Comments on: Manual Coffee Grinder – Portable Hand Coffee Grinder for Espresso & French Press, Adjustable Ceramic Burr Coffee Grinder for Travel, Home, and Camping, Perfect for Beginners and Coffee Enthusiasts

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:30:03 +0000

Adjustable with consistent grind
Good quality. Didn’t want an electric grinder again.(didn’t want to wake up the fam at 4am) This grinder is perfect for making a half pot of coffee. If you want a full pot you’ll have to grind a 2nd round. It has a sight window, quality aluminum construction, would buy again.

By: Malonie

Malonie — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:30:03 +0000

Neat
So far so good. I doubt it’ll last long but it’ll fun to use while it lasts.

By: Tobi

Tobi — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:30:03 +0000

Amazing manual grinder for the price
I have been looking for a manual coffee grinder to use with my camping pour over set but the grinder that was recommended retails for $160!!! While I LOVE my coffee, that is too much for me to spend on something I will not use all the time so I have been on the lookout for something comparable at a more affordable price. When I saw this grinder, I was shocked that it retails for only $16!!!With such a low price, I was cautiously optimistic. After receiving and inspecting the unit, it looks good for such an affordable price. The biggest issue is that all the caps and cups are held on purely by friction so you have to be aware and hold everything together or things can separate and fall out. Aside from that, the grinder seems to work very nicely.I tried to get a couple of different grinds, from coarse drip over to finer french press to very fine espresso and the grinder seemed to do a pretty good job at it. There is some trial and error to get the right setting since there is no way to accurately gauge what setting you are at. For me I will find the setting and leave it there. I don’t plan on making different grinds while I’m at the campsite.The biggest issue I found is that I am literally using the finest setting right before the inner and outer cones start to collide to get the espresso grind I was looking for. There is no stop to prevent you running the two cones together too closely and that will cause irreparable damage to the two ceramic grinding surfaces. That will also likely leave ceramic bits in with your coffee. My suggestion is if you are going for a very fine grind, test and slowly advance the screw. If you feel unnattural resistance, stop and back it off.Suffice to say, this is a great value and works well for the low retail price of $16. The best part for me is that this grinder will come apart and fit inside my camping pour over set in the same place that their $160+ grinder is meant to reside.

By: Works as advertised no complaints. Gold n silver melt fine.

Works as advertised no complaints. Gold n silver melt fine. — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:30:03 +0000

Hand grinding is not quick!
I like it. Let’s you control fineness well. Not a big grinder. 1 full load of beans makes 2 large cups for us the way we like it in a French press. Metal could be of larger Guage. But ok.

By: RangerY

RangerY — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:30:03 +0000

All metal body with viewing window, removable handle securely sits on shaft, just pull to open
This is a great manual coffee grinder which uses a hard shaped conical ceramic burr (like a sphere) as the grinding element. Iâve used an electric rotary blade coffee grinder, which results in uneven sized pieces of ground coffee bean. After learning that a grinder that uses a burr grinder is superior to a flat bladed rotary grinder, I purchased an all clear acrylic manual grinder. That one worked well but had a major flaw and several minor flaws when compared to this grinder. The all clear grinder when rotated by hand would break off tiny bits of the clear plastic/acrylic cylinder body of the grinder. Those bits of plastic fell into the ground coffee. The minor flaw with that design was that the handle needed to be secured in place with a nut, and access to the beans required screwing a top component in place. Without the top nut, the handle would pop off the shaft when rotated.In comparison this all metal grinder has none of those issues. The main vertical shaft upon which the hand will be placed is a five sided shaped vertical shaft. This shaft protrudes far enough up, that when the grinder is capped, the handle sits on onto this shaft very securely and no securing nut needs to be used. So, the handle can be quickly put in place or removed. To load beans, the top just needs to be pull up and off, no screwing of a lid piece is needed. To access ground beans, just pull up the body of the grinder from the bottom tube, no screwing required. This is very convenient and the clear peep-hole allow you to view the resulting ground beans as you go. As with all burr type grinders you will need to use some time to set how tight you screw adjust the burr. Once that is done, it will require infrequent readjustments. Helpful brief instructions discuss the burr adjustment and the warning to never turn you loaded grinder in a counter clockwise direction.

By: PH_Media

PH_Media — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:30:03 +0000

You get what you pay for – tastes better than preground coffee, but several serious negatives
I just found a Youtube video about how to keep the adjusting nut from loosening and making the grind change while using it. I don’t think I can link to it here, but it’s from @BeatTheBushDIY.Very fine grind takes a long time. Coarse grinds are reasonably quick.Pros:ceramic conical grinder, rather than bladesmakes coffee that tastes better than good prepackaged ground coffeecan grind pretty finegives you exercise and saves electricity, because it’s hand cranked :)Cons:The burrs are not spaced evenly around where they meet, so you get unevenly-sized grounds.The grind setting nut can loosen on its own, giving you coarser coffee than you want, and it can keep getting coarser.No markings to set grind size, beyond instructions to not screw in the knob so tight that the burrs rub each other.When I opened the knob to get a coarser grind, it was very coarse and uneven, so it will take some work experimenting to find the coarsest usable grind.I don’t know yet how coarse the coarsest uniform grind will be. I think the finest grind would work for Turkish style (boiled) coffee. You can feed the grounds back in if necessary to make it more powdery for that.