Best Coffee Grinders

The best coffee grinders, there are three basic types of electic coffee grinders available for home coffee grinding. The Blade Coffee Grinder, the Burr Coffee Grinder and the Conical Burr Coffee Grinder. Your choice for the best coffee grinder can be decided up using the information below and deciding what quality of beans you would like to produce or even how much you are willing to spend. There are many brands to choose from such as Krups, Cuisinart, Solis Maestro, Virutso and Zassenhaus.

There are two types of non-electric coffee grinders. The Hand Mill has changed very little over hundreds of years, they are of a box shape with an adjustable grind feature. While they are still available on the market they only grind a little coffee at a time. They are quite inexspencive but are very time comsuming and unable to grind a fine grind used for espresso. When making Turkish coffee you will want a Turkish coffee grinder. The Turkish grinder is required to achieve such a extremely fine grind used in Turkish coffee, as the domestic grinders are unable to achieve this.

Blade Coffee Grinders

Blade coffee grinders are the least expensive on the market, however they are also the least effective in producing "ideal" coffee grounds for brewing. The blade grinder (with a flat wheel) chops the beans resulting in non-uniform particles. And in the process heats the beans, which can negatively effect the flavor of the coffee. You should never use a blade grinder for making espresso or in espresso machines. The "coffee dust" can clog up the sieves in the espresso machines.

The blade coffee grinder is a suitable coffee grinder if you are only grinding a small amount of coffee at a time for a drip machine and do not want to pay more for a burr grinder or conical burr grinder.

Burr Coffee Grinders

Burr coffee grinders use two revolving abrasive wheels to crush the coffee beans. This process releases the beans natural oils making them much more easily extracted during the brewing process resulting in a smoother richer cup of coffee. They do heat the beans while grinding, however the heat produced is minimal compared to the blade grinder.

These grinders make the particles of coffee much more uniform and can be used to brew most of coffee in most of machines, turkish excluded. Both electric and non-electric models are available on the market and are a bit more expensive than blade coffee grinders, but in my opinion are well worth the cost.

Conical Burr Coffee Grinders

Conical burr grinders are the "cream of the crop" when it comes to home coffee grinding machines. They have two rotating discs like the burr grinder but are conical shaped, hence the name. They grind the coffee very effectively with the least amount of heat produced ensuring the aroma stays until brewing time.

They are quieter than the other two grinders, but for an increased cost. Because of the conical shape they produce the most uniform particle for brewing, resulting in a fuller flavor, abundant aroma and reduce the amount of clogs in your machines. They are usually the most expensive machines but are fully worth the cost if you grind exclusively at home.

Hand Mill Coffee Grinders

Turkish Coffee Grinders