Manual Coffee Grinder with Adjustable Ceramic Conical Burr Brushed Stainless Steel Hand Crank Mill for Drip Coffee, Espresso, French Press, Turkish Brew

This is the perfect little hand grinder! The top unscrews to add the beans, it holds a couple of tablespoons at a time. On the bottom side is a switch that allows you to change how fine or coarse you want to grind the beans. This can also be used to grind herbs, I’ve used it to grind fresh rosemary. It’s easy to clean as it comes apart into 3 pieces. It’s small enough to take with you when traveling but large enough to grind a substantial amount of beans or herbs. Definitely a great deal for the price!

It came nicely packaged in a small box. I read the instructions and wiped it down before use. It has a lid with a handle, a cylinder with some kind of ceramic piece that grinds the beans and at the bottom of the cylinder you're able to rotate the inside left or right to adjust how large you want your grounds. A small plastic cup attaches snugly to the cylinder and catches the grounds. The particular amount I prefer for my coffee was one and a half plastic cup fulls. I found a nice way to feed the beans into the grinder is fill one of your palms with beans, rest the cylinder on the side of your palm and let the beans slide in to the grinder. While rotating the handle it makes about as much noise as someone eating crunchy cereal. I appreciate this because I accidentally bought coffee beans rather than grounds and it's an affordable way to crush up the beans rather than between two cups using muscle. When you first get it, be sure to loosen or turn the grounds-lever-thing at the bottom of the cylinder to the left a bit, you'll see it open up in a circle within the cylinder to allow larger shavings of bean through. Otherwise you may find it difficult to rotate at first and it may shave off ceramic clay. I bought the stainless steel version.

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I was pleasantly surprised by how substantial this feels in the hand. The crank action is smooth with no wobble, and the ceramic burrs bite into the beans cleanly without heating them up. Flavor has been consistently bright and full, whether I set it for pour over, French press, or a finer espresso grind. It is also quieter than expected, which makes early morning grinding less disruptive on cold winter mornings. The stainless components feel solid and the overall fit is tidy, so it packs neatly for the office or travel. Dialing in the grind size with the bottom adjuster is straightforward after a couple of tries, though espresso does take more turns of the handle and a bit of patience. For larger brew batches the capacity is on the smaller side, so I do a quick second fill. Cleanup is easy since it comes apart quickly and rinses without trapping grounds, and I have not noticed any lingering odors. Those minor points aside, it delivers reliable, even grounds and feels robust every time I use it. If you want a manual grinder that is smooth to operate and built to last, this is an excellent choice.

The Good: This grinder does what it's supposed to do. After a month of daily use, I have been very happy with the consistency of the grind. The Bad: 1. The translucent plastic pieces of this grinder are prone to small cracks. That would be the top cover, and more importantly, the container at the bottom that catches the ground coffee. After a month of use, they have dozens of hairline cracks. So far it has held together, here's hoping that continues. 2. This grinder takes a lot of manual effort. I've gotten better at it, but it still takes 2 minutes of cranking to get one cup's worth of coffee at a grind level slightly finer than drip. This works well for single serve coffee applications like Aeropress, but would require probably 10 minutes of grinding for a full pot. Also, the grinder is hard to grip while cranking (small and a bit slick). 3. The grind size control is extremely basic. When I bought it, I thought there were a handful of fixed grind size settings. That is not really the case. Instead, the selector is a wheel that clicks around in circles endlessly, with no way of knowing the size other than trying it out. This is ok if you always want the same grind size, but it is bad if you want to go back and forth between different grind sizes.