I live out of my duffel bag and I have the Fixie along with a collapsible kettle and pour over. The whole kit is tiny and lightweight and I can make good coffee in any hotel room with ease. I just spent 3 months in Fiji and am currently on a 47 day cross country bicycle trip that I'm guiding. Is the Fixie perfect? No. Is it almost perfect for a tiny lightweight grinder? Yes!
OE is always innovating. I have a Pharos and Lido, so I’m a fan, but this one seems overly complicated, having to keep from losing the shims and spacers. The side hatch seems fussy and prototype-like, too, but I do like that they think outside of the box and don’t just do everything like every other company. Curious what problem these design choices actually solve, though.
very nice review! however I think it's possible that there are more fines because of the very new burrs compared to the broken in burrset from the Lido series
@@Brinkless The idea of needing to adjust your grind setting. Not a terrible concept if you buy the same exact bean all the time and only brew one way. But who does that?
Just wonder if this is against user experience, business want to differentiate themselves through innovation but good business should also consider user experience either by delivering extra value or reducing cost. It is an interesting grinder but haven’t seen much value yet, maybe have to try one day to feel it. Good design, good idea, keep innovation going :)
I love my LIDO 2 but changing grind settings is a pain in the ass. Changing it looks even worse on this grinder. Wish they introduced a model that was easier to adjust. Using this grinder looks like an awful experience.
Everything you reviewed are pretty exciting and good, but this is just odd design choice and what a waste of premium material of carbon fiber and titanium...
200 dolars for that? No way, too complicated, not really friendly to use, weird adjustment system. I know they want to be innovating. But come on.... i would grab porlex mini in every way possible.
It always depends on what you value more. If you value quality burrs, little weight and great portability, it's a great option. It's all about the value the customer puts on the product. On 200 dollars it's not easy to find all of the above, I agree it may not be the most intuitive option, but it's a new and different approach, with great quality results
Ye nah I don't think this product have any particular place in our coffee world, especially not for travelling due to the simple fact that the last thing I want is having to fiddle around with small pieces and things when out. That grind size system seem very time consuming as well. Also, am I supposed to remember "disc with 1 hole plus 1 big teflon plus 1 small tefloon" for this particular coffee? What's wrong with size 1-20 for example? I might have missed something but I'll just say Nah to this one and hope coffee equipment manufacturers will realize that we need useful innovations, not innovations focused on just being unique.
Oh yeah, because stuff like the PUQ Press are super useful in the coffee world. Like, everything has it's place in the community, maybe not to you right now, and that's more than okay. But we cannot keep gatekeeping stuff in the coffee world, it makes it useless and conservative
@@Brinkless I don't know much enough about the PUQ Press to comment it, which I also didn't. I don't agree about not gatekeeping. Some new stuff really doesn't solve any problems, just creating more waste and frustration. Which this grinder is a prime example of, in my opinion which based only on what I have learnt in the video. Side note; I used to be as in-to gaming as I am to coffee now. The gaming industry changed to the worse. Micro transactions, pay to win, idle games, ads, full price beta-games etc. I have thought about what happened a lot, and my conclusion is that gamers like myself gave enough room for this bullcrap to happen. We didn't do the gate-keeping as we should. Now almost the whole industry is rotten (but its better now than 3 years ago tho). As gear play a huge role of the result in our coffee world, and people willing to buy EK43, GS3 etc for home use, I don't think any gatekeeping for useful new innovation is even possible. Everyone who is in this business knows how hard excellent flavor and consistency is and therefore anything new and useful will find its place eventually. Or what do you think? :)
I live out of my duffel bag and I have the Fixie along with a collapsible kettle and pour over. The whole kit is tiny and lightweight and I can make good coffee in any hotel room with ease. I just spent 3 months in Fiji and am currently on a 47 day cross country bicycle trip that I'm guiding. Is the Fixie perfect? No. Is it almost perfect for a tiny lightweight grinder? Yes!
OE is always innovating. I have a Pharos and Lido, so I’m a fan, but this one seems overly complicated, having to keep from losing the shims and spacers. The side hatch seems fussy and prototype-like, too, but I do like that they think outside of the box and don’t just do everything like every other company. Curious what problem these design choices actually solve, though.
It's good to see a company like OE that takes all these design risks. I don't own their grinders yet, but I love their other travel equipment.
very nice review! however I think it's possible that there are more fines because of the very new burrs compared to the broken in burrset from the Lido series
it’s interesting,the same burs with lido series,but this fixie performs better than lido3, the coffee will be much cleaner and sweeter.
Imo they're trying to fix a problem that isn't really there...and I'm not even sure whether I understand the problem they are trying to fix or not.
And what would that problem be?
@@Brinkless The idea of needing to adjust your grind setting. Not a terrible concept if you buy the same exact bean all the time and only brew one way. But who does that?
Just wonder if this is against user experience, business want to differentiate themselves through innovation but good business should also consider user experience either by delivering extra value or reducing cost. It is an interesting grinder but haven’t seen much value yet, maybe have to try one day to feel it.
Good design, good idea, keep innovation going :)
I love my LIDO 2 but changing grind settings is a pain in the ass. Changing it looks even worse on this grinder. Wish they introduced a model that was easier to adjust.
Using this grinder looks like an awful experience.
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Everything you reviewed are pretty exciting and good, but this is just odd design choice and what a waste of premium material of carbon fiber and titanium...
200 dolars for that? No way, too complicated, not really friendly to use, weird adjustment system. I know they want to be innovating. But come on.... i would grab porlex mini in every way possible.
It always depends on what you value more. If you value quality burrs, little weight and great portability, it's a great option. It's all about the value the customer puts on the product. On 200 dollars it's not easy to find all of the above, I agree it may not be the most intuitive option, but it's a new and different approach, with great quality results
Another confuse grinder, after lido E , I will never buy any OE grinder!
Way to fussy, and to add the beans, nightmare!
Ye nah I don't think this product have any particular place in our coffee world, especially not for travelling due to the simple fact that the last thing I want is having to fiddle around with small pieces and things when out. That grind size system seem very time consuming as well.
Also, am I supposed to remember "disc with 1 hole plus 1 big teflon plus 1 small tefloon" for this particular coffee? What's wrong with size 1-20 for example?
I might have missed something but I'll just say Nah to this one and hope coffee equipment manufacturers will realize that we need useful innovations, not innovations focused on just being unique.
Oh yeah, because stuff like the PUQ Press are super useful in the coffee world. Like, everything has it's place in the community, maybe not to you right now, and that's more than okay. But we cannot keep gatekeeping stuff in the coffee world, it makes it useless and conservative
@@Brinkless I don't know much enough about the PUQ Press to comment it, which I also didn't.
I don't agree about not gatekeeping. Some new stuff really doesn't solve any problems, just creating more waste and frustration. Which this grinder is a prime example of, in my opinion which based only on what I have learnt in the video.
Side note; I used to be as in-to gaming as I am to coffee now. The gaming industry changed to the worse. Micro transactions, pay to win, idle games, ads, full price beta-games etc. I have thought about what happened a lot, and my conclusion is that gamers like myself gave enough room for this bullcrap to happen. We didn't do the gate-keeping as we should. Now almost the whole industry is rotten (but its better now than 3 years ago tho).
As gear play a huge role of the result in our coffee world, and people willing to buy EK43, GS3 etc for home use, I don't think any gatekeeping for useful new innovation is even possible. Everyone who is in this business knows how hard excellent flavor and consistency is and therefore anything new and useful will find its place eventually.
Or what do you think? :)