The Italian company Mazzer started to produce coffee grinders in 1948. They make coffee grinders under their own name, but they do also manufacture coffee grinders for other espresso machine manufacturers. You need to think of brands such as Astoria CMA/Wega and the famous La Marzocco brand, this is the case with their rebranded models.
Models
One of the most famous coffee grinders models of Mazzer is the Mini Electronic. This coffee grinder is a domestic model and is designated as a “on demand” coffee grinder. of this specific model you have 2 types, a version A and a version B. with all their own properties.
This specific coffee grinder is intended to be used by a home barista, so in a domestic setting. It does suit that role perfectly. But you can always use the Mazzer Mini is a commercial setting, if you don’t need to grind too much volume.
The Omega coffee grinder is one of the latest models of Mazzer Luigi srl, but this is not a coffee grinder which is powered by a motor. But with manual power. It Is a specialty coffee hand grinder.
You can use this coffee grinder for a variety of coffee types from French press to espresso and filter coffee. This hand grinder has been fitted with conical grinding burrs.
Keeping your Mazzer coffee grinder clean might be one of the most underestimated cleaning tasks in a bar/restaurant. But the coffee grinder is also a food processing device. So it also need to be kept clean. You can do 2 things, internal and external cleaning.
The external cleaning is pretty simple, take a Brooks microfibre cloth and Puly Bar Igenic or Puly Bar hopper cleaner. With this you can clean off the coffee greases from the coffee hopper and the outside of the grinder.
The internal cleaning can be divided into 2 categories. Weekly cleaning or maintenance. Seen if you don’t do regular maintenance the weekly cleaning cycles won’t have that much effect. You manually need to clean out the grinding chamber with a brush (take out the power plug). When you have cleared that you can run Puly Grind every week true the grinding chamber to make sure that you get the freshest out of your grinder.
