Premium Mr. Coffee Automatic Burr Mill Grinder - 18 Custom Grind Settings for Espresso, Drip & French Press - Stainless Steel Silver - Perfect for Home Baristas & Coffee Enthusiasts

I loved this thing! However, I got a batch of slightly oily beans and it kept clogging it up. I kept cleaning it, mixed in a bag of beans that weren't oily and it worked better. Out of the blue it just died on me. I cleaned it again really well, made sure it wasn't clogged, brushing everywhere and it still wont work. I am so sad! I wanted to give this thing 5 stars! :( :( :( I have only had it 7 months..This would be a great product IF there was a decent t seal on the lids, uniformity of grind(which on a few dif. settings and approx. 1/3.lb of coffe ive noticed the grounds do have a problem with a out 10% of the grind being larger than setting implied...which imo..is a result of a cheap bur system. For a perfect grind with precision and determined release ive yet to find better than the hand grinder with ceramic conical bur sold here at Amazon. Buut...its a pita and slow, arduous...thus is life :)A fine grinder for the budget barrista.Update: 1/3/2017. After nearly a year of constant use, this grinder is still going full force. I am so glad I skipped buying the Breville. Not so much against the Breville, but rather a testament to the fact that this grinder is all I need. The Breville would have been overkillIf works fantastically with my DeLonghi pressurized portafilter espresso machine, and my Black and Decker single cup maker. My son and I drink coffee regularly so it is fired up several times a day. If it failed tomorrow I would not hesitate to repurchase it. Best grinder I've owned and greatly exceeded my expectations. Back to the regular review, already in progress.Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly.GOOD:- Price. $35.00 is dirt cheap for a burr grinder. This isn't much more than a small blade grinder and it's so much nicer.- Burr Grinding: Yes, it's not a conical burr grinder, but a burr grinder is much better than a blade grinder- Dosing. Choose the number of cups you want and push the button. Each "cup" equates to approximately 1 Tablespoon of Beans except for the Espresso setting (more on that in the "bad"). This is unbelievably convenient. I can grind the exact amount I need for my Espresso or my single cup drip maker and get freshly ground coffee with each cup without having to count seconds or try to convert seconds to cups, etc....The "cups" guide works great (6oz per "cup") and it's easy to adjust up or down according to taste.- Easy selection for choosing grind strength. Simply rotate the beans hopper to the proper setting and viola. This is done due to the top burr being a part of the bean hopper (more than that on the ugly). Thus you simply rotate the bean hopper to the desired setting and it adjusts the gap between the burrs. Detents positively let you know when you are on the desired setting and each setting is clearly labeled.BAD:- About that Espresso, the manual tells you to set it to 3 cups for a 2 oz shot and 5 cups for 4 oz. That right there tells you that they are referring to their little Mr.Coffee steam espresso machine. Which also should tell you that this grinder will not grind fine enough for a pump machine with an unpressurized portafilter. I have a DeLohghi EC155 and the espresso setting works great for that machine, but your mileage may vary. Odd's are if you have a high end Espresso maker, you won't want to cheap out on a 35 dollar grinder. So just keep in mind what you are mating this thing with.- Noisy: It's relatively noisy. It's not super annoying since my kitchen is downstairs, and I'm single. But I can imagine that people might not appreciate the noise from the grinder.- Inconsistent Grind. As is typical for this type of grinder, you will get some powder, and it will accumulate in your grounds chamber. If you use paper filters, this will keep the powder from appearing in your coffee. It is a design flaw of this machine, and while it's to be expected, it can be prevented or lived with.- The Blue LED. It's bright, but as others said, simply move the grounds cup about 1/4 inch out and the light goes out. Easy work around.THE UGLY:- OH THE MESS: The biggest drawback of the machine is the mess. Transferring the contents of the grinds cup to your filter or portafilter can be messy. Grinds tend to stick to the side of the container and then end up on the counter/sink/wherever.- Cleaning: This has to do with the bean hopper, it's screwed into the body of the grinder and it is actually the mount point for the top burr. So if you want to clean the burrs, you have to unscrew the hopper, which means you have to empty the beans. This is a bit of a chore, and on more than one occasions as I was attempting to transfer the beans to a secondary container, the top lid came off and beans all over the counter.These two items alone almost forced me into buying a Breville Smart Grinder, but it's $200+ price tag made me take a step back. After careful consideration, the bean dump and my own laziness makes the mess a bigger issue than it needs to be. I can take steps to secure the beans prior to cleaning the device, and if I'm careful with removing the grounds, I don't have to spread them over the kitchen.The Breville is most likely a much superior grinder, but is it 6 times better, and will I appreciate it 6 times as much, or will I stress over paying over $200.00 for a grinder. At this point my inner miser is telling me to be more careful.For me, this and the DeLonghi are more than enough for now. If it dies in the near future, then I may have to spring for a pricer grinder, but right now it does exactly what I want for a price that's hard to beat.This model grinder is much more efficient at grinding than the previous model. It has a softer grinding sound and does not "struggle" or "sputter" when grinding like the previous model did.The noise is a little loud , very good size and essay to clean .Okay burr grinder but not like the first