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PuqPress Q2 VS MINI is an Automatic Tamper Right for you? | Review - YouTube
Channel: Coffee Parts
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hi i'm peter from coffee parts and today
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we're looking at the puck press mini
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versus the puck press q2
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let's see which one's better for you
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so both these tampers by puck press are
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made in the netherlands
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both tamp your coffee fast and level and
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consistently
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so what is the real difference the
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difference between the q range which is
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what we have here
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is actually three in the range so you've
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got the mini the q1 which we
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don't have on display mainly because we
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don't really carry it and the q2
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now the differences are your tam cycles
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how many tamps you can do
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daily and what does a warranty look like
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so on the mini
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which is really made for homes or low
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volumes they really cap
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out at 100 times a day when the q1 does
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300 so
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you think about your smaller volume cafe
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and the q2
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is you know top of the line unlimited
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tabs not only unlimited temps
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daily but your warranty is also
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unlimited time so
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after two years you've got full warranty
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unlimited times when
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the mini and the q1 do have a service
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cycle so what does that mean
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in practice in practice it really does
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come down to the differences between
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them being volume of use
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but they're all other little slight
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subtle differences
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mainly in how you adjust the forks on
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them how
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many program modes they have three
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program modes versus five program modes
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and the other difference between them is
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the tamping pressure range
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so on the mini you've got a range of
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between 10 and 30 kilos
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when on the q2 you've got to range
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between 5 and 30 kilos so it allows for
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a little bit of softer tamp
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both of which can be increased or
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decreased in increments of one kilo
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so on this one for example five six
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seven you get the drift
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on this one from 10 on to 30. now that
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also means on they've got different
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program modes
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when you've got three program modes on
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this one and five
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on the q2 the modes are shown under here
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but basically
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you've got them so they can tamp twice
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and you can tamp
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twice normal or twice a bit slower so
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you don't when the tabs pulling up
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you don't disrupt that that coffee cake
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and reduces channeling etc
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you got the single tam but also on this
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one you've got the
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hulk and the soft tam because this one
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does go down to five kilos
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on this one you pretty much only have
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the speedy which is the two quick times
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the precise which is
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two times a bit slower and the single
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tamp now talking about tamp speeds they
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both tamp at one point three seconds per
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time
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so obviously if you're doing two tanks
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it's gonna be around the two and a half
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three second range
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let's look at setting these tampers up
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when you get them so what you'll need to
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do to set up your portafilter
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and then we'll also look at what it
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looks like to clean them so firstly
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we'll start off with this q2
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and you can take this cover off
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bring it upside down and with the tool
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that it comes with it
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once you lock in your portafilter you
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bring your portafilter in there
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let's turn it off
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well we're doing these things live make
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sure it's off
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when you get it take the plate off take
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the top off
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you turn them upside down and you loosen
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the two
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brackets here here's my little hidden
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tool here
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so it does come with these tools it
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comes with the tool for this and also
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the tool for cleaning
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so if you just loosen these two
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[Music]
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once you've loosened it the beautiful
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thing about this one is if you look
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under here
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you've got a dial that allows you to
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dial it up and down slightly so you
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don't really have to be holding it
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and trying to get it all lined up like
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you do in the mini so effectively if you
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put in your portafilter
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you can dial this down to get it nice
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and tight
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whoops wrong way and then
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once you've got it nice and tight you
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can remove it
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tighten it up and it's now set so it
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makes it easier to set up for any
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portafilter being a naked
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a normal single double or llamas or
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coursing or double
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once that's done just flip it back
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around
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put the plates back on and that's set
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just going back to the mini it's
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the same function let's just
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turn it off it's the same function but
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when you have it upside
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down you actually do have to hold it to
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really get it
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dialed in you don't have the adjustment
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which is kind of nice
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but let's be honest you're only really
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setting them up once so not the end of
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the world
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so we'll just talk about cleaning really
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quickly
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straight away so when you do have them
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on to clean them if you just press this
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down for half a second the bottom button
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you'll see that the head comes down
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quickly wipe them with it with a cloth
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just to get rid of that static
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so that's just a quick plan to actually
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clean up
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properly you do the same thing that you
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for like a deep clean you'd pull the
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cover off
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you bring it down and then you undo the
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nut
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by undoing it all completely and pulling
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out this whole piston
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the whole head comes out you can clean
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not only the tamp head
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but also all the chamber inside and that
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should be done daily in a cafe
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environment
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in saying that this head or all the
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camps
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we carry are 58.3 mil so to cover
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pretty much most machines and vst
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baskets they do come with a 58 but we
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don't carry them mainly because we're
