Hi,
I’ve been using a blade grinder for years and just recently realized how badly it affected the brew (took me a while, please don’t hate haha).
So I started looking for a better alternative, with burrs, and from what I gathered, a good manual grinder will beat any fancy electric one, so I guess I’ll be grinding my beans myself now.
I still need your help picking the right grinder for me, so here is my situation :
- I mostly use a moka pot and a dripper, and more rarely a French press, for lack of a proper espresso set up
- I’m also an espresso guy but I will probably end up investing in a decent espresso set up sonif the grinder could manage all of these that’d be neat! (I haven’t started benchmarking for a proper setup yet because enjoying a good ristretto from time to time is fine by me for bow, but any advice on a a machine that is not too pricey is welcome too!)
- most of the time I grind approx 20g of beans
- I buy my beans from a local roaster, in small quantities (by 250g), dunno if this is any relevant
So far here is a list of grinders I’ve seen recommended on this sub :
- 1ZPresso JX pro
- Commandante c40 (but there are different burrs and I don’t know which one I’d pick)
- Capresso Infinity
- Hario mini mill
Haven’t bern really checking the the last two though. There seem to be quite we difference in prices range, so I need your help picking the right model (and size?). I don’t want to spend too much, but I’m okay for a little pricey one if it makes a great deal of difference and it’ll last! Also I’m open to look for second hand grinders unless you thinks it’s a bad idea ?
Cheers and thank you for your help,
Edit : kingrinder’s P & K series are also seemingly a solid choice, if any of you guys have an opinion, I’m interested!


… I’m really curious why someone downvoted me. It doesn’t bother me, it just seems weird.
I saw a couple comments of ppl specifically saying they don’t like the Hario - probably one of those ppl?
Lol I use an electric blade grinder, which, from the coloring of its plastic case I can only assume comes from the 70s 😂 But I lost the ability to taste and smell things in a deep or nuanced way after long covid in early 2020 tho, so I get to drink crap coffee and eat crap food without a gag reflex now. I’m just reading all these comments with a like “Ah, yes, enjoy your taste buds while you have them” kind of nostalgia
Oh wow. I feel for you. Yes, life is simpler, but you also miss the pleasures.
Yeah, it was pretty rough at first since the enjoyment of food and drink was one of my main pleasures in life. Six years on I think I’ve just replaced it with meditation 😂 Thank you tho, it does feel like a disability akin to the hearing loss I experienced in early elementary school, so hopefully that will be recognized as a legit thing as more long covid studies come out. It’s wild to me tho that a professional food critic likely would view my pre-covid taste/smell as horrible 😂