one. This one seems to grind more coarsely than the first version of this grinder.Love fresh coffee, but the cup selector never worked so I just grind enough for 2 days and put in air tight container and keep in refrigerator.This coffee grinder worked great for 2 years and 9 months of running 10 cups at medium grind at least twice a week.My husband prefers to grind his coffee by hand the old fashioned way, but I drink iced coffee by the pitcher and needed a faster and easier way to have fresh ground beans in a larger capacity. I use paper filters and the pour-over method to brew and there would be some extra fine grounds in the pitcher, but they weren't excessive and didn't bother me.I bought this grinder after reading other reviews that said it was great for the price, and especially compared to other more expensive models, but that it sometimes had a short lifespan. Reviews at the time suggested to keep the chute clean for the longest life of the motor. So I diligently cleaned the chute of fine packed grounds every time I refilled the hopper and it seemed to help keep things flowing. I'd even flip it over and tap it like I was burping a baby to get the chunks out.There's a small indicator light by the cups selection dial that stopped working a few months after I got the grinder, but since it otherwise still worked fine, I wasn't worried. The light was annoying anyway.Now, the grinder doesn't want to grind any selected amount and stops quickly after starting, but not always after running the same amount of time. The motor sounds fine, so I'm guessing it's a problem with the selector dial and the switch. It's the classic grinder death based on other reviews.While I used it, the grinder was great. The "cups" selection dial took some time to figure out since it isn't really a great way to know how much coffee you'll end up grinding. It was nice that I could set it to a certain amount and just push a button to get that amount every time.My biggest complaint about the grinder during its lifespan was that the grounds cup had a bit of static cling to it and it was a little annoying to get the grounds out cleanly. I always had to follow up with a wash cloth on the cup and my kitchen counter. A morning ritual of washing my counters wasn't exactly a terrible imposition in my life.The grind was even and not burnt. The coarseness selector by spinning the hopper all the way down and then back out to the desired grind was easy to use. The hopper was a little small for my likes, but I'm sure someone could argue that it isn't best to have that much coffee exposed to light and air anyway. I just hate having limp half full bags of beans in my cupboard.It was nice that the hopper was clear so I could always see how many beans I had left so I could forget to put coffee on my grocery list anyway.I confess, I would often watch the beans grind down in the hopper with bleary eyes and contemplate the futility of my life. I'm not even mad that the thing doesn't work anymore. I got exactly what I expected. It wasn't expensive, I didn't have to go to a store to guess which grinder would be the least disappointing, it didn't take up a huge footprint on my kitchen counter, and it was consistent. Beans go in, grounds come out.The dead grinder will have an honorable funeral in next week's trash along with the packaging for its replacement, most likely another grinder of the same model.El molino es bueno para el precio que tiene, pero si hay que considerar algunas cosas dependiendo de tu nivel de uso.1-Variación en las cantidades de molido de acuerdo al botón de tazas. ¿A qué me refiero? En ocasiones al presionar el botón para moler para 7 tazas entrega 31gr. pero a veces muele 36 gr con el mismo botón. Se que no parece mucho, pero si usas un método con una receta específica querrás tener más claro esto.2-En moliendas gruesas, siempre vas a encontrar que deja alrededor de 4 a 5 gr. muy finos.3-Es ruidoso (como cualquier molino) nada grave4-Estéticamente es bonito.Muy bonito y practico buena potencia y solo tocas un botón, le hubiera dado 5 estrellas pero tuve que abrir la parte de abajo para poder ajustar mas el eje del motor y así acercar mas las muelas del molido, para poder obtener un molido mas fino para expresó, porque en la graduación que tiene no lo daba, tal vez el que me toco estaba mal graduado o son así, de ahí en fuera muy bueno.Contrario a lo que dicen algunos reviews en internet si es un Burr Mill. Le pongo cuatro estrellas porque a pesar de poner el molido grueso siempre deja algo de cafe pulverizado además el compartimento para granos no es hermético y es algo complicado recuperar los granos que no se molieron. Por lo demás funciona bastante bien. Cumple y es una de las mejores opciones en su rango de precio. Recomendable si quieres un molino que permita diferentes tamaños y cantidades.Compré este molino para tratar de tener un café lo mas fresco posible ya que como se sabe es mejor una molienda a base de muelas que de aspas. El molino está muy bien construido, por su tamaño adorna muy bien la cocina, la tolva es de muy buena capacidad y es muy fácil de usar.Algo que no me agrada pero que no es un gran problema es el tema de la limpieza o extracción del café molido, una vez que se muele sale por el compartimiento frontal y se almacena ahí pero es necesario usar la brocha para retirar todo el café. De ahí en fuera me ha resultado muy útil. Sobre la molienda lo tritura muy bien, opino tomando como referencia que uso una cafetera de goteo, para una de expreso no podría decir si llega al molido indicado.Funciona como está descrito. Si hace mucho ruido como lo dicen otras reviews pero no estará funcionando todo el día, al menos no en una casa. Tiene varios steps de molido, desde muy finito para espresso hasta muy grueso como para prensa francesa. El recipiente es de buen tamaño. Me hubiera gustado un cambio en el diseño, que el recipiente no tuviera un hoyo atrás para poderlo tapar bien y meterlo al refrigerador cuando hay sobrante. Por lo demás, es justo lo que esperaba.