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focused on the more speciality end of
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the market
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and once you remove it it's just a
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matter of cleaning this head it's
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non-stick
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and cleaning inside that chamber then
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just reverse the process to put it back
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in
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we'll do some movie magic and chop it so
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you guys see it just in one second flat
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and we're back with practice we'll get
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faster because you are doing that daily
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but effectively hit that button back up
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and there you go it's clean back to
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normal now to get into the program mode
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you actually hold this button for five
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seconds
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and it will cycle into currently will be
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on p0
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and you can just go through the modes p1
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p2
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and there you go bringing it back down
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to p0 lock it in
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and once it's locked in to go up and
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down in tamp
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it's obviously self-explanatory just
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bring it down or up
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and so 20 means 20 kilos
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and that's kind of it so you just have
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to adjust the four
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adjust what um mode you're in and adjust
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the weight
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same on the on the mini here obviously
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only three
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modes but you adjust your fourth which
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is a little bit more work than on this
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one
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adjust the tamp and you're ready to go
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in saying that the cleaning is exactly
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the same
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so let's look at these actually tamping
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in operation
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we'll get a grinder out we'll grind some
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coffee and we'll just show you what two
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tabs on each one looks like
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that's the slower tab and what a quick
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tamp
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looks like so
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i know you guys have been wanting to see
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them in action so here we go
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i've got the mini set up as the standard
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tam
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and the cue to set up as a slow tam or
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basically program mode one so let's just
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grind out some coffee
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we're just using the niche for this we
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could be using whatever grinder
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so what the what the pucks really say
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is that hand tamping operation covered
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in heaps of videos
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where it's not great on your wrist not
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great on your shoulder and elbow
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and also you sometimes not getting a
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level tan consistent tan
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etc 1001 videos talking about that what
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we're focusing on is just the operation
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of these tampers
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so put it in i'm in an awkward position
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here for the video but
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just put it in tamps twice there you go
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and it's an
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even clean tan now on the pucks compared
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to some of the other machines like a
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slingshot it doesn't polish it at the
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end
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but it does do a really clean crisp
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finish this one being a 58.3
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it really has gone nice to the edge and
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that cake looks pretty awesome to me
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we'll just grind out a second one and do
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it on the q2
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once again it's not too much of a
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difference between these two it's just
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the motor capacity so a hundred times a
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day to unlimited temps
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and a few more function modes and we're
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gonna be on function mode one
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let's just grind out some more coffee
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and let's go on the
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q2 and bear in mind that was the slower
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tam
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and once again really clean time really
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clean um
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cake now the difference was on the slow
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tamp
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when it pulls back up it pulls up a bit
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slower so it's not
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basically giving a bit of suction
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disrupting the middle of that
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that coffee cake just to get more
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consistent and in theory less channeling
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and more even distribution
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something you might notice a bit more if
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you're using a naked portafilter with
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the flow
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but that's your normal tam soft ham and
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there's
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gonna be three more modes on these but
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we'll let you play with them when you
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get them home
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overall one things i love about these is
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their consistency and that's what
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they're made for
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they're awesome they're consistent get
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the same temp every time
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bring removes one variable so if you're
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weighing your coffee now and you're
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tamping consistently
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there's two big variables have been
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removed the home
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one depending on what you consider an
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affordable price point
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is more affordable than the q2 or some
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other tampers out there
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but obviously it's not going to compare
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to a hand tamp in price
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a lot of people are going to say you
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don't need a old tradition etc
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this is for those that want the
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automated and really to narrow it down
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with the q2 the unlimited tams it really
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does work well
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personally one pet hate that i don't
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like about them is the power cable
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being at the rear i really like seamless
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designs
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especially if it's an island bench or in
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a cafe don't like that
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facing the customer side don't like the
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switches at the back
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and not a big fan of the menu on the
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side would rather really be
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barista focus on the front and the power
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seamless
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but i don't think that's the reason
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people are buying or not buying these
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they're buying for the functionality and
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the look
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so effectively for home you go to the
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mini busy cafe you go
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to q2 i'm not sure when you'd go q1 if
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you've
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had a quiet cafe they don't ever see us
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being busy personally i just like going
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and knowing you've got a runway so if
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you did become busy
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and it's just future proof yeah that
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basically
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now i know electric campers are a little
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bit controversial and there's a big
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debate between hand-tamping electric
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tanking
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do we need them and their price point
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but i would love to know
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between the puck mini and the q2 which
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one do you prefer which one would you go
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for or would you go for another tap all
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together like the xeno art or the killer
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