Coffee beginners choose a hand mill or an electric mill?

From the moment I decided to make my own coffee, there should be a bean grinder and brewing utensils. We should choose a hand grinder or an electric bean grinder. Today, the editor will come to talk to you about this.

Advantages and disadvantages of hand bean grinder VS

Advantages:

1. Small size and easy to carry

two。 No need to use power supply

3. You can exercise to some extent.

4. The cheapest hand mill is very cheap.

Disadvantages:

1. Relatively uneven grinding

two。 The trouble of adjusting the scale

two。 Compared with electric mill, it takes time and effort.

With regard to the relatively uneven hand grinding, mainly because of the design of the grinding plate, most of the hand grinding uses a tapered knife, which is characterized by fast but uneven grinding, and the relatively uniform grinding is parallel sharpening, but parallel grinding is also characterized by slow speed, that is to say, it takes 3-5 times longer to grind the same number of grams of powder, so hand grinding basically does not use parallel grinding.

Parallel grinding knife, you can think of the stone grinding of flour in rural areas, by adjusting the distance between the upper and lower grinding plates to control the powder thickness, high precision and uniform grinding.

Most of the hand grinding is a tapered grinding knife, which is grinded through the channel of the daughter grinding plate, because of the great difference between the upper and lower parts of the grinding knife, the grinding speed is fast but the precision is low.

Hand bean grinder because there is no scale prompt, so to change a thickness, such as from the normal pressure to the thickness of the siphon pot, you need to grope for adjustment, wasting some time and beans.

The price of the entry-level hand mill is very cheap, and the editor suggests that if you are not sure that you will like coffee, just try not to invest too much first, you can upgrade if you like it. Therefore, the entry-level hand bean grinder, do not buy too expensive, I think about 100 yuan can, silver friends can ignore this part of the price, but then the high-end is mainly conical knife, the improvement of evenness is not obvious.

Let's talk about the electric bean grinder, hereinafter referred to as the electric mill.

Because it is an introduction, the first thing that comes to mind is the appliances that do not spend much money. Hand cheap dozens of yuan, about a hundred yuan on the point, but there are also a lot of tens of yuan electric mill on the Internet, how about this?

This kind of knife grinding structure, which we call the bean chopper, cannot adjust the scale, and it is extremely uneven. The coffee ground with the bean chopper is not granular but flaky, which is very different from the hand grinding quality at the same price, let alone compared with the parallel grinding plate. So do not buy this at all, the electric mill of about 100 yuan is mostly this kind of structure, and there are some miscellaneous electric mills, most of the grinding quality is not high, so this price is still reliable. To put it simply, if you want to buy an electric mill, or at least buy a little flying eagle, the bean chopper will only waste your money and beans. Small flying eagle as an entry-level single electric bean grinder the original effect is good, many cafes also use it, shanzhai is good and bad intermingled, you should pay attention to the purchase.

The summary is actually very simple: choose an inexpensive hand mill at the beginning, buy a decent electric mill after you like coffee, and use the hand as a backup mill or a business trip mill, it should be a more reasonable combination, the two do not conflict.