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some of you guys are very very observant

of my tiny little coffee cart you're

looking at everything that's on it and

you have noticed and you keep asking

what is that hand grinder

what is this thing and that is what i am

here to talk to you about today so this

is the helor flux or healer 106 and it

is what i believe to be basically the

best hand grinder i would say definitely

the best hand grinder for espresso i'll

go over the specs you'll kind of see why

i think it's the best because of that

and of course i'll show you a

demonstration this in my opinion is the

best titan hand grinder because one it

is actually usable two it's actually

portable so unlike an hd1 you can kind

of bring this with you and three it's

got really great performance so this

grinder is about 750 to 800 it is not a

cheap hand grinder but it is absolutely

amazing because it uses 71 millimeter

maser 186 pairs so in this tiny package

here you have 71 millimeter conicals big

boy conicals in a grinder this big this

grinder does weigh about 1800 grams

although there is a newer iteration of

this that i think weighs around 1600

grams but the point here is that it's

got big burrs now here's the issue with

the pharaohs here the pharaohs has 68

millimeter i think it mills or maybe

they're masters i'm not sure but they're

68 millimeter conicals the issue with

this grinder is it is impossible to use

this is much more usable this is geared

down about three to one or four to one

depending on what iteration you have so

that means every single three turns of

this equals one turn of the burst set

that actually means you can grind coffee

pharos is not geared down at all so

that's why when you you put into your

light roast coffees you just have a

terrible time because you need so much

torque to actually grind the coffee

especially if you're doing something

like espresso and it's not geared down

crazily like the apex here where you

have to do 20 million turns just to have

one rotation of the burst and the

biggest advantage of this is that it

doesn't jam like an hg1 does this thing

chews through those light roast coffees

this thing is absolutely amazing for

espresso everything you touch about this

is amazing so the actual place where you

load the beans in i think you can fit

about 40-ish grams in here the top part

your handle

fits on really nicely it's got this

piece of wood here and what's also

really cool here is there's this rubber

grip so you can really grip this thing

and of course the catch cup is magnetic

now let me go over performance and then

also tell you about some of the

downsizing and then i'll show you a

demonstration of this so performance

wise this is so amazing i have a niche

there i have the pharaohs here and i

have the flux here all of these have

very similar properties in cup because

they have big conical burrs niche zero

63 millimeter conicals ferros 68

millimeter conicals and flux 71

millimeter conical so all of those

amazing properties in cup of the niche

which is high texture body nice and

chocolatey just super approachable and

comfortable cup that the niche produces

especially in espresso they exist in the

flux here although i'll be very

straightforward here and say that if you

had all three espressos pulled from each

of these you probably would have a

pretty difficult time in telling the

differences but in my experience i've

found a little bit more clarity and

definitely slightly more body because of

those larger conical burs in the flux

and also the pharaohs compared to the

niche what is also amazing about the

flux is the retention here so you're

only getting about 0.1.2 grams of

retention you kind of we'll see in here

there's a little bit of uh some coffee

that gets retained in here but the

grounds are so easy to work with there's

no static even out of something like the

niche here you kind of see the grounds

get a little compacted together already

because of the static you don't have

that problem with the flux the usability

of this grinder is is top notch

considering it's a hand grinder now

there are only kind of two downsides

with the flux first issue is dialing in

this grinder so the way you adjust the

grind size is just super annoying

basically you have to adjust your grind

size using this little small adjustment

ring and it is not stepped it's a

stepless grind size adjustment uh so

what happens is i'll show you here and i

this is probably gonna throw the

adjustment that i have off whack but you

stick this in here and you can adjust

the grind size so this allows me to

freeform adjust the grind size the issue

here is that this is not numbered at all

so uh you're it's really dependent on

how far in you actually screw this

adjustment in that basically makes

dialing in

terrible you have to sacrifice at least

one to two shots when you're dialing in

for espresso but generally speaking once

you get it in right it's really good

another thing i did want to note on the

downside to this grinder is filter

performance so that the coarser end you

get a ton of fines and your your brews

