Handground Precision Manual Coffee Grinder: Conical Ceramic Burr Mill
$59.95
Price: $59.95
(as of Feb 01, 2025 18:48:51 UTC – Details)
Product Description
Why design a hand coffee grinder from scratch? – Many hand grinders are difficult to use. We felt like you should enjoy every part of the coffee preperation experience, including the gring. In order to make this happen we spent over a year trying to wrap our heads around every aspect of coffee culture and the grind process. We interviewed hundreds of baristas, cafe owners and individual coffee enthusiasts to find out how we could make an improved version of a manual hand coffee grinder. Our feedback told us that there were 3 main problems with most manual coffee griners.
1) Ease of Use – Most horizontal manual coffee grinders were difficult to use and inconvenient.
2) Consistency – Many grinders struggle to consistently grind beans to a uniform coarseness (particle size).
3) Setup and Tear Down – We were repeatedly told that loading manual coffee grinders and cleaning them after use was negatively affecting their coffee brewing experience.
With this information and a host of peripheral survey data we set out to engineer a new kind of manual grinder. Our goal was to make a hand grinder that was simple and elegant while being surprisingly durable and easy to use. We wanted to create something that avoided the major drawbacks of most manual grinders. With these goals in mind we created the Handground precision manual coffee grinder.
Have your favorite coffee experience with the Handground manual coffee grinder. Whether you enjoy French Press, Pour Over, Cold Brew or regular Drip Coffee, the Handground Manual Coffee Grinder provides you with the ability to precisely grind to your preferred coarseness.
Handground’s Easy to Use, Vertical Hand Crank Coffee Mill makes far less noise than electric grinders, which means you can enjoy the freshest ground coffee whithout disturbing precious loved ones or pets who might want to continue sleeping!
Some Important Features
→ Built-in Adjustable Grind Selector gives you precise control over the coarseness of your grind.
→ Handy wide-mouth hopper lets you pack your grinder with enough beans for everyone without having to stop and re-load the grinder.
→ No batteries or electricity are required so you can enjoy fresh ground coffee while traveling or spending time in the great outdoors.
Serious updates
→ (2018) – re-engineered main drive shaft and burr assembly stiffens the drive assembly and protects against wear and tear.
Your coffee community:
Your invited to join! Our community of coffee enthusiasts, baristas and cafe owners guide our product development and company culture.
Manual Made Easy
Handground is the first portable manual coffee grinder with a side mounted handle. Placing the handle on the side allows for a more natural motion and the ability to place your opposite hand on top of the grinder for stabilization. The handle is made from solid aluminum and complimented by a beautiful pakka wood knob.
Consistent Grind Every Time
Running down the center of Handground is a stainless steel axle that drives the burr mill. The axle is mounted on metal bushings in three locations to keep it stable while grinding and eliminate burr wobble. Each axle is milled on a 5 axis CNC that maintains tolerances of 0.004 inches. The combination of added stability and razor thin tolerances allows Handground to achieve a consistent grind, every time.
Lock And Load
The hopper opens extra wide so loading up to 100 grams of coffee is a breeze. The top locks on with a quarter twist to prevent beans from flying out while grinding. If there isn’t a scale available, each measurement mark on the side of the hopper represents ~10 grams of beans.
Grind For Any Brew
We drew inspiration from the focus ring on a camera lens so selecting the right grind size is simple. Twist the numbered ring to setting 1 to produce an espresso grind or 8 for French Press. There is a step in between each number for a total of 15 coarseness settings.
Balanced Speed & Effort
At the heart of Handground is a 40mm conical ceramic burr mill that crushes coffee beans into an even particle size. The geometry of the burr is fine tuned to balance the speed which it grinds and the torque required to turn the handle. The result is that grinding takes just the right amount of effort in the right amount of time.
NEW & IMPROVED Updated version of the original Handground grinder designed by thousands of coffee enthusiasts around the world to achieve a consistent grind using the hand crank mill for any bean
ADJUSTABLE GRIND SELECTOR with 15 settings giving precision to the coarseness of grind for your Pour Over, Drip, Chemex, Cold Brew, French Press, AeroPress or your specific brewing method.
CONSISTENT GRINDING With A 40mm conical ceramic burr mill and triple mounted axle. Each axle is milled on a 5 axis CNC that maintains tolerances of 0.004 inches. The combination of added stability and razor thin tolerances allows Handground to achieve a consistent grind, every time.
DURABLE, PORTABLE, AND QUIET with a convenient removable hand crank mechanism consistently eliminates over 90% of the noise that electric grinders produce. Great for camping, traveling, and everyday home brewing.
FULL COVERAGE WARRANTY! *NEW* All grinders ship with a 1 Year Manufacturers Full Warranty.
