on the M01 was sensational. Buy an expensive electric grinder because you either want a very specific profile (which you’d only know by tasting it) or because you just want a really cool, well made power tool. Don’t buy it expecting materially better coffee.

I would get a niche zero and option o 01 with SSP HU. The mizen does good with dark espresso (see if she likes it) and is great for pour over but is less acidity than ssp hu. Or go all out and get kafatek mc6 and 01.

Single dose. They don’t make them anymore but this is the new model https://www.option-o.com/shop/p/lagom-01

I would pick 98mm platform over 80mm… Titus Nautilus, Lagom, Levercraft Ultra and its variants, heck… even EK43.