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This stylish Krups coffee grinder is compact and easy to use. Its oval shape fits into the hand nicely, and its clear acrylic lid allows youto see what is happening inside. This machine is robust enough to cope with spices, nuts and wholegrains as well as coffee beans and the stainless steel blades ensure that there is consistent and even grinding at all times.

Features:

•Oval shape with clear acrylic lid
•Powerful stainless steel blades
•Coarse and fine selector
•Ideal to use for coffee beans, spices, nuts and wholegrains
•Available in a Black finish only
•Dimensions approximately: 16cm high, 10cm wide, 8cm deep
•1 year guarantee
Blade or Burr - capturing Aroma...

If roasting coffee beans is an art, then turning them into perfect ground coffee is a science. If the grind is too coarse the coffee will brew too slowly, and flavours will not fully develop, if it’s too fine the coffee will lack aroma and tend towards bitterness. Too much grinding is as bad as too little for perfect coffee only ’just right’ will do. Different coffee machines work best with different grind sizes so what works well in a cafetiere will produce dreadful coffee in an espresso machine. Coffee can be ground with either a blade (chopped) or a burr (crushed).

Blade grinders chop and re-chop each bean turning them into thousands of unevenly sized coffee fragments. The longer you chop the finer the blend becomes, but no matter how careful you are some of the coffee will be over ground and some will be under ground: so the coffee will never be as good as the beans you started with.

Coffee Beans: All of today's coffee beans come from just two varieties of coffee plant; Robusta and Arabica - the mix giving the quality, flavour and strength (caffeine content) of the coffee. the beans are taken and roasted, developing the flavour and aroma of the coffee - the longer they are roasted, the darker and more aromatic the beans become.

Krups for the true coffee lover Krups began its journey towards perfect coffee back in 1846 as ‘a brand dedicated to precision and technical perfection’. These high ideals were not enough for Robert Krups the founder, who insisted this would not be some future objective but a ‘firm promise’. The company’s first products immediately won widespread admiration for their quality, far sighted design and technical refinement.

In 1961 Krups turned its attention to making the best electric coffee grinder, revolutionising the quality of home ground coffee. Krups now makes arguably the best range of Espresso machines in the world from modest easy to use machines for novices, to fully automatic bean to cup machines for coffee connoisseurs.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Long distance grinder
Comment: I make a lot of coffee: I fill this with beans at least twice a day, every day for the past ten years or so, and this little baby is still going strong. Sure, a burr grinder makes it easier to be precise, but after all this time I'm pretty accurate about the grind time. Some other reviewers have had a different experience, but I can testify that it's at least possible for one of these to last over a decade of constant use.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Grinds sufficient for espresso
Comment: This is a good first grinding mill. Will grind fine enough for espresso and will also further grind coffee that is bought not fine enough. Don't use water to clean unless youw wait a long time for drying. I just grind ten to fifteen seconds ( three times five seconds) for espresso then empty and clean using an unused (for painting that is) half inch paint brush to remove all coffee powder without damaging grinding blades. Value for Money? - DEFINITELY.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: It's a 'Coffee' Mill
Comment: This is a coffee mill. It grinds coffee. It's small and does "exactly what it says on the tin" :-) Okay, the cable is a bit short and I also can smell the mill (lubricant or otherwise) after use - minor negatives. I read the other reviews and you really can't mark it down for things like: "it does not stand up to grinding spices Cumin or similar that contain certain chemicals that corrode metal and plastic" - 1) it's a coffee mill, 2) *nothing* which is made of metal and plastic will stand up to anything that corrodes metal or plastic! ;-) Buy it, it's a good mill.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great but flawed
Comment: I grind a lot of spices as part of my semi-professional job as an Asian Chef. This by far has been the best of this type of grinder, but it suffers from the same fault as most of its competitors; it does not stand up to grinding spices Cumin or similar that contain certain chemicals that corrode metal and plastic. This grinder lasted less time that my previous types e.g. Moulinex, Braun before it seized (because of cumin damage to the bearing). If you want to maitain any of these types of grinder my advice is: Never allow any dampness near the grinder area as the bearing on this machine is more susceptible to rusting, just clean it out with a dry brush and if necessary a cloth dipped in a little oil; and aways wash the plastic top in warm soapy water not the dishwasher. Why can't manufactureres produce a spice grinder that is not susceptible to spice damage and will not rust and seize. There must surely be a very large demand for electric grinders specifically for spices these days.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Simply perfect coffee
Comment: I only have one cup of coffee a day - but it has to be the best. I enjoy the ritual of trying to make the perfect cup. This grinder makes that goal consistently achievable.

It is small, neat, attractive (mine is black), well designed, simple to the point of basic - and effective. I use a stove top espresso maker, and this grinds beautifully fine, which makes the espresso machine really have to work to force through the coffee. The result is strong, smooth coffee - perfect to add milk to, or to have black. Most importantly, I now get better cups of coffee than before I owned it.

A really pleasing product.

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