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I received this product yesterday and did a taste test this morning. It’s a 5 star machine for most people I think, but I gave it 4 stars because the coarse grind setting could go to one or two settings coarser and it’s not as precise as my Krups-style grinder for mixing my caff and decaf beans.Pros: +Looks nice enough on the counter although it’s a bit big. +Creates a consistent grind. +Pleasantly surprised at the quality of the coffee (objective#1). +The machine seems to be of good quality considering the price I paid. +I think I will be able to use less coffee beans for the same strength of coffee (objective#2).Cons (some of these I knew when I bought it and am willing to deal with): -It’s louder than my little Krups. -It’s not very portable to bring on vacation. Also, sometimes I would fill my Krups then walk over to the garage with the door closed to grind so I don’t wake the household on my early mornings. I can’t see doing this with this machine. -It’s too big to keep in a cabinet and take out each morning. I don’t like cluttered kitchen counters. -My big disappointment is that the most coarse grind is still not coarse enough for what I was looking for. See photo. I do not like any bitterness to my coffee, and my experience has been the more fine the grind, the more bitter the coffee. But as I said, I was pleasantly surprised that the coffee tasted pretty good…as good or better than my usual. I would have liked to do a taste test at a coarser grind though. I use the pour-over method (see photo) to make coffee and have always used a 2-second grind/shake/2-second grind method on my Krups for coarse grinds. Admittedly there are a few coffee beans that would come out whole or just halved with this method, thus my desire for a grinder to give me a consistent grind and hopefully use less coffee for the same strength of coffee. The net result is that I like the consistency of the coffee (I’m projecting here into the future) vs. the unevenness of the Krups grind due to my under- or over-grinding or just the inconsistency of the Krups grinder itself. (Note on the little Krups because my comment sounds negative: It’s over 20 years old so maybe it needs a new blade for a better grind. It’s been a trooper!) -The number of cups you can set this new machine for starts at 4 so it is assuming I’m using a coffee maker, but it seems fine for one mug of coffee. I would prefer it start at 2 which I think is more accurate for a single mug. When I dumped the hopper upside down to see how much coffee was not ground after using the 4 cup setting, there was about a full scoop left. I had put 5 scoops in because I wasn’t sure how much to put in. (The scoop comes with the grinder.)One of my concerns that I’m still unsure about: My boyfriend drinks caffeinated coffee and I drink decaf with about 10 regular caff beans mixed in because I’m very sensitive to caffeine. So we have to grind the beans and make our single-cup coffee separately. Although the instructions tell you to “Fill bean hopper to top”, you do not *have* to fill it to the top obviously. (I’m a tech writer and misleading wording like this makes me cringe.) You can put just the right amount of beans for just one cup and press the START bar. It does a fine job with this little amount. (Also, the instructions say “press the power bar to begin grinding”. The bar says START on it, so it should be called the START bar. But I digress.) I need to figure out exactly how many beans to put in the hopper for one cup so I don’t have to dump the hopper before making my next cup of coffee. One unfortunate side effect I just thought of is that my exact 10 beans of caff beans will never be exact again unless I can figure out exactly how many beans consistently are ground at the 4 cup setting without any left over beans. If I dump the hopper and beans come out, are they caff or decaf beans and what should I do with them? I’ll have to slip them into the boyfriend’s coffee.In summary, it’s not the best design for someone making a single mug of coffee using the pour-over method, but it’s good enough. I like the grind consistency and the reduced amount of beans needed. It is also not ideal when two members of the same household use different beans. If I can find a grinder that meets my household’s needs, I will gladly replace this one. In the meantime, I’ll make due.UPDATE: The “automatic” function broke after 18mths of daily use. There’s nothing broken that I can see…it just won’t continue grinding based on the setting for numbers of cups. The product is still usable, but I have to “pulse” grind like you do with a food processor and count by seconds to get the right amount of grinding. This makes it useless to me because the whole point was to made it dummy proof so my bf could make me coffee exactly the way I want. For all the reasons above, I think I’ll go back to a Krups hand held grinder if I have to count seconds anyway.

