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The number of hoppers provided in the design of the coffee maker. This parameter is specified only for models that have several hoppers at once.

A hopper is a container for coffee beans provided in a coffee maker with a built-in coffee grinder (see above). The presence of several such containers (usually 2, less often 3) allows you to load several sorts of coffee into the device at once and select the sort according to the user's taste when preparing each cup. On the other hand, this feature significantly complicates the design and increases its cost. In addition, coffee particles from the previous grinding, remaining on the millstones, inevitably fall into the next grinding. Thus, it is not recommended to load coffee sorts that differ significantly in taste and aroma into the hoppers — for example, regular and additionally flavored beans: in such cases, coffee from one hopper can significantly affect the taste of coffee from another.

The amount of coffee that can be loaded into the built-in coffee grinder at one time (see above). The larger the capacity of the coffee grinder, the less often it will have to be “reload” and the more coffee can be prepared at one “filling”. For ease of evaluation, we recall that it takes 7 g of coffee to prepare one standard portion of espresso.