Customers say
Customers appreciate the manual food mill grinder’s consistent grind, functionality, and ease of use. They find it works well for coarse grinds like French press or drip coffee, and the silicone mat prevents sliding. Many customers find it simple to set and experiment with different grinds. The clean design fits well in most kitchens. However, some customers have mixed opinions on the build quality, grind speed, and overall coffee quality.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Valeriy Slobodyanyuk –
Great for Turkish coffee
I’m using this grinder for more than 3.5 years and have to say that it’s the best one to prepare Turkish coffee. I tried various grinders and this is the only one that grinds the beans into the powder you need for a good coffee. The only negative things to say about it is that it’s quite squeaky, so, I sometimes have to use earplugs. Also, it takes 5-10 minutes to prepare one portion (depending on the beans). But still it’s nothing if you want to enjoy a real Turkish coffee.
LHampton –
Totally Awesome Coffee Grinder
The Handground coffee grinder is the top-of-the-line coffee grinder. I love that you can dial the grind you want. I love the side-mounted lever to operate the grinder. I love their website that has many, many recipes to grind & brew coffee. Expensive, but worth it. Well done to the entrepreneurs who researched & made this device.11-Oct-2017I have owned the Handground coffee grinder for nearly 4 months and highly recommend it. It has transformed my coffee-drinking experience. Let me tell you how.(Side note: go to the Handground web site & read the story of how they developed it using crowd-sourcing ideas. The founders worked hard to incorporate the best of all the suggestions. Fantastic!)Here is what I love about the Handground coffee grinder.First, the grinding handle is on the side rather than the top. Duh! Much easier to use.Second, the grinding burr is securely mounted in two points so you get a CONSISTENT grind. Inconsistent grind bothered me with my old grinder as I could see the burr move from side to side in the grinding chamber so the coffee was not ground consistently.Third, they have calibrated the burr so you can easily select how coarse or fine you want the coffee grounds. You simply turn the dial to the coarseness you want. The dial moves with a nice âclickâ from setting to setting. Let me talk more about this.I brew coffee several different ways. Sometimes I want an Americano so I grind the coffee fine. Sometimes I make a pour-over and the coffee needs to be slightly coarser. Sometimes I use my Chemex knock-off, coarser still. Last I may use my French Press or Clever Dripper, very coarse.Try making those different grinds with your normal coffee grinder. It frustrated me. I had to turn the nut on the spindle to adjust the burr in the grinding chamber, but how many times do I turn it? And in which direction? Where was it set before?Was my last brew an expresso or a pour-over? If I want to use my French Press do I spin the nut five times or four times or three times? Which way do I turn it, by the way?I would hold my grinder up to my face so I could peer down into the grinding chamber to see how small the opening was in the chamber. Is that fine enough? Maybe one more twist. No thatâs too fine, back a half-twist. It was truly a hit-or-miss exercise.Handground removes all that frustration. It has 15 different settings, 1 through 8 with a half-step between the whole numbers. Do I want an espresso grind? I dial 1.5. Do I want a pour-over? I dial 4. Am I making a French Press? I dial 7. This is easy and consistent.Iâve had so much fun with the Handground. Their web site lists 66 different ways to brew coffee using an AeroPress (within a Handground, of course). My co-worker & I have spent 3 months trying each method plus some variations of our own. Weâve had a lot of fun and have learned a lot about brewing coffee. You could never do these âexperimentsâ without an accurate, consistent coffee grinder.Last, attention to detail & customer support has been fantastic. When you buy the device they include a very, very thin washer. Why? If the â1â setting does not grind the coffee fine enough for you, you can insert this thin washer into the mechanism to make the grind just slightly finer. Wow! Also, I lost the nut that holds the burr onto the spindle. (Donât ask me how – I have no idea.) After contacting Support they set me a replacement thumb nut. Excellent!I thoroughly enjoy my Handground coffee grinder and unconditionally recommend it. It is worth the price if you like to grind your own coffee.
