James Hoffmann reviews a $20k espresso machine

I have a Smart Grinder Pro.

Got it for about 150.

I use it for espresso, so I don’t use the extra course grind settings (where others have asured me that it’s weakest. The espresso grind is comfortably less fine than the finest it can grind.

I will say that it’s better than

by a long shot.

I tend to buy things because the previous incarnation has regrettably failed, so all my opinions tend to be clouded by the notion that things weren’t decent, and were therefore a waste of money. or they were decent and therefore I don’t have the money to buy something just to compare.

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