Coffee grinder recommendation

Mark Shaw said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

I'm very pleased with this, used every day for more than four years
and works good as new: http://www.wholelattelove.com/Baratza/maestrop.cfm

Sheldon

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Mark Shaw said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

Thanks.

Hmmm. Seems to me I recently heard Lynn Rosetto Kasper (APM's "The
Splendid Table"😉 saying she's had best luck with the $20-30 Krups or
Braun or Whatever blade thingy. Not what you want to hear, though.
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Mark Shaw said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

Thanks.

Check out Sweet Marias. There is a lot of great information here>

http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.electricmills.shtml

jay

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mark Shaw said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Hmmm. Seems to me I recently heard Lynn Rosetto Kasper (APM's "The
Splendid Table"😉 saying she's had best luck with the $20-30 Krups or
Braun or Whatever blade thingy. Not what you want to hear, though.

Those are no good for espresso. They do not produce
an even particle size, like a burr grinder does. They
are fine for pour-over coffee brewing, but not espresso.
The fine particles clog the espresso puck.

Mark Thorson said:

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
 Mark Shaw <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Quoted message said:

Hmmm.  Seems to me I recently heard Lynn Rosetto Kasper (APM's "The
Splendid Table"😉 saying she's had best luck with the $20-30 Krups or
Braun or Whatever blade thingy.   Not what you want to hear, though.

Those are no good for espresso.  They do not produce
an even particle size, like a burr grinder does.  They
are fine for pour-over coffee brewing, but not espresso.
The fine particles clog the espresso puck.

Those whirly blade thingies aren't any good for any kind of coffee
brewing process, first off they don't grind, they only chop. They
operate at too high a speed so they tend to over heat the beans. And
none I've ever seen have the capacity for grinding enough beans to
brew even half a pot... you'd need to cycle at least three loads to
have enough for a 10-12 cup pot. And for espresso grind they're
absolutely useless.

Sheldon

On Tue, 15 May 2007 01:01:44 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
<[email hidden]> rummaged among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

You might want to try out a Capresso. All Capresso does is coffee
related stuff.

http://www.capresso.com/prod_grinders.html

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On May 15, 12:04 am, Terry Pulliam Burd <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

You might want to try out a Capresso. All Capresso does is coffee
related stuff.

http://www.capresso.com/prod_grinders.html

Great recommendation. I've had their Model 551 Burr Grinder ($39.99)
for five or six years. It works great and has never given me a
problem.

Leo

Mark Shaw said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

Thanks.

I've got a Krups burr grinder. I purchased it at Williams Sonoma. It
was about $60. It's been working great for espresso for about a year now.

--
Caryn
Caryn Nadelberg - Mommy to Sam and Queen of the May
www.carynen.blogspot.com

Leo Scanlon said:

On May 15, 12:04 am, Terry Pulliam Burd <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

You might want to try out a Capresso. All Capresso does is coffee
related stuff.

http://www.capresso.com/prod_grinders.html

Great recommendation. I've had their Model 551 Burr Grinder ($39.99)
for five or six years. It works great and has never given me a
problem.

Leo

I also have this grinder. On the smallest grind setting the grind is way
too large for espresso...and actually too large for most any coffee brewing
method. I definitely would not recommend it!

jay

jay said:

Leo Scanlon said:

On May 15, 12:04 am, Terry Pulliam Burd <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

You might want to try out a Capresso. All Capresso does is coffee
related stuff.

http://www.capresso.com/prod_grinders.html

Great recommendation. I've had their Model 551 Burr Grinder ($39.99)
for five or six years. It works great and has never given me a
problem.

Leo

I also have this grinder. On the smallest grind setting the grind is way
too large for espresso...and actually too large for most any coffee brewing
method. I definitely would not recommend it!

It may well work for a press.

Mind the type of burr used in the grinder. Flat burrs tend to grind
everything the same: to dust. No matter how I tried to finesse my
Cuisinart flat burr grinder, there was no result but fine even on the
coarsest grind setting.

Caryn Nadelberg said:

Mark Shaw wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Quoted message said:

I've got a Krups burr grinder. I purchased it at Williams Sonoma. It
was about $60. It's been working great for espresso for about a year now.

I got a Krups GVX2-12 burr grinder for about that price, and
it works fine for a moka-pot type espresso machine. The grind
seems (to me) reasonably uniform, the fineness selector knob
works, and it's reasonably easy to clean. However only the
top burr detaches -- the lower burr is fixed and cannot be
replaced, nor can it really be cleaned other than by brushing.

So I figure it's good for the few days a month or so that I
make espresso, and probably it could be used with a higher-quality
espresso machine, but I'm skeptical it could be used daily
for years and years and still hold up or be repairable.

Steve

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Quoted message said:

On Tue, 15 May 2007 01:01:44 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
<[email hidden]> rummaged among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

You might want to try out a Capresso. All Capresso does is coffee
related stuff.

http://www.capresso.com/prod_grinders.html

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

The Capresso infinity grinder I bought awhile back self
destructed about 10 minutes after the warranty expired.
Even though it's a hunk of junk, it does give you the fine
grind you need for expresso. To obtain that you need a so
called conical grinder, as the Capresso Infinity is.
This gives you the best uniformly fine grind you need
compared to the cheaper burr grinders.

IF anyone has a thought about a conical burr grinder that
holds up I would sure like to hear. I don't want to spend more
than $150. As a certified pre geezer tightwas even that would
be difficult.

Kent

Thanks for all the recommendations. After some more research
on the web and elsewhere on USENET, I decided to go with the
Gaggia MDF.

I'll post my impressions after I get a chance to try it, if
anyone's interested.

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Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mark Shaw said:

Considering a burr-type coffee grinder, mainly for espresso.

Wish to spend something on the order of $200 +/- $50.

Recommendations?

Thanks.

Hmmm. Seems to me I recently heard Lynn Rosetto Kasper (APM's "The
Splendid Table"😉 saying she's had best luck with the $20-30 Krups or
Braun or Whatever blade thingy. Not what you want to hear, though.

Well, that's just nuts. No offense to you, Barb. You cannot cannot
cannot make decent espresso with a whirly "grinder," because of
the irregular chunks. Perhaps she was talking about brewed coffee?

To the original poster: check on alt.coffee--preferable just check
the archive through Google. You will find more opinions than you
can really use....

Mike Beede