Secure69 –
I got 22 months of morning coffee
Every morning since April 2018, I would grind one scoop of beans at the largest setting, 8, for my French Press cup of mocha. It was quick, it was easy, in about 25 to 30 revolutions of the handle I had my coffee grounds ready to go. Cleaning was fairly easy but the bean oils were difficult to remove inside the top hopper.A while ago, Iâm not certain as to when this began, I felt a grinding sensation rotating the hand crank when I was done grinding the beans and there were no beans left to grind. I didnât pay any attention to it. If I had known this symptom was the precursor to failure I would have stopped and solve the problem. Hint! Hint!If you are using a Handground Precision Manual Coffee Grinder, heed my warning: if you rotate the handle with no beans in the hopper and youâre feeling and hearing a rhythmic thumping, grinding sensation and sound, the internal gears are out of synchronization. The gears are not meshing the way they did originally because the gear set screws are loose. Do not rotate the crank anymore. The top cap assembly needs replacement. If your Handground Precision Manual Coffee Grinder is still under warranty, send it in for repair/replacement.Otherwise, you will have to disassemble the top cap assembly.WARNING THIS IS NOT TO BE ATTEMPTED IF YOU ARE THE LEAST BIT SENSITIVE TO THE SIGHT OF BLOOD OR INTERNAL WORKING MECHANISM! Or if you lack mechanical aptitude, the tools or the time.This will take some specialized tools, Phillips head screw driver of a particularly small size and a 1 mm Allen wrench, hex head wrench. Be aware that there may be spacing washers or shims on the shafts of all these drive gears. If they are present, they will need to be returned to the same position. The three screws holding the top cap together are Phillips head, use a precise sized Phillips driver or you will round off the Phillips screws and then you have a paperweight. Carefully remove the screws and place them in a secure container, my preference is a Titan Tools 11061 Mini Magnetic Parts Tray.After you have disassembled the top cap assembly, you will see six more Phillips head screws securing the cover plate of the gearbox. Carefully remove those six screws, theyâre small, put them in the same secure container. In figure one you will see the exposed gears under the cover. In this same image youâll also see the set screw securing the gear to the drive shaft. The sets crew is the problem, it has become loose. The set screw is a 2.5 mm screw and I think it will require a 1 mm hex drive Allen tool to remove it. Do so very carefully this is an extremely small screw. Place the screw in the secured container. You can now pull the crank shaft out and remove the gear. Now the vertical driveshaft is exposed and can be removed. Remove that set screw as well, I donât need to tell you what to do with that set screw, right?Figure three is the underside of the gearbox cover, and you can see a lot of debris and pieces of metal. Clean out the interior of the gearbox carefully, you want it absolutely clean.The two gears appear to be interchangeable, however, if they are not you must return them to the same original position in the gearbox. Take whatever steps are necessary to ensure this happens. Use a magnifying glass to closely evaluate the gears if they appeared undamaged they can be used again.You will want to have some thread locking fluid before you reinstall the set screws. Using an appropriate solvent, follow the cleaning instructions accompanying the thread locking fluid.Clean the gears very thoroughly removing any oils and debris. Be sure to clean the inside of the threads for the set screws as well as the set screws, according to the instructions for the thread locking fluid. Allow the cleaning solvent to dry thoroughly.Now youâre ready to reassemble. Being mindful to return any spacer washers to the original position, place the gear on the vertical shaft aligning the hole for the set screw with the flat surface on the shaft, following the instructions of the thread locking fluid apply the fluid, it will take very little on a screw this size. I put the fluid on a toothpick and then applied a very small amount on the screw threads while the set screw was on the Allen wrench. Insert the set screw back into the hole and tighten down snugly. Wipe off any excess thread Locking fluid. Replace the vertical drive shaft with secured gear, into the hole of the top cap, checking to be sure it rotates freely. Slide the hand crankshaft into the top cap aligning the appropriate gear (and any washer spacers) with the shaft as you insert the shaft into the gear. Align the screw whole with a flat surface on the shaft. Repeat the procedure for the previous screw. Using the toothpick technique, place a small amount of light silicone oil on the gears. (WD-40 is a Water Dispersant, not a lubricating oil. That is what WD stands for) Replace the gearbox cover, screw in place, do not over tighten the screws, it is easy to do. Somebody told me that. Reassemble the head and youâre back in business.In my effort to accomplish what you have just done, I discovered the gears had been severely damaged. They would still work but for how long, I do not know. My caution about having a magnetic storage place for your screws is the result of losing one of the set screws. They both fell from the table onto the floor. Amazingly I found one but the other did not reappear. Thatâs how I found out what size they are when I bought a new one cost: 30¢ I have been able to reassemble the drive, and it does work but it still has that vibration feeling and sound I described originally. No idea how much longer this will last but thatâs OK, I purchased a replacement thinking my Handground Precision Manual Coffee Grinder was done for. Iâll do a review on the new one after Iâm done with this review.
Martinoni N. –
Mechanische Eigenschaften sind nur für sehr selten gebrauch, sonst finger davon Getriebe und Lager haben keinen Wert.Eine Stern ist eigentlich zu viel, aber ohne kann man nicht melden.
Cliente Amazon –
La manivela vertical hace muy cómodo su uso. Buena apariencia en los materiales. La selección del grano de molienda es sencilla. Muele bien el café. La parte negativa en mi caso es que después de 2 años han fallado los engranajes de la tapa superior. Dificultad para encontrar el repuesto a un precio razonable.
bordenave sylvie –
Achat effectué en 2020 et malgré une utilisation moindre, lâengrenage est déjà mort !!!Je ne recommande pas ce produit car vu le prix dâachat , je ne mâattendais pas à ce que ça lâche aussi vite!
Sirocco –
It is beautifully made and grinds coffee to the exact fine ness required from expresso to filter. I use it every day to grind the coffee Iâll use that day as coffee tastes better freshly ground. A really lovely machine; it looks great out on the worktop too.
Mark Docken –
This is bigger than I thought but that’s good. You can grind enough in one go for 5 or more people to have espresso. It’s solid, built from quality materials and beautifully crafted. Buy this, and not a poorly designed fancy electronic grinder that you can’t use when the power goes out. You can get this grinder to grind fine enough for espresso by installing the two calibration washers. It won’t grind for espresso out of the box but worth the effort to install the washers. There is a video on their website with step by step instructions. Would buy it again but I probably won’t need to because it’s simple and well built and will likely last a lifetime.