Programmable Conical Burr Coffee Grinder - EM0490

System

So the EM0490 has been released....


So when will the upgrade to the EM6910 be available ?


See below for the [size=small]Programmable Conical Burr Coffee Grinder[/size][size=small][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]. [/color][/size][size=small]EM0490[/size]


http://www.sunbeam.com.au/media/317356/em0490_ib_web_version.pdf

RichardM

I'm assuming it's the same burr set as the EM0480, so does that mean the EM6910 will just have more buttons and the same guts? Just what we need. More quality sunbeam electronics  :laugh:

Brett H

Some great innovations in there such as including a dosing funnel and ease of cleaning the burrs.  If however it's just as noisy and messy, the Breville will be the winner unless this comes in substantially cheaper.  Ceramic burrs would have been a nice point of difference.  RRP anyone?

beanflying

Still won't be trading in my K10 on one  ::) Wait until the better manufacturers finally wake up and start fitting this sort of smarts for K3 MM or similar quality home grinders. Still good value I guess but last time I played with a 480 for Espresso I was less than impressed.  :question:

Brett H

Now AM, you wouldn't be suggesting that the R & D department at the Rancilio domestic office are complacent and resting on their laurels... are you?  Because if you are I'd suggest that they hardly exist!  Irrespective I think you are spot on! With refinement the Rocky or the K3 could again be on top and domestic users beating a path to suppliers but I kinda think their modus operandi is to make things as robust and as simple as possible to keep them out of land-fill as long as possible.  The longest duty cycle (bragging rights) and estimated time to failure wins theory.  I would imagine that control boards and microprocessors with dry solder joints and caked with fines will fail before the motor in a Rocky thus KISS. I suspect however that it is less of the second idea and more of the first!