Niche Zero
- Grind range
- up to 1161 µm
- Per click
- ≈20 µm
- Adjustment
- Stepless
- Brew methods
- 19
At its coarsest it reaches about 1161 µm, so Percolator, French Press, and Cold Brew sit partly beyond its range.
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About the Niche Zero
The Niche Zero is an electric grinder with 63 mm conical burrs and stepless adjustment. At its coarsest it reaches about 1161 µm, so Percolator, French Press, and Cold Brew sit partly beyond its range. Each click moves the grind by roughly 20 µm.
What we found on this machine
Checked against
Niche's "The ultimate grind size guide for Niche grinders". Read September 07, 2026.
This page used to carry numbers filed under Niche's own name, as though they came out of the box with the grinder. They did not. The instruction leaflet Niche ships carries no per-method table at all — it says only that the grinder is "factory calibrated and adjusted to setting 20".
Niche does publish a table, on its own site, and checking against it was not close. Four of the five methods Niche names were wrong here, and three had no overlap with the maker's band whatsoever: we had AeroPress at 12-18 where Niche says 30-35, V60 at 18-22 against 35-45, moka at 14-18 against 20-30. Anyone following this page was grinding up to 2.3 times finer than Niche recommends.
The five methods Niche names are now Niche's own figures. Drip, chemex and cold brew were dropped rather than kept under a maker's name the maker never gave them — they are interpolated between the five, which is both honest and, for the first time on this grinder, anchored to something published. The old cold-brew row also ran to 55 on a dial that stops at 50, so it was printing a setting the machine cannot be set to.
The table's numbers were read out of the page's own HTML rather than off a rendering of it. The neighbouring Niche Duo column holds different numbers in every row, and one mis-read cell has already cost this catalogue a whole grinder's curve.
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French press is published as "45+" and is recorded here as 45-50, because 50 is where the dial ends. That is what the maker means and all the maker gives.
Methods the Niche Zero covers
5 of these 19 settings are Niche's own published figures. The rest are worked out from this grinder's range. Start there and adjust to taste.
- Espresso 5–20 on the dial · roughly 200–300 µm Fine From the maker
- Moka Pot 20–30 on the dial · roughly 300–400 µm Fine From the maker
- Pour Over (V60) 35–45 on the dial · roughly 450–650 µm Medium-fine From the maker
- Chemex 40–44 on the dial · roughly 700–900 µm Medium-coarse
- AeroPress 30–35 on the dial · roughly 400–700 µm Medium-fine From the maker
- French Press 45–50 on the dial · roughly 900–1200 µm Coarse From the maker
- Cold Brew 46–50 on the dial · roughly 1000–1400 µm Extra coarse
- Drip / Batch 37–42 on the dial · roughly 600–800 µm Medium
- Siphon 33–40 on the dial · roughly 500–700 µm Medium
- Cold Drip 40–44 on the dial · roughly 700–900 µm Medium-coarse
- Percolator 45–50 on the dial · roughly 900–1200 µm Coarse
- Cuccumella 33–40 on the dial · roughly 500–700 µm Medium
- Kaapi Filter 35–45 on the dial · roughly 450–650 µm Medium-fine
- Jebena 33–40 on the dial · roughly 500–700 µm Medium
- Chorreador 35–45 on the dial · roughly 450–650 µm Medium-fine
- Dallah 6–28 on the dial · roughly 200–400 µm Fine
- Cafe de Olla 42–46 on the dial · roughly 800–1000 µm Medium-coarse
- Prestina 33–40 on the dial · roughly 500–700 µm Medium
- Vietnamese Phin 42–46 on the dial · roughly 800–1000 µm Medium-coarse
Niche Zero — frequently asked questions
Is the Niche Zero a manual or electric grinder?
The Niche Zero is an electric grinder with 63 mm conical burrs.
What grind sizes can the Niche Zero produce?
At its coarsest the Niche Zero reaches about 1161 µm, covering 19 of the brew methods we chart. Its finest setting isn't published, so we don't state one.
Can I copy grind settings from another grinder to the Niche Zero?
Not directly — every grinder's scale is arbitrary, so a number that works on one model won't match the Niche Zero. Match the micron range instead, using the chart above.