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The Ultimate Guide to choose the best coffee grinders

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Who doesn’t like a fresh cup of coffee every morning to start their days? And what is better than grinding your beans and drink the coffee fresh? Therefore, it’s a must to invest in a good coffee grinder for coffee lovers. In this article, we will discuss how to choose the most suitable coffee bean grinders depending on your brewing methods, level of use, and style preference.

What is the best coffee grinder
for home use? It’s not easy to find the answer to this question. There are hundreds of styles, designs, and price ranges of coffee bean grinders. Let’s check out how to find the best-rated coffee grinders for your home use.

Blade vs. Burr?

First, we have the blade grinder, the most basic and casual grinder of all. This grinder works just like a smoothie maker, which means you grind the beans after putting them into the container and cover it with the lid, which is attached with a motorized twin blade and press the button. The quality of the ground beans is just not as consistent as the professional grinders. The particle sizes of the ground beans are very inconsistent, ranging from dust to chunks of coffee beans. The coffee dust is too over-grinding, and the big pieces are under grind, the coffee might taste weak and bitter. But that’s what you can expect from such a modest price. So, it is recommended that you should invest just a bit more to get a decent grinder that grinds coffee beans correctly and make better coffee. You can always find the best coffee bean grinder in this blade category if you invest some serious time reading reviews and testing from the experts and coffee lovers.

Compared to blade grinders, burr grinders that have been getting a lot of the best coffee grinder reviews can create more consistent particle sizes after grinding. The Burr mechanism works by setting two circular sets of jagged teeth, which can be made from steel, ceramic, or even titanium into the same spinning axis. One set is rotating while the other is static. Once the beans are inserted into the feeder, the mechanism will start spinning and break down the coffee bean to your desired grinding size. The grinding size is determined by setting the distance between the burrs. The ground beans exit into the grinds bin or even porta holders that come included with some machines.

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Let’s talk more about the burrs because you’ll quickly get the top rated coffee grinders into this type. They come in different sizes, materials. Therefore, according to your preference of use, you can choose your desired machines burrs that you like. Burrs have a conical and flat shape. Which one is better than the other shape is still a debatable topic. However, it is proven that flat burrs can deliver a better-grounded coffee, whilst conical burrs might grind much quicklier. If you like making Espresso, flat burrs are the choice. And if you want to make Press or Pour-over, you should consider conical burrs. As for the Press and Pour-over brewing methods don’t require super fine ground beans. Burr sizes range from 40 mm to 60 mm and from machine to machine. Size can even go up to 80 mm for commercial rated grinders like the Ceado E37S that have 83 mm burrs. As a thumb rule, larger burrs are usually included in a more premium quality grinder and do the grinding more rapidly.

For material, burrs can be made from steel, ceramic, and titanium coated burrs. Each one has its own pros and cons. Steel burrs are hardened; they do an excellent job grinding coffee beans, and more heat resistant. However, they tend to become dull and less sharp over time. Replacement is needed after a few hundred pounds of grinding. Ceramic burrs can stay sharp for a far longer time than steel burrs. But they tend to be brittle and easily cracked when if you accidentally drop some foreign objects like small metal teaspoons into the grinder. Titanium coated burrs promise to last you a lifetime, but they are expensive, hard to find spare parts to replace also come in very unattractive price tags.

Read The Article: 10 Best Must Try Coffee Grinders for Any Coffee Lover

Grind Size Adjustment

The next topic is the grind size adjustment. There are two basic types of grinding adjustment: stepped and stepless. Definite stops for every grinding size are constructed with the stepped models. There is no stop in the stepless mills so that it can deliver the most precise and virtually infinite operation. The tip here, if you are not doing higher-end Espresso as a professional in 5-star coffee shop delivers for his or her vip customers, it is really no need for you to go with the stepless adjustment grinders. It’s quite common to get an outstanding stepped coffee grinder in the market to make an Espresso ground.

Beyond that, we have how the grinder is used, grind size adjustment, programmable time and weight settings, etc. For size adjustment, there are options like turning the bean hopper, sliding controls, or turning collars. You can either start the grinding process by pressing buttons, using porta holder activated switches.

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Motor power

One other consideration when choosing the best home coffee grinder is power. Motor power goes from 100 Watts to over 400 Watts, depending on mills. Grinders with more massive motor power can endure longer duty cycles. Grinders with lower power grind slower might need some time to cool down after a long grind. Moving onto build quality, regarding this issue, you get what you pay for. The more money you pay, the less plastic parts there are on the grinder.

Others

And you can choose grinders based on how they dispense ground beans. There are some options like grinds bins, or the ground beans are distributed right into porta holders. Some machines are equipped with both ground bins and portafilters to serve diverse consumers. Additionally, some people might consider some smart technique, for example, the dosing measure, the LCD display… if they’re living in a smart home or just love the advanced technology.

Summing up

As discussed above, we might figure out how important choosing the burr coffee grinder over the blade counterpart. Additionally, in order to pick the best burr coffee grinder for your next fresh coffee bean, it’s wiser if you’re looking at other features, including the constructed material, the mechanism of grind size adjustment, the motor power, the hopper, and more.
 
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