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at the cafe stop on todays club ride, one rider checked the time to make sure it was still appropriate to order a cappucino. He is Italian though, so is forgiven.
I think this is more a reflection of how seriously Italians take food and digestion rather than anything to do with coffee. It would be whether to have milk or not at that time, possibly inducing digestive discomfort later if you do.
See also discarding certain parts of a garlic clove when cooking with it
@susepic Not for the first time, I'll recommend what I've got: a Rok grinder. It's a manual grinder so has (some of) the advantages of weight, size, noise, but a benchtop format with a horizontal axis (kinda like one of those sausage meat grinders) so much easier and quicker than your Hario (which I also have for travel). Practically zero retention. Comes Hoffman-recommended too.
Did the job absolutely fine for that other than it does generate a lot of static so it helps if you can very slightly dampen the beans with a mist sprayer but that's true of lots of grinders.
So glad that someone else has mentioned this as mine does exactly this! I find leaving it for around 10 to 15 minutes after it's finished grinding helps to mitigate the static but doesn't get rid of it all. Will try dampening and see how that goes.
I went old school.
Spong No.2 bolted to the wall.
Fine as you like. Big old cast iron lump.
A bit like Josh, I'm kind of old school and quite happy with my, Made in West Germany, Kym coffee grinder. I enjoy my coffee and guests always complement me on it. I think it cost me all of about £30 out of an antique shop.
As @involver said at the bottom of the previous page there’s a known problem with a capacitor failing on the Wilma Svart. I had it, and it is likely to be what you have experienced @DrJ (and @austen).
Wilma replaced my Svart under warranty, but didn’t have any Svarts in stock at the time so I paid the difference and got a Uniform, which is a noticeable upgrade…
Anyway, the Svart is pretty easy to repair with a soldering iron and a new capacitor - I’m pretty sure these are what I bought. There are instructions on coffeeforums.co.uk, and also a couple of threads on Reddit…
Have you considered a Rohloff hub?
It makes similar noises but more eloquently and expensively yet remains indestructible. I have often considered dropping a few beans in to see how well it could do. 🙂
(Tongue firmly in cheek)