just clog like crazy you can sieve it

out but i do think cheaper grinders like

the c40 easy presto have q2 heptagonal

all those guys do a little bit better

when it comes to filter performance but

when it comes to big conical bur for

espresso

this is it this is the answer here now

the second issue of the flux is this

catch cup here so sometimes when you

grind coffee a little coffee will get

stuck in the edges here and these kind

of crevices of this catch cup but you

can kind of just like knock it out there

although you do want a wdt after that

kind of that's the only issue really i

would say about the flux here is just

that dial again the the little catch-up

issue is not really an issue because

uwdt it's hilarious that it's a hand

grinder and it produces just such a

comfortable espresso really high body

chocolate a little bit more clear than

the niche this is really perfect for

those of you who are after like a very

chocolatey espresso or you're using more

of those medium dark roast coffee this

does also work fairly well for light

roast coffee same thing kind of with the

niche where the big conicals kind of

just remove a lot of the acidity that

you'll find in some of those lighter

roast coffees although i will say that

the 71 mil massagers here are slightly

clearer although you would be super hard

pressed to tell the difference between

the 63 68 and 71 mil conicals all right

so let me show you how to grind coffee

using a flux it's super easy so all you

got to do is you take the bottom part

off here i use this to weigh my coffee

and i'm going to be using this elixir

coffee uh wash wash which is i would say

more on like medium light lighter end of

medium which is um not gonna work at all

in the pharaohs but i'll grind some

coffee in the pharaohs just for fun so i

always like to put in about 18.1 just

just a little bit more like an extra

bean or two because it's going to

because these burrs do retain a bit

which is like 0.1 to 0.3 grams although

that's going to depend on coffee and i

would make the argument that that's not

really that big of an issue here

especially because there's no static at

all but yeah you i just put the coffee

in there and then what you do is i will

do this i'll then pour the beans into

the top very straightforward and then i

love that that bottom part is magnetic

so this is set up hopefully to a proper

espresso grind size because i did adjust

it a little to show you but look at this

watch this i'm not i'm not using my body

i'm not using the table i'm not using

the football technique with the pharaohs

is i can just

i can just grind the coffee

that's amazing this is so funny to me

because these are 71 millimeter masters

this is a fairly light coffee and we're

grinding really really fine uh this

might be even too fine for the decent

here i've definitely choked my decent

out using this grinder gearing down the

grinder is completely fine because these

burrs are just so so big and they let

you grind the coffee fairly fast i'm

definitely not suffering or dying when i

like when i use the pharaohs so yeah

there we go and you know what's also

awesome about this grinder is it's quiet

this is not stupidly loud like the

pharaohs is i do like to give this a few

more turns just at the end because

sometimes there's a little bit of coffee

stuck in here

and here we go so let me show you the

retention usually i would say you're off

by like 0.1 to 0.2

so 18.3 i put in like 18.3 ish and then

you'll see there's grounds here but what

you can do is you can just give this a

little tap like that and then you get

your 0.1 back usually and dumping it

into there

you'll kind of see that there are a

little bit of it becomes a little clumpy

and that's just because

uh the coffee gets stuck in the edges

there so that's kind of the only issue i

have with this uh grinder but you can

just kind of do this

and really just knock this thing out and

then you're good to go

okay so i choked my decent

using that and i was pulling the cremina

lover profile which requires pretty fine

grinding so i'm just going to adjust

here and this is a perfect example of

where the flux kind of doesn't do so

well is adjusting grind size so i'm

going to try to dial this in i'm making

the grind coarser so i'm going

uh counterclockwise and i hope this is

dialed in but once you get it right it

works out pretty good but i'm going to

grind some more coffee then i'll show

the fair house just for fun put the

beans in there make sure all of those

beans are inside and then i go in here

and let's grind the coffee again so i

made it a bit coarser i would say about

like four dots four to six dots coarser

and let's go again so this is even

easier to grind and i'm going to just

kind of do this and see how fast i can

grind it

usually i like to put this against like

my knee or something and you can go

really fast with this uh once you have

an anchor point for your body here but

it's nice and quiet like this is so nice

to be able to actually drive

so

i'm really trying to go at it probably

don't look the best right now on camera

but

