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Grinder works great
By believethisreview on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020
I read other reviews on this product before purchasing a year ago. I was concerned by what I read. I would buy this product again because most of the issues people raise are just wrong. I purchased it to replace an older grinder/doser I have been fighting with for 15 years. There was always ground coffee left in the doser regardless of how much effort I put into preventing it. This product fixed that. Is the hopper too small? Not for my use. The hopper holds about 1 week of beans at the rate I use it. The point is you really don't want beans sitting in the hopper any more than you want ground coffee in a doser. Is the build quality poor? I have experienced no problems with operation or quality of the unit. It seems sturdy considering it has, built in, the most sensitive electronic scale in my home. I did have a problem with not being able to verify it's accuracy. I had to pull out an old beam balance scale to do that. Do the forks vibrate so much it makes the scale inaccurate? Mine works flawlessly with the portafilter from my Rancilio. Is it loud? Grinders do make noise, this one was more quiet than my doser based grinder. It did make a mess the first time I used it. The scale was set too high for my portafilter and the grounds kept spilling over the top until I shut it off. Newbie mistake on my part. You do end up with a few bits of ground coffee around the base after using it. You should probably not use it in bed. It does everything I wanted it to do. It delivers a consistent quantity of freshly ground coffee with more than enough flexibility in coarseness and quantity. It's not cheap, but I got what I paid for.
Top critical review
Coffee is NOT the only thing this grinds...
By George R. Ancona on Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
I owned this for six years and the plastic ring & pinion gears are ground down. I use this every day (one pot per day) with the exception when were out of town. I have owned a Braun burr grinder prior to this one over twenty years. I believe I paid $545 for this Baratza and now their getting just shy of $600... NOT worth it. It did a fantastic job of grinding but not for a hundred bucks a year. Trust me, please look elsewhere as now I'm going to have to.
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