Comments on: Bestselling Coffee Bean Grinder

By: Bina

Bina — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:37:32 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Did you put the burr in upside down?
I bought this grinder for my French Press and it grinds the beans perfectly! After my 2nd week, though, as I was rushing to make some coffee, I placed the burr in upside down and…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:34:34 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice grinder… & a tip to keep your counter clean
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The good: The grinder does a great job, producing finely ground, uniform grains that make absolutely fabulous coffee in my old, hand-pour Melitta cone.

By: Iren

Iren — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:59:47 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Fabulous Coffee Grinder!
Fabulous! It performs consistently and the coffee is great.
This Bean Grinder was purchased for an office of about 25 people so it gets alot of wear and tear.

By: Prue

Prue — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:16:38 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Works Great with Pasquini Espresso Machine
We have a Pasquini Livia 90 espresso machine, and I needed a grinder that could grind fine enough for this machine.

By: Frye

Frye — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:08:38 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
works great
everything is good except it being mostly plastic i suppose one of these days it will accidentally be dropped and break.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:38:43 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Worthy of Investment!
Lets just say that I love coffee. I roast my own and know all the secrets to get a perfect cup of coffee. With that said, I am a coffee lover on a budget.

By: Durin

Durin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:10:24 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Capresso grinder
This Grinder makes great coffee. The grounds are even, etc.
However, it is not as easy to clean as the Product Description states.

By: Galia

Galia — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:08:26 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
great, a little pricey
This is my first burr grinder so I haven’t anything to compare it to, but it works very well, is quiet and very simple to operate and assemble, the grounds are even, and there is…

By: Hailey

Hailey — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:11:43 +0000

The Capresso 560 is about the best grinder for the money that I've seen, but it still has a nasty drawback, in my opinion.

On the plus side are the nice conical burrs, the reduced burr speed, a good range of grind settings with good consistency, a clear plastic bean container that lets you see what's going on in the grinding chamber, and the easily-removeable top burr that makes it easy to clean the grinding chamber.

The drawback (to me, anyway) is the significant amount of coffee that remains in the grinding chamber and exit chute when you're done grinding. The instructions say not to grind more than you're going to use in the next hour, because the ground coffee goes stale quickly and attracts other odors. Obviously, this will happen to the coffee left over in the chamber and chute, and you'll get that stale coffee with the next use of the grinder. Since you bought the grinder to get the freshest possible ground coffee with every brew, this seems to defeat that purpose.

So the 560 has a lot of good attributes, but it would have been MUCH nicer if the designers had been able to shrink the grinding chamber so that less coffee was left inside there after grinding, and to reduce the size of or eliminate the tunnel-like exit chute that retains grounds between uses.

By: Philander

Philander — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:50:37 +0000

1.0 out of 5 stars
Design bad, construction worse.
This thing has never worked properly. With mine, you have to keep your hand on top or it stops grinding, and even then you have to jiggle your hand around til you are pressing it…