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Dylan is a contributor with more than a decade of experience working in the specialty coffee industry.
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Dylan Ettinger helped to update this review, testing some newer coffee grinders. He's our resident coffee expert, having tackled numerous coffee-related stories for the site, including reviews of coffee scales and handheld coffee grinders. He's worked for 15 years in the specialty coffee industry. Jesse Raub is the commerce writer for Serious Eats and helped to update this article. He's written a lot of equipment-related content for Serious Eats, including reviews of coffee grinders and cast iron skillets. He's a previous restaurant cook, has worked on organic farms, and is responsible for many of your favorite recipes on this very site. Daniel Gritzer is the senior culinary director of Serious Eats and has worked for the site since 2014. Our favorite coffee grinders have been used and evaluated, consistently, over a span of five years. Most recently, we evaluated the Zwilling Enfingy Coffee Bean Grinder and Fellow Ode Gen 2 Coffee Grinder.
As new coffee grinders have come on the market, we've continued to test them and update this review. For this review, we tested 14 coffee grinders.And even though the Bodum grinder is more expensive, it was outperformed by the OXO Brew grinder in every test. Bodum Bistro Burr Coffee Grinder: This grinder performed so-so in the taste tests and its plastic body felt cheap.Ariete-Delonghi Electric Coffee Grinder: This grinder appeared to be of very poor build quality and exhibited subpar performance during our grinding consistency tests.But it suffered from poor grind consistency, and the glass grounds container does not sit securely in place below the chute it would be very easy to accidentally knock it off while using the machine and break the glass. KitchenAid's KCG0702 Burr Coffee Grinder: This is one of the more handsome grinders we tested its body appears to be solid metal, and both the bean hopper and grounds container are glass, not plastic.It's also deafeningly loud and too expensive for the results it produces. Like the budget Krups, it comes with dinky burrs and grinds inconsistently as a result.
Cuisinart's DBM-8 Supreme Grind Automatic Burr Mill: This was the first burr grinder I ever owned.
As in, it didn’t grind the coffee-at all. We even tried cleaning this model’s burrs multiple times and grinding two types of beans at different roast levels.
Zwilling Enfingy Coffee Bean Grinder: When attempting to grind coffee on the finest grind setting, the Zwilling Enfingy Coffee Bean Grinder wouldn’t work. The updated version of this grinder-the Fellow Ode Gen 2-addresses these issues, and is now one of our top picks. A couple of Serious Eats editors do own this model and note that it seems to produce more static than other burr grinders, spewing a lot of grounds on the countertop. Most grinders we tested had fairly simple removable burrs for easy cleaning, but cleaning the Fellow requires you use a screwdriver to remove the faceplate and access the burrs. There is one major drawback with this grinder, though: it’s difficult to clean. Fellow Ode Gen 1 Burr Grinder: If judged on aesthetics alone, the stylish Fellow Ode Burr Grinder would take first place. At a similar price point, the OXO grinder offers more finesse and control, allowing you to better dial in your grind size depending on your preferred brewing method. However, the range of ground coarseness that it produces is much more narrow than our top picks. Capresso Infinity Conical Burr Grinder: The Capresso Infinity Conical Burr Grinder is a simple machine that would meet the needs of casual coffee drinkers. #KRUPS COFFEE EXPRESSO MAKER UPGRADE#
It’s also a very, very expensive upgrade for our cheapest recommended grinder, so we recommend sticking with one of our top picks and purchasing a separate coffee scale. however, the readings were consistently off by at least two grams during our tests. OXO BREW Conical Burr Coffee Grinder with Integrated Scale: This upgrade to our “best for most people” pick features a built-in scale.Serious Eats / Russell Kilgore The Competition