I have been using one of these since December. (My first grinder, too,
though I have used a few others.) Overall it does the job just fine for my
paper filters. That said I would hesitate to use it with a press due to
not-so-impressive evenness of grind. (Lots of "fines" mixed in...I think
it's due to to the cheap burr design.) The only other thing I don't like
about it is noise level, as it is far louder than some of the other (I
admit, smaller) consumer burr mills that I have used. The base
feels extremely solid, and the switches are probably "good enough." The
hopper and grind collector won't take much abuse but are, again, "good
enough." The dosing feature is very convenient. The only hitch to that is
that I tend to spend a few seconds pulsing it at the end to get the last few
bits of coffee through the burrs.
I would rate it a 5 out of 10, but worth the $50 I paid. ("On sale" at a
mall store...don't pay any more than that.) I think that the little mill my
girlfriend's parents have is a Black&Decker? The thing is probably 20 years
old and I didn't see anything like it while I was wandering between
retailers looking for a mill. The grind quality on that one isn't
fantastic, either, but it makes much less noise.
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