KRUVE Sifter Twelve Helps Accurately Measure, Calibrate, Refine Coffee Grinds, Great for Cafes, Baristas, Or Home Brewers, 12 Interchangeable Sieves, Silver

KRUVE by KRUVE from Amazon.com Services. Labor intensive. Can get messy. Why 5 stars? It does exactly what it is designed to do. Do I use it often? NO! This is one of those items specifically designed for those who are beyond serious about their brew. If you are not too serious about your cup, leave this alone. Again, it does what it is designed to do and your coffee responds well to evenly sized grains. Whether you press, pour-over or auto-drip you will notice a difference in your coffee with even grain sizes and the skin of the beans removed. The most notable difference is less coffee dust/grittiness. But this also gave me the feeling of a weaker cup of coffee so I tended too use more coffee when I KRUVE. Also, when you KRUVE you will waste coffee on factory pre-ground beans. If you are on the fence about a KRUVE, don’t get one. This is only for those who know they want it.

OK first thing is unless you buy the full 12 filter kit the suggested espresso sifters aren't included. I found it on sale, and also applied for a credit card I don't need to get a discount. It's very nice, but $80 for a sifter?OK that's out of the way. I'm using a pair of hacked Cuisinart Supreme coffee grinders. One with local roated espresso blend, and the other with whole bean decaf. Total cost about$35 each. I wanted to see what they're actually doing. Not too bad really. The Kruve sorts the fine and coarse grinds. Fine for espresso, and I use the coarse for Aeropress. Very little waste, and all my coffee is better and more consistent. I adjusted the grind 1 step finer on all my machines including the Handgrind Precision Manual grinder. These are settings I tried w/o the sifter and didn't care for. With 12 filters I can play with the variation. But for what I'm doing an espresso kit with the 250m, and 500m sifter would be welcome. They're not in the basic 2 sifter, or the 6 sifter kit. It feels like they're gouging espresso lovers. Definitely a high quality item and it can refine the output of any grinder (even mine). The filters don't exactly snap in and out. More like changing a bicycle tire to get them seated properly. But they seal well and stay in place while you shake the whole thing around and tap the sides etc.

i find i dont sift out boulders, they are sort of important to how your roast drains (at least with the pourover). i find i mostly use this to see where my grinder is actually set, then i go without unless im producing lots of fines, like with an Ethiopian, or other light beans. if its light ill sift out ultrafines.

Can’t believe no one thought of this before? Makes a lot of sense to have even grind size for even extraction. I started using it recently for my Aeropress and French Press with quality beans and it really adds a level of clarity to the coffee and takes away a lot of the bitterness. For the french press in particular it helped reduce the sediment in the cup.

I bought my Kruve several years ago and experimented with it for a month or two and then put it into storage. The only thing I remember is that I didn't care for the French Press coffee brewed using Kruve's formula.Just recently, I got the Kruve out to do some more experimenting and once again visited the French Press recipe. This time, the Kruve sifted coffee is giving me the best French Press coffee I've ever had. I brew it exactly as described, with the appropriate screen sizes, a 13/1 water/coffee ratio and 10 minutes extraction time.I enjoy drinking coffee, rather than drinking it as a daily energy supplement, so the extra time it takes to use the Kruve is worth it. I typically only brew one cup per day, and sometimes I go days without coffee. The Kruve makes those days I do drink, special.

Amazing tool. I find it better as a weekly grinder calibration tool, than an everyday addition to my coffee routine. Especially helpful to make great espresso consistently. Manufacturing is high quality and well thought out, easy to use. It does add a couple of minutes to making coffee and I tend to sprinkle coffee grounds more than usual - however, totally worth it. I saw it was absolutely necessary to get good espresso shots from manual espresso makers.If you have a good grinder ($500+) with fresh burrs, this is not as necessary for pour-overs. If you do not have a great fresh grinder, this makes up for it if you are ok with less coffee efficiency. I was one of the original kickstarter backers so I have been using it for a while with no problems.

When calibrating my grinder with 400 um to 800 um I was always getting equal boulders to desired size (about 45% each). I was sifting the recommended tap/shake method for 1.5 min. Turns out the filters get overwhelmed and require a more aggressive sifting. Now I shake/tap/rock for 2 minutes, empty the middle chamber, then repeat twice more. Now my grind achieves the 5%/90/5% target, roughly. Be patient and sift on.

This thing is absolutely great. I'm not a professional barista, but I spend a lot of money on quality beans, and sifting coffee is the difference between a bad cup of coffee and the best cup you've ever had in your life.

I've been semi-seriously brewing coffee for decades, but I've learned more about the grind in the last few weeks since I got my Kruve than in the 20 years before that. I have a higher-end home grinder (~$300) and a basic burr grinder (~$75), and it was fascinating to see how the two grinders compare using the Kruve. Compared to the better grinder, the cheaper grinder has a lot more fines falling through my lower, finer screen while simultaneously holding a bunch more above my top, coarse screen; in other words, the grind is all over the place. My better grinder, on the other hand, has a lot more sitting in the middle layer, which is where you want it. With my current setup, I'm losing about 10% of my grind to fines, which is reasonable, I figure. My pourovers are now much more consistent, and I can hit similar timings from brew to brew much better than I could do before.One small comment: there are no instructions about this, but it is a bit challenging to get the various screens to pop into place on the 2 levels. At first, I thought you just lay the screens in the holder, but that didn't work; they've got to be snapped in. To put a screen into one of the level holders, I turn it upside down and place the "pointy" end into place. Then, I work my way down the sides snapping the screen up into the slot before finishing on the far side.Anyway, I've already gotten my money's worth out of this product, and it will guide my brewing for years to come.

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