I just got this and used it for the first time, so this is only my first impression. I’ll try to come back and update this review after some more time and usage. I’ll list a few weirdnesses/problems, from my first use:1. I selected 7 on the number-of-cups dial, as a cautious first try, to grind a batch of beans for making cold brew in an 8-cup French press. I poured in way more than enough beans in the intake hopper, or so I thought (I put in 2 very heaping tablespoons of beans per “cup”), and pressed the On button, assuming it would grind 7 cups’ worth of beans and stop with some still left in the hopper. I was surprised that it went through all the beans I’d put in the hopper, and was still going, when I had to shut it off because the hopper was empty.This was way way more than what I usually use, to make a fairly strong batch of cold brew in my 8-cup French press (typically I use maybe 2 level-not-heaping tablespoons of beans per “cup). The grounds filled the French press more than halfway, just with the grounds, before adding any water! and this was with the # cups set to 7 not even 8, and with having shut it off after it ran out of beans to grind. So something seems way off, in its idea of how much per “cup” on its the number-of-cups dial? I scooped out half of the grounds from the French press, to approximate how much I usually use to make a reasonable batch of “8 cups” of cold brew. So I guess I’ll have to set the number of cups way down to something like half (maybe 4?), on the grinder, of the number of cups given on the side of the French press, next time (i.e. 8)?[edited: used it again and set the number of cups to 6. This produced only a little more than I wanted, for the cold brew in the 8-cup French press (I scooped out the extra, enough to make a decently strong batch of hot brew in a separate 2-cup French press I have). Next time I’ll try setting it to 4 or 5 cups, and see if that matches my expectations, for how much I put in the 8-cup French press for a reasonably strong batch of cold crew.]2. I set the coarseness to something near the maximum, as shown in the instructions, past #10 and into the “swoosh” icon, since I’m making cold brew. When I ran the grinder, most of the output was satisfactorily coarse, but there was some fine powder, stuck to the side of the output container. Not too much fine powder, just a few clumps, but still disappointing; when I use a manual burr grinder on a coarse setting, I don’t get any fine powder like this.[edited: see uploaded photo of the output bin, showing some unwanted/unexpected very fine powder caked together near the top, above the expected/wanted coarse grind below]3. The instructions are a little confusing. At first I wasn’t sure about the “removable upper burr”, if it was needed or not, or if was optional, since it could be removed like the brush that’s stuck in it? the instructions don’t say you need the upper burr to be in place. Only at the end, in the “Maintenance” section, does it mention this upper burr, where it says to remove it for cleaning (so I guessed that meant you DO need it in place for grinding, if it expects you to remove it for cleaning).4. Cleanup is a little difficult, with the fine powder stuck to everything, even though I’d used the coarsest setting so I didn’t expect any such fine powder at all.My previous grinding experience, for reference: as I mentioned, nowadays I’m making cold brew, in a French press. Years ago (when I was using an Aeropress which wants finer grinds) I inherited an electric blade grinder, which can only produce very fine grind since it keeps slicing the same beans/grinds over and over.So once I began using the French press, and especially once I started making cold brew in it, I bought a manual ceramic burr grinder, a Kyocera (same as a Hario?) and used that for a while, OK but output is uneven, and there’s no lid, so it’s prone to spilling beans while I’m grinding, especially since sometimes it gets stuck on a bean in its craw and the handle jerks out of my hand, thereby rocking the whole thing so that some beans spill out. Then I got a Hario ceramic burr grinder, the high end super upgraded model with improved ceramic burr mechanism for more even output (?) and a lid to prevent beans from spilling out. Used that for a couple of years, until the ceramic burr got stuck on some beans and broke, the whole ceramic burr block split in half! Went back to the Kyocera for a while, again with no lid and uneven output. Then decided to try this electric Krupps burr grinder as a treat.

First impression was it was an easy to use blender although I’ve never owned a spice blender before so no comparison to other brands or models. I blended some whole cloves. The operation was pretty straightforward and turned the cloves into powder and small bits in just a few spurts. However the granules were not very consistent. The finer powder flew to the top and the coarser bits stayed at the bottom of the chamber. I tried shaking the blender but it didn’t help smooth out. Once I removed all the spice out and mix it up it was ok. While I in general like the design and the ease of use, I am worried about the plastic parts getting mixed in my spice. Both the upper part of the chamber and the top cover were clear plastic when new, but just after one use, they turned almost glossed texture with visible scratch marks from the spice spinning in it. It makes me wonder how much of the tiny plastic bits got mixed into the finished spice powder.

I bought this to allow me to grind finer for espresso than I could with my existing grinderI was able to do so. This machine has no issues making coffee flour. I don’t find the static cling to be an issue. If it was I’d hit it with a anti static spray.The only issues I’ve had are due to the bean feed bin not being steep enough to feed some oily beans. I bang it lightly a few times while grinding to insure a proper flow in to the works.Otherwise this thing is perfect. I took a star off due to the feed issue. That’s probably too harsh.I stopped using my capresso grinder.You could spend 3x to get the same results. Don’t be stupid.

Given the price paid for this grinder, it is remarkable efficient! I have only used it for grinding coffee beans, though it is extremely quiet. Our old grinder was not automatic-we had to press the lid down to activate it. With this unit, I can continue to do other things while it grinds away!Definitely a recommend from this satisfied customer!