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My nearly new Ultra Grind + (wet grinder) like the Santha , is
just about worn out after 8 months of abuse. When I started this
hobby "from the bean" I really didn't know about keeping the
cocoa mass warm, pre-ginding sugar in a food processor, adding a
little extra cocoa butter to make the conching process easier on
the machine. My bad.  Worst of all, I let friends talk me into
making milk chocolate and just dumped the dry milk in the
chocolate all at once.  Now I need to buy a new machine and like
the Ultra Grind + pretty well. Does anyone have any other
suggestions on preference of machines like this? Is there
anything just a little bigger or more powerful? Any machine with
extra options that might make it last longer? without getting
over $1000 in cost?  I'm using 110 volt. I do batch sizes of 5
to ten lbs of beans. I'd like to use more organic, and unrefined
cane sugar but I know that may be harder on the machine than
refined white table sug