How much is a bean grinder? How to choose a bean grinder that suits you

For novice coffee, it is easy to buy cheap bean choppers, bean grinders, or even hand bean grinders. Don't have the idea of "I'm a beginner, just use a cheap hand grinder". An easy hand grinder is more expensive than many bad electric grinders, and you really want to give up learning to make coffee when it comes to a difficult hand grinder. Although it is said that a good bean grinder, the price will make you a little heartache. But buying a hard-to-use bean grinder will give you a headache, plus the heartache of wasting money. Even if you buy the best coffee beans, it doesn't show its delicious flavor.

So which bean grinders can be considered? Today, we will first focus on the electric bean grinder, whether you want to hand-flush, siphon, love pressure, or mocha pot at home, these bean grinders can basically cover your needs, but everyone's budget and needs for equipment are different. You will want to say that I bought a more expensive bean grinder, what on earth did I buy? This article is to tell you.

The Little Eagle and Pegasus

Flying Eagle and Pegasus are basically imitated from the Japanese Kalita nice cut bean grinder, which is a low-level electric bean grinder that many early beginners will come into contact with. Pegasus and Pegasus bean grinders are cheap, but the performance of coffee flavor is very limited. If you think you will step into the coffee field step by step, do not recommend buying, because your ability may be improved in the future, but because of the equipment, can not show your skills.

Price: around 1499 to 3000

Cutter head: flat knife

Advantages: low price

Disadvantages: coffee flavor performance is limited

Origin: Taiwan

Alcohol fresh electric slow grinder

The "mellow fresh" bean grinder designed from Taiwan has been upgraded to the third generation of precision ceramic cutters in 2019, upgrading the sweetness and aroma. The biggest advantage of the "mellow fresh bean grinder" is the detachable cleaning of the whole machine, because the biggest fatal wound of the bean grinder is the need to open the knife head regularly to clean up the coffee powder stuck on the knife head. If the residual powder stuck in the cutter head is not cleared, it will affect the whole cooking flavor for a long time over the years, and the advantage of detachable cleaning of mellow bean grinder completely solves this problem. Slow grinding way to avoid the rapid heating of the machine, affecting the flavor of coffee.

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Price: 3500

Cutter head: the third generation precision ceramic cone cutter

Advantages: very high CP value

Disadvantages: the opening of the bean trough is slightly smaller

Origin: Taiwan

Little Fuji

Small Fuji is a widely acclaimed bean grinder, in addition to home, many coffee shops will also use this one directly for business use. Little Fuji has two kinds of cutters, one is the ordinary version of the ghost tooth cutter, and the other is the special version of the flat knife in cooperation with the KONO brand, but today we compare the small Fuji ghost tooth cutter with the Kalita Next G at the same price. In fact, the ghost tooth cutter of little Fuji is like the way of molar bite, which will grind out a three-dimensional granular feeling, and the appropriate amount of fine powder achieves his mellow thickness. The coffee brewed with little Fuji has a very clean taste. But in terms of levels, Kalita Next G will be more diverse, so these two bean grinders are entirely based on the preferences of users to choose.

Price: 16500 / 21000 (price varies according to color)

Cutter head: ghost teeth

Features: uniform grinding degree and clean taste

Disadvantages: high price

Origin: Japan

Kalita Next G

Because the price of Kalita Next G is about the same as that of Xiao Fuji, the two machines are often compared in flavor. Kalita Next G features a flat knife type "ceramic cutter head". The design of the ceramic cutter head reduces heating and the production of fine powder, which is half less than that of the old model. In addition, there is the function of preventing static electricity, which solves the problem of sticking out of coffee powder in the process of grinding beans, and the mouth of coffee beans will be miraculously clean after grinding. With a special shaped steel cup, the coffee powder will magically fall straight into the powder receiver, solving the problem of grinding beans and coffee powder at home, which is very suitable for people with cleanliness addicts. The low-speed grinding method of Kalita Next G reduces the factors that affect the quality of coffee powder caused by the heating of the machine due to grinding beans, and also reduces the noise of grinding beans by 65%. It is also equipped with a security mechanism, which needs to be plugged into the bean trough machine to start. Kalita Next flat knife, flaky grinding of beans, produces more fine powder and has more layering in flavor.

Price: 13500

Cutter head: ceramic flat knife

Features: anti-static function

Advantages: safety protection mechanism, low speed bean grinding, low noise, convenient front switch

Disadvantages: the scale is not marked numerically.

Origin: Japan