Coffee Bean Grinders:
Just How Do You Select
The Best Coffee Grinder?
You will find several types of coffee bean grinders
to select from, each one has it's own merits, and challenges.
So let's start with the most common type, one that I have
purchased on several occasions, and use... mostly for
convenience.
The most common type of bean grinder is the coffee blade grinder, while many people feel that a conical burr grinder is the only way to go, and yet others prefer to use a manual coffee grinder.
Blade type grinders
As it's name suggests, this blade style uses twin blades that
whir around at amazing speed to chop and grind your coffee
beans into a suitable grind for your coffee maker. 
For your everyday automatic drip coffee makers, a blade grinder is perfectly fine. If your coffee making is a bit more involved, such as brewing espresso, the blade type coffee grinder is not as suitable.
These simple to use grinders take up less counter space than other types of coffee bean grinders and many are compact enough to tuck away in a drawer when you are not using them.
Blade grinders are very easy to clean, usually a simple wipe down is all that is necessary between uses.
Read more detailed information about the blade style coffee bean grinder here
Burr coffee grinder
This type of coffee bean grinders will give you more control over the finished grounds than any other type of grinder.
Glimpse at the best burr coffee grinder here
Using two plates, similar to spiked wheels, the burr coffee grinder
gently feeds the coffee beans through and between the wheels
which rotate to grind the beans into the desired coarseness or
fineness that you have pre set with this type of grinder. 
You will find that there are 2 main types of burr coffee grinders available to you. The main difference between the 2 is that the regular burr grinders have flat, burred metal plates. The conical burr grinder has a conical shaped wheel grinder that most often produces a more consistent grind.
Both styles of burr coffee grinders are calibrated to deliver even grounds of coffee, and most burr machines allow you to set the size of your grind from extra fine to very coarse.
Many people prefer to use a conical burr coffee grinder because of the evenness of the grind it will produce. This is especially important when you are using an espresso machine to make espresso or espresso-derived coffee drinks, like latte or cappuccino.
Uneven grinds can lend to the bitter taste you may experience
from using a blade grinder. One popular example is the Mr
Coffee Grinder. Another worth looking at is the Krups Coffee Grinder
series. You'll find more burr coffee grinder
reviews, and if you have your own experience, we'd
welcome your experience and conical burr coffee
grinder review, too!
Manual coffee grinder
For true consistency, a manual coffee grinder cannot be beat. BUT, as the title suggests, it is manual... which means you need to supply the human power to get the grinding job done. Plan on spending a couple minutes grinding the beans manually with this type of coffee grinder per cup.
What makes a good cup of coffee?
Manually grinding your coffee beans puts you in complete
control of the outcome of your coffee. 
With a simple
adjustment of the grind size knob, you can control the
strength of your coffee and grind just the exact amount needed
for one brewing.
The better models have adjustable grinding burrs, so that you can adjust the grind size of your beans to suit your preference.
If you love being as close to the process of coffee making as possible, a manual grinder is just what you are looking for.
Many people feel that using a manual grinder really makes a huge difference in the quality of their coffee.
Turkish coffee grinder
Most any of the electric burr coffee bean grinders can grind
your coffee fine enough for Turkish coffee, if you run the
grounds through a second time at the finest setting and brew
your coffee immediately. 
However, using a true Turkish coffee grinder will produce the nice, fine-fine coffee grounds that are so important to a decent cup of Turkish coffee.
Investing in a wooden manual coffee grinder will bring you the good tasting Turkish coffee that you remember from the coffee houses.
And it is really a special pleasure to be able to select your special coffee beans, then manually grind them to perfection by hand.
There is a quiet contentment that is achieved when you take that first sip ... and breathe in the aroma of your perfect cup of java.
Is it worth it?
When the taste of your coffee is of utmost importance to you,
using any one of these coffee bean grinders to grind your own
coffee beans at home is the only way to go.
One neat twist in the coffee grinder is the coffee maker with
grinder built-in! So you can grind your coffee and make
it with the same machine. No idea if you can do both at the
same time!
If you're still not sure which coffee bean grinders to look
at, read the coffee
grinder reviews we have on our site, and let our other
readers be your guide.
Can you recommend a burr grinder?
Many of us go through life sipping cup after cup of coffee.
And we never realize that if we just upgraded to a burr grinder (best bang for your buck) instead of either using pre-ground coffee, or grinding our own with a blade grinder ... how sweet tasting our coffee would be!
I distinctly remember the very first time I enjoyed (really enjoyed) a cup of coffee.
This was also the first time I had coffee that was freshly ground using a burr grinder. That cup was rich, warm and totally memorable!
What brand of burr grinder do you use, and what do you like (or not like) about it?
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