i'm not struggling here which is the

crazy thing like there's no there's no

excess amount of beans that get stuck in

the birds and you they burst get jammed

like a pharos or hg1 this thing just

chews through those coffee beans so here

we go i'm reaching the end already and

that took me what maybe 45 to a minute

took a break in the middle but

this is mostly done now like that is

that is quite amazing considering this

is a hand grinder

okay here we go so

got all the beans out

18.1 there's probably a little bit of

exchange from before a little bit of

grounds in here doesn't really make a

difference you can definitely just

knock those out in there let me try

again to pull a shot that hopefully

won't choke my machine sometimes you can

get pretty lucky with the coffee that

you put in there so i just kind of

tossed it in there geeded it into there

and no grounds got stuck inside which is

awesome however because there were

coffee grounds on the edges on the

inside of there it does create those

small little clumps

uh there but you know you can just wdt

them out

and these grounds are really nice to wdt

because there aren't like five million

clumps in here that

other grinders may produce especially at

the finer end so

really easy to wdt and i would say even

these bigger conical burrs you can

they're still pretty forgiving

to your puck prep so you can definitely

just not be too crazy about your puck

prep and always get something that is

pretty good all right

looks decent enough to me

get the safe tamp

and

why not puck screen it

all right attempt number two but this is

the reality of using a flux

is uh you're gonna need to try multiple

times before you get it right

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there we go

this is looking a lot better

now the pressure is going to wrap up

because this is the cremina profile

nice

i'm only pulling to 36 grams

all right let me bring you guys in look

at this espresso

this is what's really nice about like

grinders like the niche the pharaohs and

the flux is you just get really nice

texture in your shots um of course this

is going to depend on what coffee you

use and this is a shot that's most

likely going to veer towards more

chocolate-ness but it's going to have

really big body because it is a big

conical burr grinder all right so i

pulled myself that nice shot from the

flex here

big body big conical very typical stuff

here it's a very comforting taste

you definitely get a lot of texture on

your tongue although this does of course

tastes more like chocolate

definitely not that high clarity that i

would personally prefer for a coffee

like this elixir whoosh but

honestly for most people this is going

to be really good for fun let me show

you the pharaohs in the original video i

actually shot that video many months ago

it was i was using blue bottle haze

valley which is uh charcoal compared to

the elixir coffee here i'm gonna put in

five grams of coffee

i i think five might be pushing it i

don't think i don't think i'm strong

enough to do more than five at least

with this i did make this grinder a

little bit finer but

i didn't put this in around pour over

range but actually you know what let's

let's try let's try going for our

espresso setting that on the pharaohs

here and let's see what happens

doing this for fun don't try this at

home kids you might break your arms you

might break yourself so i'm putting in

my five grams of coffee

i'm gonna do the uh dosing ring method

and um just because showing off the

pharaohs is really fun for me

i'm gonna take that little popcorn ring

off here knock all the beans

all right so i'm taking the little

popcorn thing and i'm knocking all those

beans inside of here

and it's quite amazing to see how

technology

yeah so i just popcorn those beans uh

over there okay hold on let me let me

pick those up so as i was saying it is

quite amazing how technology has

advanced in the world of uh titan hand

grinders in

this becoming the flux uh and i do

really think if it wasn't for orphan

espresso we would not have grinders like

the flux that exist um we needed to have

people providing you crazy high-end burs

in very affordable packages and that's

really what the pharos is so

let's see

i don't know i'm not feeling that

confident especially because i gotta

hold it up for the camera but uh let's

try it

okay that's not good off to good start

here we go so

all right you can you can definitely see

that this is very difficult to do with

one hand here

so yeah that's five grams there uh but

you can kind of see that they get stuck

in there and this just does not happen

on the flux at all so i don't know if

you're going to be able to see this but

you'll definitely be able to hear it is

hear how loud this grinder is compared

to the flux here and i'm really

struggling

so i don't even think this grind setting

is correct or it's there's no way this

is going to be as fine as the flux here

um but

here we go so there we go that's my

that's my five grams i am struggling i

look amazing on the camera right let me

take the bottom cork part out so that's

