Azontion Coffee Grinder Manual CG30, 38mm Tiger Shark 420 SUS CNC Steel Burr, 36-Click Fine Adjustment, Portable Coffee Bean Grinder for Aeropress, Hand Pour, French Press, Espresso

When it comes to grinding coffee beans there are many options available.I already have a coffee-grinder attachment for my blender of the "slicer" type which gives an uneven and uncontrollable grind. I also have an ancient cast iron hand grinder that takes a lot of work to do a poor job.I considered paying good money to get one of the classical popular budget "burr" grinders (e.g. Krups, Salter, Melitta, Cuisinart etc) that all use grinding wheels rather than cogs to do a job that experts declare as only slightly better than a slicer. Getting a really expensive electric conical burr grinder was beyond my budget - plus I'm only making coffee for one person - me - most of the time, so I looked at the hand mills that were available.There are a lot of similar looking hand grinders all around this sort of price with subtly different designs but this one struck me as covering all the points I was looking for. (I got the "aluminium Silver" model (Azontion Coffee Grinder, 7 Axis 420 SUS 38mm High Nitrogen CNC Steel Burr, 3 Axial Bearing Portable Manual Coffee Bean Grinder, 36-Click Fine Adjustment for Hand Pour, French Press, Aeropress) )I considered ceramic vs stainless steel grinding and decided that, given some coffee houses regularly include a quantity of stones in with their beans, most infamously, Lavazza, which can destroy ceramic grinders I wanted steel. Also this is the only one which has a middle section where you can access the grinders themselves to replace them in the future should that be necessary.I toyed with the idea of one with a glass reservoir for the grounds, but in all likelihood the glass would be cheap, shatter easily and not be replaceable. I felt that being able to easily get to the grinders to replace them in the future would more useful that seeing the grounds mounting up.If I had a complaint to make about this it's that both reservoirs are a shade too small.I like to use the genereally well recgnised amount for a mug, 20g of beans, for my morning mug which is fractionally more that I can fill in the top section in one hit.All of these hand grinders are the same though in respect of capacity. I Imagine they were designed by people who only thought about leaving enough space for a cup of espresso.Using Melitta's Moonsooned Malabar beans, I can get around 18-19gm in the top section, which, when ground, will completely fill the bottom section almost to the point of overfilling it. This means I need to stop halfway, empty the grounds reservoir, and carry on. One other minor beef is that the cleaning brush tends to snag so a spare cleaning brush would have been a nice gesture.As others have noted the guide of grind size setting is a bit off - I get the right grind for filter coffee around 8-9 clicks.In terms of effort and time, I have mine set to a filter sized grind.The finer the grind, the stiffer the mechanism will become. e.g. if grinding to espresso fineness then it will be really quite hard work to rotate the handle.I do also have an electric pump espresso machine and do occasionally make espresso coffee and, by setting the grind adjuster appropriately, this grinder is definitely capable of grinding finely enough for espresso - but it will requite considerably more elbow grease.For me, grinding to a size suitable for a filter machine, preparing enough for a nice strong single mug of coffee per time is pretty effortless, even for my achey old bones, and takes no more than around 60 - 90 seconds, tops. It's no great hardship. I wouldn't want to be grinding enough for a family or to fill the carafe but for one or maybe two people, hand grinding using this mill is quite easy.I definitely recommend this grinder (the 3 -section aluminium silver one), it's a superb product which has an absolute premium build quality in every area.I note that the exact one I bought is not currently showing as available, so these are the things I was looking to select this one:I would suggest looking for a grinder that has conical burr grinders that are stainless steel rather than ceramic (or it's at least worth checking into the advantages/disadvantages of both types), and I also think it's worth considering that whilst having a glass chamber to receive the grounds is cool to be able to see the results of your grinding mounting up without having to unscrew the grounds holder, that glass is likely to be low quality and probably irreplaceable if you drop it; also for the 60-90 seconds or so of grinding it takes to run the bean chamber from full to empty, stopping every ten seconds to peer through the glass to check progress of grinding is probably something you won't do.Also the handle... if your knuckles are going to ocassionally hit the handle rod as you're rotating to grind - and they will, you want to be sure it does not have hard, flat, metal corners/edges. I've read reviews of other stylish looking grinders with flat handles seeing multiples of complaints about grazed knuckles.A long, round stem, bent handle design like this, with a rotating hardwood knob is ideal to protect your knuckles.UPDATE: this is still doing an amazing job and I see that it is now back in stock.Since the original review I bought a Delonghi Dedica espresso machine too and because it's easier to have a separate grinder for espresso rather than forever be adjusting the grind settings this grinder is now being used for grinding to espresso size - which it does extremely well.So, in addition to the 3 part aluminium one I bought one of the 2 part black ones - the one with the walnut handle (Azontion Manual Coffee Grinder Fine Adjustment, 420 SUS CNC 38mm Steel Burr, Portable Coffee Bean Grinder for Aeropress, Hand Pour, French Press, Walnut ) which has now taken over duty of grinding for my filter machine.This black one is a fair bit larger and comfortably holds the 20g of beans I use for my large mug of coffee in the morning (with room for more if desired) and it also does a superb job.Worth bearing in mind the size difference if you are grinding for a filter machine.Something else I've noticed is that the grind from some beans can be a bit sticky and you need to either give the grounds a good few taps to get them out, or use the brush. I've heard it could be down to static electricity, but whatever the cause, these sticky grounds just don't stick anything like as much in the black painted one. I've added some photos to show the black one as well.

