This analysis is outdated. Please reanalyze.

Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha

Initializing Fakespot Chat

error

System error,

Loading suggested questions

Suggested Questions

athena-arrow

Suggested Questions

No suggested questions were found

Please note: The content is generated by an AI language model based on reviews. We are constantly improving the accuracy, however, its outputs may contain errors or offensive content from certain reviews. Please report any errors or offensive content to us. Also, please note that we will not collect your questions unless you click the thumbs up/down button to provide feedback. The answers displayed will be stored by us so if another Fakespotter asks a similar question we can provide them an answer faster. Your feedback will only help us make Fakespot Chat better! By using Fakespot Chat, you agree to Fakespot's terms of use and privacy notice.

Pros & Cons

Update Pros and Cons
The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Pros

This grinder looks downright lovely. While not inexpensive, the grinder performs beautifully. Pid wonderful grinder.

The anti-static plastic bin seems, so far, to live up to it's description. This one captures the grounds nicely in the container. My kitchen scale has one-gram resolution.

Calibration is easy, whether you want to focus more on chasing the perfect shot of espresso or want a broader range of grind settings. The micro-adjustments make it easy to get the perfect grind setting for every brewing method. One drawback is that i...  Read More



Cons

Worked great for the first 3. Now it constantly clogs with multiple beans. The grinder grinds, but the grinds won't push down the *, so everything backs up. It works great when working but after some amount of time it starts out grinding the coffee to...  Read More

Was this feature helpful?

Highlights

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Quality


Easy to use, infinite dose-weight adjustments, easy to remove the top burr to clean inside periodically.


5 years after purchasing this grinder, it still works great and has needed 0 repairs.


Also stopped working once and after cleaning, resetting, reset again, it worked


The bin is plastic, and “anti-static” claims by the manufacturer notwithstanding, grounds do too cling.

Price


If you can get past the price, i'd highly recommend.


While not inexpensive, the grinder performs beautifully (if not knocked to the floor) for years with consistency.


Once you get into the $200 range you are getting, basically, the same thing from your middle to high-end conical burr grinders.


It's expensive, but it is worth every penny if you are a coffee aficionado.

Shipping


By the way, the service rep hadactual knowledge of servicing vario-w products, who looked at emailed photos of my board and con...  Read More


The new drive belt is $14 shipped, and i'm confident that this machine is going to be in service for another 10 years.

Packaging/appearance


Finally, i ended up with an aluminum foil-covered paper picnic plate that can open flat or fold into a vee shape as a sort of m...  Read More

Competitiveness


That said, i am able to pull shots every bit as good as the cafes around seattle, i just can't quite nerd out about my espresso...  Read More


You get nice, even grinds every time, and it's fairly quiet and quick compared to other grinders i've owned.


I don't know of another grinder that features flat burrs at a comparable price point, let alone with a weight-based feature.


2 grams, but i brew with a chemex so that small of a variance is totally okay.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, easy, first, plastic and old.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 6.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 61 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 18 2024.

Helpful InsightsBETA

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Ive had one variow for about 10 years which i have had in daily service since i bought it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its survived about five moves too


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I bought a second variow for decaf two years ago


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    In addition to being a precise grinder with a very convenient scale feature perfect for home use theres something about this grinder which i didnt realize when i bought it baratza grinders are incredibly easy to servicemy first grinders logic board was destroyed by an electrical surge no fault of baratza


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For most of the junk i buy that would mean throwing it away and buying an new one


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    By the way the service rep hadactual knowledge of servicing variow products who looked at emailed photos of my board and confirmed my diagnosis of a blown resistor and point me to the exact part i needed to buy within one day of me mailing baratza


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Now after 10 years the drive belt on my original variow has got some stripped teeth and its slipping against the motor shaft pulley


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The weird problem is that the bin that holds the ground coffee is made of a plastic that is superhighstatic

Review Count History
Loading...
Price History
Loading...

Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha

Initializing Fakespot Chat

error

System error,

Loading suggested questions

Suggested Questions

athena-arrow

Suggested Questions

No suggested questions were found

Please note: The content is generated by an AI language model based on reviews. We are constantly improving the accuracy, however, its outputs may contain errors or offensive content from certain reviews. Please report any errors or offensive content to us. Also, please note that we will not collect your questions unless you click the thumbs up/down button to provide feedback. The answers displayed will be stored by us so if another Fakespotter asks a similar question we can provide them an answer faster. Your feedback will only help us make Fakespot Chat better! By using Fakespot Chat, you agree to Fakespot's terms of use and privacy notice.

Add Fakespot to your browser, Secure Shopping on the go.

Supported on Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Bestbuy, and many more.

Download Fakespot for Browsers
Download for the Chrome Web store
Download for Firefox Addons
1 million plus shoppers trust Fakespot