KONA Electric Burr Grinder | French Press Coffee Bean Grinder Produces Coarse To Medium Grinds, Small Coffee Mill Saves Space On Any Counter Top

I got this grinder to try, as I loved the coffee I got from a supplier here on Amazon. When I used my blade grinder, the coffee was either too inconsistent, or I had almost a coffee powder. This gave me a different taste than the sample packs I had tried.I knew I had to try a but grinder to get more precise, for $20, I say try it. I put the grinder on the finest setting available, medium. It turns out, this is very good to use in my traditional pour over coffee maker with a cone shaped filter.As far as the grinder, it's very small, but I would say the hopper should hold enough to do a full sized brew in a standard 12 cup brewer. I use a single cup Black & Decker, so it's perfect for me.This grinder has 3 little suction cups to hold it in place while it works. It has a small hopper on top to hold your beans, and a small removable one on the bottom to catch the ground coffee. The cord is about 2 feet long, easy enough to reach an available outlet.I have only had this about 3 weeks, but it's a keeper, especially for $20. Now for the bad though, I don't see it with the grinder specifically, but more so with physics I guess. It's the dang static electricity in doing this. The ground coffee clings to the plastic holding tank and doesn't completely empty. You can wipe it, then the coffee jumps around to "grab" other plastic or items close by. It can be frustrating in the morning. I see on reviews of other grinders, they have the same issues with this.Now for the awesome, did I mention it's a $20 but grinder? Well the company owners seem to have forgotten! They roll out the red carpet for you! I was contacted to make sure I got the grinder. I was offered a sample of coffee beans. I was asked if I had and questions or concerns, the fourth contact, yes 4th, they wanted to confirm that I had access to them should I have any issues down the road. Very good Customer Care!That deserves a purchase on its own merits!

I use a French press exclusively but don't view myself as a coffee snob. After much research and realizing that spending the equivalent of a car payment on a good grinder was just not possible (damn student loans!) I saw this and decided what the hell.I did not realize just how tiny the machine is. It can only take about a 1/4 cup of beans at a time. That's fine for a grind before every brew person but I just don't care THAT much and I was having company over who were already gonna be disappointed at my lack of Keurig (don't get me started on that).Anyway, I ground about 2 cups worth of beans and discovered the following:1) Lots of static cling in a tiny cup.2) It's messy AF. Grounds were all over my island from opening and transferring the grounds to a storage vessel. I'm careful that stuff too. But this was not preventable.3) This was the deal breaker. The overall grind seems fine. But it made a lot of super fine dust that caked together into clumps that had to be tapped out of the lid and vessel after every grind cycle. Nobody wants that in their morning Joe and everything I've read about burr grinders lists that as a bad characteristic.4) The machine felt very warm to the touch after grinding about 2 cups worth of beans.The one really great thing about this machine though is the suction cups on the base. They work like a charm.Bottom line is that this is probably a decent grinder for someone that grinds before every brew cycle and or has about as much space as an NYC studio apt. In my case, it's just not for me I'll be returning this for something bigger.

Main positive features: Cheap and reliable. If used with paper filter in a french press coffee maker, there is less than a gram/pot (5T coffee) of residue. Two pots of coffee worth of grounds per grind. Fast.Disappointed: However, cafestol (the thing in coffee that causes blood LDL rise in coffee) is in the residue. See following abstract:"Is cafestol retained on the paper filter in the preparation of filter coffee?"Food Res Int. 2017 Oct;100(Pt 1):798-803. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.08.013. Epub 2017 Aug 5.Rendón MY1, Dos Santos Scholz MB2, Bragagnolo N3.You can see that abstract on Pubmed for free.The bean hopper is tiny and beans spill around. Also, the coffee bin is futzy.Concern: I bought this burr grinder to eliminate fines for French Press brewing. It probably reduces them, there remain about 1 tsp fines/pot of coffee.The grounds tub comes in and out with some difficulty. If you force it it feels like it might break. That hasn't happened yet.Also, the grounds tub tends detaches at the bottom during operation. I have considered holding it in place to see if fewer fines result.

This coffee grinder was apparently broken from the get-go. It took me a while just to figure it out because the instructions were very unclear. The clear ground coffee holder was difficult to get back into the machine after removal (no parts are dishwasher safe, by the way, and the bottom grinder can't be removed for cleaning, your just instructed to "brush" it). The top container threads are not quality so it's difficult to get the top container on correctly. The instructions tell you to "click" the top a certain number of times for different grinds but there is no "clicking." It took me a while to figure out that the faint arrow on the top of the fill container points to the various grind coarseness. I finally got all this ready to go, plugged it in, and turned on the machine (there's only one button) which lit up...and nothing happened. After all the time spent trying to figure out a machine that should be super simple I was frustrated that it wouldn't work right out of the box. I would definitely, DEFINITELY, not recommend that you purchase this. I need to spend time packing it up now to return, and apparently I'm starting my day without coffee.