I bought this as I was keen to try freshly ground coffee from a burr grinder without spending a lot of money. I did wonder whether it would be a horrible mistake - it's clearly a copy of certain significantly more expensive grinders, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised. It looks and feels really smart and well made, goes together neatly and seems to do the job of grinding (to different degrees of fineness, although I'm not trying to get very fine expresso grinds) very well. The only thing which lets it down is the instruction manual which is almost comically bad, so you need to work out for yourself, maybe with the help of coffee tutorials online, how to adjust it and I suspect that this is why some previous users have reported metal shards in their ground coffee - it's not impossible to get the settings wrong and essentially grind the burrs against one another, presumably with disastrous results. I may upgrade at some point if my taste buds demand it, but for now I feel that this has provided an improvement in both taste and experience for a very affordable price.

I love this grinder, it's a decent weight due to the metal construction. It's easy to grip due to the knurls in the body and the rotation is super smooth due to a bearing on the shaft. The lever length is decent so you have enough leverage to grind fairly easily, even with a fine grind size. The grind adjustment is easy and the coffee grounds comes out really nice and even. The only downside is that it is heavily affected by static, but that is solved by spritzing your beans before grinding with water. This helps me to produce some of the nicest coffee I have made, using my Aeropress so I am very happy with it.

Very pleasing to use. Bottom is made of good solid plastic. Excellent grinding action with a variety of sizes to grind.

When I received my grinder I was initially put off by the way the glass thread on the grind receptacle didn't fit the metal thread on the main body very well - it wanted to cross thread and also jammed several times.Pleased to report that the glass thread eventually wore down after several uses and now the threads match and it closes smoothly and completely.The grinder itself seems well made and when set to espresso grind (7-10 clicks back from the initial position) it produces an excellent ground coffee which works very well in my espresso machine.Ignore those bemoaning the markings on the grinder not relating to the fineness of the final grind - they clearly haven't read the simple instructions for setting it up properly - it is VERY important that you follow these instructions to get the correct results.Overall, it's a nice piece of kit that works well and feels solid when in use. The textured body means it won't slip in your hand as you grind your beans, the action seems ergonomic and it doesn't take much effort at all.I went for the aluminium body and glass receptacle option so this review is only applicable to that model.

I have been using it for months (I cannot believe I haven't reviewed it before) and I love it.It is sturdy, it does the work and it is exactly how I bought (8 months ago). I use it every morning to grind coffee for a 600 ml cafetière.Super recommended.

This is a nice little grinder for the price. I'm sure coffee snobs will find all sorts of problems with it, but it works perfectly well for my needs. It's easy to adjust grind size, and while it takes a while to grind 15g of beans, it's comfortable to use. It would be nice if it could be taken apart for easier cleaning.

The media could not be loaded. As you can see from my video this Grindr oozes with quality.The grinding process is easy and quiet originally bought it to be able to start it inside an aeropress. ( it doesn’t work with the original aeropress) so I had to get the XL aeropress.Cleaning was easy and they also provided a brush. If there were any downsides, I would only say that I wish it came with a mini pouch bag. Overall great product

È un prodotto costruito veramente bene, con macchinari e processi di qualità. Al pari di quelli più blasonati che costano molto di più. Unica pecca, ma è un problema tipico per questa tipologia di macina caffè, che la macinazione crea fenomeni elettrostatici per cui la polvere di caffè rimane appiccicata tenacemente sul corpo del macinino (per svuotarlo non basta versare la polvere, bisogna sempre passare per bene un pennellino). Per migliorare si possono umidificare preventivamente i chicchi (per esempio vaporizzandoci dell'acqua con degli spruzzini tipo quelli dei profumi) oppure tenendo il barattolo del caffè nel frigorifero.