Hario, Transparent Black Mini Mill Plus | Compact & Adjustable Hand Coffee Grinder with Ceramic Burrs, Plastic,24g

Received this 2/3 days ago and so fa have used it 3 times, all on the fine setting to prepare my regular espresso (which is why I bought this item). I also use an electric coffee grinder, aminly for use in a drip filter or large and small cafetieres, but it is not so good for espresso, so have until now bought ready-ground espresso coffee, so once my current stock is reduced I will probably mainly use the manual grinder instead. It was easy to set up and pretty easy to use - the minor exercise when turning the handle is probably good for me anyway. The espresso grind is very consistent and produces excellent espresso grind coffee which works well in my small moka espesso pot, I also have a larger espresso moka pot for occasional use when guests call and will probably continue to use ready-ground for that, but for individual use the manual grinder is excellent. It seems pretty sturdily built so am very hopeful it will last quite a long time.

During furlough I went down a rabbit hole of 'third wave' coffee watching a lot of James Hoffmann and Chris Baca. It seems I only ever previously experienced coffee 'flavoured' drinks, and coffee can actually taste a lot different to this - this intrigued me and I wanted to see what these guys were talking about. So now you know what angle I'm approaching this from, a newbie who has no idea but wants to understand more. If I was going to jump down this rabbit hole it seemed right to start with the biggest piece of advice that seemed to be 'grind as fresh as possible'. Being furloughed, I didn't want to spend serious sums of money just to sate my own curiosity so this was a good sweet spot for an entry burr grinder that SHOULD be reasonable quality. It can comfortably take 30g of beans. The plastic construction is light, but rigid, and easy to clean. I had a lot of concerns about the shaft-wobble for the conical burr though - I'm tempted to 3d print a stiffening locator for the bottom. I found that on anything bigger than 'fine side of medium-fine' (about 4-5 clicks back from tightest position), the wobble gave REALLY inconsistent grind size. I've settled on using 4 clicks back for pour over at the moment. The clicks on the tightening nut could really be improved if they were made finer, to give greater control over the exact position. A stiffener to lock the bottom of the shaft below the burrs would be a massive improvement too. Even with these nitpicks in mind, it did the job and performs adequately for a compact, low-med price, coffee grinder which, good enough that I know I can't blame it for my own inconsistent brewing - but that's where enjoying constant improvement comes in!

I bought this grinder because I was seriously temped to buy a REALLY GREAT grinder. I had my sights set on the Aergrind made by Knock - but at £125 I couldn't justify it considering I wasn't even sure if I would use it as much as my ideal inner budding coffee nerd thought I might. As a compromise I picked this grinder up because it had decent ratings by coffee nerds and was in a much more affordable price range at nearly £100 cheaper. This was a good move it turns out, because while I like to think I'm the sort of person who will freshly grind my coffee every morning for my cuppa - it turns out.. I'd rather have it NOW than Fantastic. The fantastic can wait till i'm awake enough to full appreciate it. So.. I find I'm using it a few times a week when I want a really nice cup of coffee to enjoy, and for £32 - I can justify that. So.. the Hario has become my 'entry-level' coffee grinder, until such a time that I fall off the deep end and cough up £125 for a really amazing one. And as an entry level grinder - it's great.. I love it. it's easy, not messy, haven't smashed my fingers yet.. looks good in the cupboard. criticism - The sticky bar code - others have mentioned it. it took me ages to get it off - I don't know what kind of double strong super-glue epoxy gorilla adhesive they're using but it looks like crap, and it took me hours of soaking, scraping and using isopropyl alcohol to finally get it off without damaging the plastic.

If you want to try what is classed as 'fresher' and 'smoother' ground/filter coffee, by grinding your own beans, but don't want to go all in on the expensive side then this is pretty much the perfect 'starter' kit for you to begin your life long party conversation piece about how much better freshly ground beans are compared to buying pre-packed pre-ground beans 😉 It does what it says on the tin, it grinds beans using easily maintained and cleaned ceramic burrs, which are very easily adjusted between fine and not so fine (coarse), it just takes a couple of goes to work out what adjustment setting is right for you. A full container of beans gives you approx 20-22g of ground beans (level 2 marker) and depending on your fitness level takes approx 5 mins of turning the handle (clockwise) which is enough for 2 cups of coffee. This is the experimentation but, as depending what information you read some places say 12g of ground coffee should be used for every 150ml of water, yet most measuring spoons are 7g including the one supplied with the Sage Precision Pro Brewer and they recommend 1 level spoon per 150ml? so it may take a few attempts to get your preferred taste sorted. Other than that after a number of uses I find that this is easy and straightforward to use, gives me a great pre coffee workout and I can honestly taste the difference between 'fresh' and 'pre' ground coffee beans, come Christmas I'll be looking to upgrade to one that's a bit bigger ( or even electric) as there's 2 of us and we usually drink 2 cups each, which means a 10 minute post coffee workout = a bit much at 6am 😄 Highly recommended as a let's see what all the fuss is about coffee beans grinder 👍

Very portable, very affordable, makes great coffee. Fantastic piece of product for those who wants to make the first step into specialty coffee.

The product arrived in good condition and works well. The motion to grind is smooth and quite effortless. The grinds are consistent and fine enough for me to use with my Aeropress! Highly recommend spending the money to get a good and reliable manual grinder that can help you achieve good quality coffee.

I had been searching through all the grinders that look like glorified pepper mills and not finding one that gave me that YES gut reaction I happened on the link to the original of this model in a blog on cold brew coffee and followed the link to arrive at this upgraded model. I loved the look and the reviews, got the YES I was looking for, and ordered 2, one for home and one for work. The grinder has a nice sturdy feel to it. The base is fairly thick clear glass with no bubbles or defects. and the rubber base thing keeps the unit firmly in place on the counter while grinding. The grinder is efficient and didn't require an egregious amount of work to grind the 8 tablespoons of beans. The grinder handle is sufficiently long enough to provide more than adequate torque to provide a nice smooth grinding action. Adjustment of the grind size requires the base to be removed and the bottom nut advanced or retarded to close or open the gap between the grinding faces, and there is no grind size guide other than your best guess based on that gap. As I'm only grinding coarse for cold brew coffee that's not an issue for me, however, if you perform multiple grind sizes this adjustment process might get old. There is also nothing in the grind adjustment to prevent locking the faces against each other or getting then to close and damaging them when going for a really fine grind. Finally, for my purpose this grinder is ideal. I got rid of the noisy electric burr grinder that disturbed my morning peace and produced as much fine grind as it did coarse.

I bought this for use during the inevitable fall hurricane / winter storm power outages, not as a daily grinder. Perfect for coarse grind for a coffee press. Doing a fine grind by hand does take a looong time. This is a V high-quality hand-crank grinder. Additionally, a 7mm socket can be used instead of the crank handle, which means I can use a battery operated drill to grind coffee! Low speed only with the drill of course...

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