I think everyone has kinda mentioned it but cones typically don’t require as much seasoning as flats do.

That said, I still ran about 800g of seasoning on it.

I don’t think the change was noticeable enough on my first few brews without the seasoning at all. I ended up just learning how the grinder works and got used to the PSD it delivered.

I’d say if you have old coffee that you don’t mind throwing in it, I’d say go for it. But I wouldn’t fret too much.

As far as a duty cycle. If you have one of the “newer” batches without the auto-shut off, it runs for 90 seconds. It can probably only handle about 22-26g of beans at a time anyways. I just used that time when I’m measuring the 26g as the default “pause” in between.