Hamilton Beach Professional Hamilton Beach Professional Stainless Steel Conical Burr Digital Coffee Grinder, 39 Adjustable Grind Settings, Black (80405)

This makes our coffee so much better! We used to use our ninja but now we have this. It grinds our coffee way better especially for our espresso machine.

Great burr grinder for the price. Nice weight feature for expresso. The cup should have a spout to make emptying the ground coffee less messy.

Works great, easy to use and is very quiet. Great value and would recommend to anyone thinking about grinding your own coffee beans

There are some nice things about this grinder. But the static mess overwhelms them. Coffee grounds everywhere. They shoot out around the cup as it's grinding. They continue to fall even after you think you've got them all after grinding. The clean up effort just isn't worth it to me.It used to be so much easier to buy a decent grinder. Now they look prettier and have nice features but they cost a lot more and all seem to be missing that one feature that would make it worth it.I just returned a different grinder that was anti-static and quiet. It worked perfectly. However, the duty cycle was lousy. We grind ahead, not per each brew. After a couple grinds it would just shut off for 30 min. I did more research and a lot of them at this level do that.Our current grinder we've have for many years. However, it gets clogged up ALL THE TIME. But it doesn't shoot grounds all over the place and it will grind as long as I want it to...until it clogs upThis one is so messy. A tighter fit between chute and cup along with anti-static would make this one a keeper.Seems like the designers of these things could learn from each other and produce a decent grinder in the $100 range. I guess I'll keep buying and returning these until I find one.

This grinder sprays grounds all over the counter. We have tried everything to stop this from happening. For example, we added spacers under the cup to reduce the gap, which did not help. We even set the size of the grind up as coarse as possible and it still sprays all over the counter.Also, the black cover which is supposed to direct the grounds from the grinder to the cup below is breaking apart. We purchased this grinder less than 10 months ago.We had a Cuisinart DBM-8 Supreme Grind Automatic Burr Mill for over 17 years and no issues. We may just go back to the Cuisinart.

The media could not be loaded. I grind my own beans using a small Cuisinart coffee grinder www.amzn.com/B00004S9CY and while it works great, I did want to try this fancy professional model from Hamilton Beach.I like it.The hopper holds about half a pound of coffee beans, and the receptacle holds quite a bit less than this. Most people aren't going to grind a large amount of coffee at once, as the whole point of having a grinder is the ability to grind right before you brew.It took me several tries to find a grind I like for my dark roast pour-overs: #10 on the dial. If you are a fan of pre-ground Latin American coffees like Bustelo, Pilão, Caboclo, 3 Corações, etc., this is a good grind for you. 5 grams of this in 8-10 oz water makes a nice strong cup of coffee.I may try even finer grinds, but this one is pretty good. Their manual says 14-26 is a medium grind for drip coffee makers, but I first tried 20 and then 15, and I found both of these too coarse for pour-over coffee. The coffee they made seemed weak.There's really nothing to using this machine. It's pretty self explanatory, and, while it's easy to assemble and disassemble, I'm not going to do that too often. The On/Off button turns it on, pressing this a second time starts the grinding, and pressing it a third time stops the grinding if need be. The machine turns off by itself after a few minutes. It would be more accurate to call this the On/Start/Stop button, as pressing it does not turn the machine off. If you press it again after the machine has finished grinding your beans, it will grind another, equal quantity. Oops!You can set the quantity to grind by pressing the Menu button and then choosing weight or volume. I weighed the amount of coffee I normally use to make a cup and that turned out to be 5 grams. Set the grind by turning the dial.The machine does make noise, but it's over in a flash.This is definitely a step up from the little electric grinders most of us use, and thankfully it is very compact. It's the size of a small single-serve Keurig machine, and light enough you can put it away in a cabinet if need be.