Encore 230V Coffee Grinder - Electric Coffee Bean Burr Grinder with 40 Grind Settings, Black

Great piece of kit. Does the job well and looks good.

This grinder is perfect unless you want to make espresso coffee, which it cannot do adequately. That is not a criticism of the grinder, just a fact that at it's price point grinders won't do every type of grind. However, this grinder is superb for cafetiere (French Press), coffee drip machines and pour over filter coffee. It is very well designed and unlike some grinders, even more expensive ones, does not spray coffee all over the place as it has a good fitting receptacle to catch the grounds. It is simple and accurate to use. The only slight drawback is that it's a bit noisy. I understand that Baratza provide good technical support and this machine is easy to change burrs, etc, because of it's design. I previously had a Mignon Specialita grinder that gave up the ghost after a year and two months of one grind per day and much prefer the Baratza.

Triple cardboard boxed, excluding the Amazon box, so well protected, but more challenging to unpack because of this. This grinder has a conical Stainless Steel burr, which I suspect maybe superior to a flat grinder; the instructions say to not wash this because it may rust! After washing all the removable all-plastic parts, I learnt that the bean hopper has to be inserted with the silver band on the righthand side, then turned anti-clockwise to set a lower (finer) grind number. By trial and error I figured out that 8 is near to common pre-ground coffee fineness, but I probably need to try an even lower number to better match it. The rule seems to be, the shorter the brew time, the finer the coffee can-be/needs-to-be ground, but not so small that it clogs or goes through filter holes. Longer brewing must have a coarser grind to limit brew acidity. The grinder can be powered-on by keeping the front button pressed, or by the lefthand rotary switch clockwise. Finally, no more need to use my black ceramic conical-burr hand-grinder with a cordless drill. My only criticism so far, was that the case need better dampening to reduce noise, because I could significantly reduce the emitted noise by holding my palms on the lefthand and righthand sides of the case while it was grinding.

A bit of looking at reviews and a book and it seemed that this would be a good coffee grinder - and so it has turned out - it's in its first youth but produces nice ground coffee with less noise than the old blade version I was using.

Quality ground, good value entry level proper burr grinder.

Easy and accurate to use

I don't do espresso so am not sure of the full capability, but it is a capable relativey quiet grinder which seems to grind the same every time and the same setting. And my coffee tastes nicer!

The standard entry level grinder - good grind quality without too many fines and easy to adjust the grind size, you need to pay double or triple the price to get to the next level. The white version is unobtrusive in a kitchen. It’s robust and heavier than you’d think for its size. It’s a cone burr grinder so slower than a flat plate grinder but perfect for grinding coffee as you need it - flat plate grinders at this price point have utterly terrible grind quality.