Mignon Single Dose vs Niche Zero for espresso, a hobbyist’s comparison

Mignon Single Dose vs Niche Zero for espresso, a hobbyist’s comparison

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Mignon Single Dose vs Niche Zero for espresso, a hobbyist’s comparison

Mignon Single Dose vs Niche Zero for espresso, a hobbyist’s comparison

minimum dose size?

I use the Hario switch to brew my coffee and am trying to reduce my caffeine consumption. Hence I would like to brew smaller cups of coffee. I am currently using 10g of coffee with 160g of water. (1:16 Ratio) I am wondering if there is a minimum amount of coffee...

Mignon Single Dose vs Niche Zero for espresso, a hobbyist’s comparison

Whenever I watched some grinder review on YouTube I wondered, whether normal people like me would taste a difference. Now I got the chance to try it for myself, I bought a Mignon Single Dose when it came out and recently my brother bought a Niche Zero and let me compare them for a while 🙂

The answer is yes, we tasted quite a difference. We tried three espressos brewed with a Profitec Pro 300: a lightly roasted, funky, heavily fermented coffee from Columbia, a lightly roasted, spicy, natural coffee from Ethopia, and a dark roast, natural coffee from Brazil. With all three coffees the roasty, nutty, chocolaty notes were stronger with the Niche. With the light roasts, the spicy and fruity notes were clearer with the Mignon and we preferred that, but depending on your taste you might prefer the less acidic Niche espresso over the added complexity, particularly with the funky one. For the dark roast, however, we felt one day we tasted more flavors with the Mignon and the other with the Niche, so no conclusive answer there, beyond the roasty flavors.

Regarding the handling, the only big difference I noticed was the seasoning of the burrs: With the Mignon it took quite a few bags of coffee, until we got reproducible espresso without channeling. Channeling was never an issue with the Niche, but the first bag of coffee had a harsh bitterness, that I remembered from new Commandantes. Otherwise it's potato potato, both are easy to dial in and use in general. With the Mignon you have to be a bit careful to not knock off the rubbery thing and with the Niche to not throw the coffee beans everywhere.

I am fine with both designs, the Niche might be a bit smaller and quieter. The Mignon has these weird holes in the front, because they just mounted the standard case at an angle, and the Niche has this irritating LED, showing you when it's plugged in 🤷

TLDR; Even normies taste a difference; if you like ashtray coffee go for the Niche, if you like sour hounds go for the Mignon 🙂

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