How to choose a hand grinder? The best hand grinder is the best grinder for you!

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6 minutes to tell you how to choose the "bean grinder"? Adjustment of scale thickness of bean grinder

The first impression of the hand bean grinder may be that it was bought because of the budget problem.

But in fact, the hand bean grinder has unique features-first of all, it does not need electricity, although it will consume our physical strength, but with a little effort, we can move our arms, save polar bears by saving energy and reducing emissions, and grind out coffee powder. What a hit!

In addition, the probability of coffee odor loss is also greatly reduced because it produces less heat. It is also possible to have a cup of coffee with friends anywhere, because it is easy to carry, easy to disassemble and assemble, and it is also suitable for going out to play. The most important thing is that the hand bean grinder has a good appearance and is suitable for all kinds of pose shapes, which can not be matched by ordinary electric bean grinders.

If you think about it, do you think what the editor said is very reasonable? Want to buy a hand bean grinder? Let the editor share with you the tips for choosing a hand bean grinder.

Tip 1: choose the one that can adjust the degree of grinding

To make a good cup of coffee, the grinding degree of coffee powder is very important.

Because the time required to extract water-soluble substances from coffee powder is an ideal standard, the coffee must be properly brewed in order to be good.

If the powder is very fine, the cooking time will be too long, and the coffee will easily be bitter and lose its aroma.

But if the powder is coarse and steamed too fast, the coffee is insipid.

In order to grind the most appropriate coffee powder, unless you have "absolute powder", it is very helpful to rely on the grinding scale!

Trick 2: choose ceramic cutterhead

The cutter head of the hand bean grinder is mostly cone-shaped cutter head, and the material is either metal or ceramic.

Although the force of the metal cutter head is greater than that of the ceramic one, the fineness grinding is less likely to be stuck and unable to move.

But the advantage of ceramic cutterhead is that it can be washed directly without the problem of rust. Considering that the metal knife head rusts after being used for a long time, it will also have an impact on the flavor of coffee, and it is easy to have a smell of metal and rust, so the ceramic knife head as a whole will be a more recommended option.

Trick 3: choose blades that can be "bilaterally" fixed

In the process of hand rotation, the leaves of the beans can put the coffee beans into the grinding.

However, many leaves are only fixed unilaterally, resulting in a tapered cutter head that is easy to shake, resulting in different sizes of coffee powder, so the extraction of coffee is not uniform, thus affecting the flavor of coffee. Therefore, when selecting, it is very important to choose the "bilateral" fixed blades. the sloshing of the blade can be adjusted left and right, so that the upper and lower cutter head can maintain a fixed distance, eliminating these problems caused by sloshing. Some foreign-made hand bean grinders are even more expensive than some low-end electric cutter grinders, such as the German century-old brand Zassenhaus, which produces coffee of comparable quality to professional bean grinders.

Tip 4: choose the bottom anti-skid design

Just imagine what will happen if there is no anti-skid at the bottom when using a hand bean grinder?

Isn't it easy for the whole machine to slide on the table, making the whole grinding more difficult? Therefore, be sure to choose a bean grinder with anti-skid at the bottom, this is a small place, and it is also a small detail that is easy to ignore, but it is the most interesting place to use, the non-skid base can not only fix the speed but also save effort!

Well, these are the tips for choosing a hand grinder-but the editor would like to clarify here that the editor does not suggest that everyone should buy a top hand grinder like Zassenhaus in order to grind good coffee powder. after all, the price is high, and it is hard to afford a poor guy like the editor.

So, if you love coffee as much as the editor, but you are not very picky, you can actually buy a general bean grinder to use with a sieve, which can greatly improve the quality of coffee powder. (just search for a coffee powder sieve.)

In addition, I would like to remind you that although the hand grinder has a scale to adjust the thickness of the powder, the grinding degree is still not as fine as the powder used in Espresso, but it is more than sufficient for hand flushing, French kettle, Eloc pressure and mocha pot, and it is not a problem.

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