the other innovation that we've come in

the titan hand grinder world is we've

decided to allow you to grind into a

catch cup

that disassembles from the grinder

instead of doing something like this

so i'm just going to dump this out into

my hands

that did not come out

here we go and you don't have to knock

the grinder

to get a coffee like that

because this is definitely an espresso

grind size but like this is four or five

grams this is a lot of effort you're

really hearing that maybe i'm

potentially out of shape here um

but to do an equivalent grind size the

pharaohs requires a lot more effort even

though the burs are smaller than the

flux

and that's just simply put because you

don't have the gearing down that the

flux has you can see it's the same exact

coffee and i struggled a lot just to do

four or five grams um because i don't

have a ferrous that is bolted to the

table or motorized or anything like that

to do the exact same grind size it's so

much less effort on the flux definitely

worked out a worked up sweat using the

pharos uh here but that's the thing is

that it's quite interesting to look at

innovation in titan hand grinders or

really like handwriters in general

because this came out 10 years ago and

this is currently the i would say the

more modern iteration of the titan hand

grinder concept a lot of people look at

the pharaohs and they're like this is a

piece of garbage this thing doesn't work

well it's why would you anybody deal

with something like this back then

to get the same burrs the 68 mil

conicals you had to buy something like

the compact i think k10 which was two

three thousand dollars uh compared to

this thing which was only a few hundred

dollars and you get the equivalent

coffee out of both of those grinders so

really back then this was the value pick

although rsi is not the most fun thing

to deal with so i think having big burrs

especially in a grinder like this is

hilarious it's definitely not a meme

like the ferris is the ferris is

definitely a meme grinder that's why i

have one uh but the thing is is like

this is so much more usable you're

getting basically similar cups between

this and the pharos and the niche

although this is just infinitely more

usable because you can actually grind

the coffee and there is a catch cup it

chews through those light rose coffees

you're not struggling you don't have to

bolt the grinder down you don't have to

motorize it all to actually use it i do

want to talk about this though some guy

i think in china has created a

modification for this so you can

actually modify using 3d printed parts i

reached out to him he hasn't responded

to me yet but you can modify the flux

here to stick in 83 millimeter interval

burs that is hilarious now you might be

wondering who is this for because this

is really expensive 750 800 bucks why

not just buy a niche well it might

depend on where you live in the world

hello or grinders might actually be

cheaper in certain parts of the world

compared to the niche and you're getting

very similar performance with this and

the niche although the niche is so much

easier to dial in but this is a grinder

that you can bring around you don't need

electricity and i've actually brought

this grinder with me with my euro

piccolo on a work trip like i brought

those two with me i had my lovely

chocolatey espressos with my europila

and all of this fit in my suitcase i

can't really fit a niche and a you're a

pickle that easily and this thing will

just fit in like a backpack it's super

super easy to bring around the only

downsides with this thing are dialing in

dialing in this thing is not the easiest

thing in the world it's you you

definitely have to waste coffee to dial

it in and i also would come make some

complaints about this catch cup here

where this catch cup just creates clumps

and getting the coffee out of here is

not the easiest task every single time

but once you've figured out the workflow

it's very usable this is a grinder that

is probably the highest performing

portable hand grinder that exists right

now uh it is expensive but that's

it's it's built like a tank it feels

great to use and you know what it's

actually usable it chews through those

light roast coffees it doesn't jam and

it produces a very very amazing espresso

so that's all i wanted to show off today

that is the helor flux or healer 106.

this was this is just a really fun

grinder to use it is hilarious to me

that you can fit 71 mil conicals in a

grinder this big and it's actually

usable it's not something like the

pharos which makes you want to end your

life and you don't have to spin it 5

million times like the apex jack should

grind your coffee real quick before we

end the video i do want to note that

this grinder was sent to me by my friend

and if you do want to send anything in

my email is down there you can reach out

to me i will make a video about whatever

you send me it's just really fun i love

this grinder it is it was awesome it's

awesome but thank you for spending the

time to watch the video i will see you

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