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Looking for advice buying a coffee grinder (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mainly want to get a coffee grinder because beans have a longer shelf life and are cheaper. If I also get better coffee, that's a bonus! (Basically, I'm not looking for a premium option)

What is something I should pay attention to when buying a grinder. I see people mention "flat burr" grinders all the time. Is that something important?

A few years ago I bought a cheap terrible manual coffee grinder off Amazon. It took 5-10mins to grind my coffee. The grounds where too course and my hands hurt. Is the experience better with higher quality manual grinders? At the moment, I'm not a huge fan of manual grinders because of this experience and am leaning towards buying an electrical one.

What makes a coffee grinder better than others? What is the difference between premium and budget options?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I am NOT a coffee specialist / snob, but with working from home we wanted to upgrade the old dripper and got that from Melitta, as well as the molino grinder. Both great deals at like under 50% price of new mind you.

We're happy, the grinder works just fine for me, I don't bother changing any settings since the first setup and I'm happy with any stuff I put through there, though I probably couldn't tell you the difference.

I did see the difference going from pre-ground to freshly grinding in the morning, especially when we were ordering special beans from a local roaster we'd get them from the previous day roast and yeah I could tell the difference a bit. But if you're just looking for something to grind you coffee and don't care about the bells and whistles then a cheap burr one from Melitta has served us well!