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Baratza's $149.95 Encore and $199.95 Encore ESP share 40 settings, the same listed grind rate, dimensions, capacity and one-year warranty. The ESP spends its $50 premium on a high-resolution espresso range, M2 quick-release burr and dosing cup.
The first kitchen appliance on the shelf, and the rare one built to be opened: the burr coffee grinder. We weigh Baratza (Washington State, founded in the late 1990s) against the hand grinders that have no motor to fail, set the roughly $14-a-year floor in the series ledger beside the skillet's $1.30, the kettle's sub-$100, the wok's ~$3.70, and the Dutch oven's $7.50, and answer the question the closed five-tool spine left open — whether a motorized tool can join a shelf built for things made to be repaired. The one appliance whose wear part is a cheap component you swap, while the machine around it stays.