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Comandante C40 Nitro Blade Coffee Grinder MK4 (Virginia Walnut)
All Comandante grinders sold by K+ Coffee are genuine MK4 Version made in Germany. We are official UK stockist for Comandante grinders and accessories, please feel free to contact Comandante to verify.
Say hello to two new sumptuous colours from Comandante! Virginia Walnut and Liquid Amber are both newly launched in the UK!
The new luxury wood finishes are responsibly sourced from sustainable forests and each grinder is carefully hand-finished to ensure each one is absolutely perfect.
The wood is selected for each grinder based on its incredible natural patterns and grain. The most outstanding pieces are chosen for wrapping around the metal grinder body, meaning no two Comandantes are ever the same.
“Working with 100% natural hard woods is particularly difficult, but for us the result is totally worth it. The warmth of wood has always been at the heart of our design. The diversity of the wood grain appearing on each slice is beautiful!” – Comandante
For these Premium Wood models of our beloved C40 Mk4 Nitro Blade grinder, we responsibly source trees from our local partners and carefully select the most beautiful pieces of timber.
The incredible natural patterns of the wood grain, which emerge on each slice. Trees are such a valuable natural resource, so it’s not only important to responsibly source them, we feel it’s our duty to do every piece justice and make sure every grinder shows the beauty of the wood!
Our passionate crafts- men and women carefully laminate the veneer onto the stainless steel grinder body, before it is meticulously sanded and polished with a natural hard wax oil. The latter is repeated several times in order to get the desired smooth and shiny surface.
It’s a particularly difficult process when you’re working with hard woods, but for us the result is totally worth it. This combination of the robustness of steel and the beauty and warmth of wood has always been at the heart of our design since the get go.
It goes without saying that the visual effect is important. For us, the user’s tactile experience is absolutely crucial too. It’s a difference that you can see, feel, and even hear whilst grinding.
The iconic Comandante C40 is a robust, high performance grinder with an advanced and pioneering burr set: Nitro Blade. And the new Mk4 generation just got even better!
Thanks to some smart material science, reworked internals and the addition of a basically unbreakable polymer-glass Bean Jar, the Comandante C40 Mk4 offers improved workflow, weight, and durability.
The burr material and design is the proud result of years of dedicated research and development at Comandante’s onsite coffee lab. Nitro Blade is unique, using a high-alloyed, high-nitrogen stainless steel with a fine martensitic micro-crystal matrix.
Burr Geometry has been optimised to achieve excellent Bean Thruput with a reduced Crank Torque and at the same time deliver a refined Particle Size Distribution for best brewing results
Comandante’s click system gives you full control for any brewing method and locks your preferred grind setting into place, helping you get the very best out of your roasted coffee and repeat the results again and again. This world class grind performance has made Nitro Blade the weapon of choice for true coffee enthusiasts around the globe, from home baristas to World Brewers Cup champions.
Weighing in at just over 600g, the C40’s compact size and robust nature means that whether you’re at home or off on an adventure, the world’s best manual grinder is your loyal companion.
The MK4: What’s new
The MK4 is the latest updated version of Comandante’s C40 nitro-blade hand grinder. In fact, the MK4 has been designed with complete backwards compatibility, so all parts are interchangeable with the MK3 model. Fans of the MK3 will find a comforting familiarity in the design and performance while enjoying some amazing new features:
- New ‘indestructible’ polymer bean jar is lighter and more durable than the glass one (also included). The polymer jars are consistently weighted and so better to use in brewing competitions. They also boast heat insulation properties so can be used as a cup if you’re brewing coffee on the go!
- Freshly designed axel frame means there is now no chance of beans getting stuck in the engine frame
- Smaller box with improved protection and brand new manual; now completely made from sustainable materials.
All these changes make for improved workflow, weight, practicality and durability.
Burr
The burr material and design is the proud result of years of dedicated research and development at Comandante®’s onsite coffee lab. Nitro Blade® is unique, using a high-alloyed, high-nitrogen stainless steel with a fine martensitic micro-crystal matrix.
Burr Geometry has been optimised to achieve excellent Bean Thruput with a reduced Crank Torque and at the same time deliver a refined Particle Size Distribution for best brewing results.
Grind adjustment
Comandante click system gives you full control for any brewing method and locks your preferred grind setting into place, helping you get the very best out of your roasted coffee and repeat the results again and again. This world class grind performance has made Nitro Blade the weapon of choice for true coffee enthusiasts around the globe, from home baristas to World Brewers Cup champions.
Design
Stainless steel is the right choice to build a robust and food safe coffee grinder. That is why not only the burr is made of stainless steel, but also the body, axle, crank and micro ball bearings. Comandante products are aluminium free.
Where polymers can be used to improve performance, Comandante uses BPA-free high-performance polymers that meet the strictest food-safety standards. These materials are engineered to endure years of heavy use.
Comandante loves natural wood. The solid oak handles, produced by friends in Germany’s Black Forest, are both wonderfully ergonomic and beautiful to look at thanks to oak’s unique grain structure.
For the Classic and Premium Wood models, Comandante craftsmen laminate a thin layer of beautiful wood onto the stainless steel body, before waxing and polishing it with meticulous dedication.
Every C40 MK4 comes with one brown glass Bean Jar and one clear polymer-glass Bean Jar. Both are super easy to clean and hold around 40g of roasted coffee beans. Weighing in at just over 600g, the C40’s compact size and robust nature mean that whether you’re at home or off on an adventure, the world’s best manual grinder is your loyal companion.
