Practical information | recommendation and introduction of bean grinder

If you want to taste the best flavor of coffee immediately, the best way is to use fresh grinding, as the coffee beans are ground into coffee powder, the aroma factor will dissipate over time, so the best way to taste is to use it when you want to drink it. In order to drink to the fresh mill, we must have a bean grinder. There are many brands, styles and types of bean grinders on the market. We recommend several bean grinders for you.

What is a bean grinder

As the name implies, the bean grinder is a machine that grinds coffee beans into powder, which comes into contact with a large area, which can extract the complete taste and aroma of coffee. Of course, the thickness of coffee powder depends on the way we cook and the cooking utensils we use, and bean grinders can usually be adjusted, so let's introduce several kinds of bean grinders.

Types of bean grinders

Manual / manual-cheaper option

With manual rotation, it is common to use a wooden box with a bowl shape and a rotating handle, which can also adjust the thickness of grinding, which is a little time-consuming and laborious in the grinding process. If you don't make Italian Espresso coffee, you can use a manual bean grinder. The disadvantage of the wooden box type is that it is unwashable, so that the oil residue produced by the coffee beans will appear over time, while the iron part should pay attention to rust, which on the one hand affects the taste. If there are iron shavings, it may also cause health concerns, so pay attention to the maintenance of the wooden box bean grinder. There are also many mailbox bean grinders made of glass and plastic on the market, which look like standing mailboxes as shown in the picture above. They can be washed and grease residues can be avoided, so they belong to the recommended appliances used by most people.

There are common Bafin House brand Welead stainless steel ceramic core grinding machine, the price is about 500 yuan, very close to the people and practical.

HG ONE top hand-ground beans

Unlike ordinary bean grinders, HG ONE can grind beans of Espresso quality, and it is also very suitable for grinding individual products. the small disadvantage is that if you want to grind the fine scale, it may be more difficult for girls to use. Friends who have used it share that using HG ONE to grind semantic Espresso will be very hard, but the rough scale of a single product is still easy. Espresso is to drink alone, if you want to do business, it will be very laborious and time-consuming, not worth it. Another advantage is that there is very little residual powder, easy to clean and absorb powder through static electricity; it is also very easy to clean up the whole machine, simple in design, and easy to disassemble and assemble; the disadvantage is that the price is very expensive, and the price set abroad is about NT $30,000. imports may be even more expensive. In addition, the taste is rich in layers, the aroma is also very good, the overall taste is clean and very bright. If the economy permits, friends who like manual very much recommend this HG ONE!

Electric-propeller / chopped bean / cutter / blade (blade-based) bean grinder

Is a very "not recommended" electric grinder, although the action of the bean chopper is very fast, but the grinding degree is very uneven, some beans have been cut dozens of knives, some one or two knives, you will find that the chopped beans are very uneven in thickness and affect the taste. What we can see on the market is the bean grinder in Electrolux, Sweden, which belongs to chopping beans.

Fuji R220 / Eagle CM300AU / Pegasus 600N

Electric-ghost tooth / flat cutter head (burr-based) bean grinder

The ghost tooth cutter / flat knife uses two grinding plates to grind the coffee beans. when the coffee beans are rotated through the plate, the coffee beans will be squeezed and crushed. Due to the design of the ghost tooth knife, the coffee beans are ground evenly and have multiple cutting surfaces. There will be more flavor when using filter paper for hand-flushing and siphon cooking. The disadvantage is that it is impossible to make Espresso and the particles are not fine enough.

Most people in Taiwan recommend Rmur220, made by Japanese brand Fuji, and most people call him "Little Fuji." the price falls around NT $15000, and the overall performance is very good. Many forums and blogs also recommend buying Little Fuji directly. Taiwan brands are most widely used and recommended are Flying Eagle CM300AU and Pegasus 600N, which cost about NT $3,000, also known as Pegasus and Pegasus. Both belong to flat knife electric bean grinders. In addition, the big Fuji Rmura 440, the big flying eagle CM520, the big Pegasus 207N and the small Fuji belong to the ghost tooth electric bean grinder. The comparison of the two cutters will be explained below. In addition, Pegasus 900N is a commercial Italian grinder made by Pegasus, with a price of about NT $9,000.

Baratza Encore is an American brand worth about NT $4,000. it is a product made in Taiwan, taking into account both individual grinding and Italian grinding, but fewer people use the brand Baratza, so after-sales service may not be convenient enough. In meticulous grinding, Encore will be better than Pegasus and Pegasus.

Eureka Mignon Istantaneo bean grinder is made in Italy, also referred to as MMG, the metal appearance is very textured, the operation interface is also very simple, suitable for people who do not like electronic panels or like simple interfaces to buy.

Breville bean grinder is a brand from Australia, not only a bean grinder but also a coffee machine, the panel is liquid crystal type, the grade is divided into 25 grades can also be ground to the Espresso grade, relatively few people in Taiwan use.

Baratza Encore / MMG (Eureka Mignon Istantaneo) /

Danish brand Bodum / Breville

Flat knife V.S. Conical knife V.S. Ghost tooth

Flat knife belongs to use-cutting, so that the contact area is large, the advantage is fast extraction, but a double-sided blade is also easy to over-extract.

The cone knife is in the way of rolling, resulting in thicker particles, which takes a long time to extract, but will not be over-extracted.

On the other hand, the ghost tooth balances the advantages of both sides.

A reminder of grinding beans

The thickness of grinding can be roughly divided into several types, very fine grinding, medium fine grinding, medium grinding, coarse grinding.

Very fine grinding is used in Italian coffee machine and Turkish coffee. Its appearance is as thick as fine sugar.

Fine grinding can also be used in ice droplets by cold bubble method.

Medium and fine grinding is used in hand filter paper and American coffee machine, and can also be used in ice droplets according to the extraction of curry beans.

Medium grind is used for siphon coffee Siphon and flannel filter bags.

Rough grinding is used in coffee pots.

For some special brewing methods such as Chemex hand brewing pot, the particle size of coffee powder can be adjusted by itself. Generally speaking, the most suitable coffee powder particles are between medium grinding and fine grinding.

If the grinding scale is determined and adjusted, do not often adjust it. Each adjustment must be tried more or less several times before you can adjust the scale that suits your own taste. In fact, it is difficult for a grinder to perform as well in both single and Italian grinding. Some are suitable for individual products and some are suitable for Espresso. Friends who not only use single products but also often use Espresso can suggest backup two sets and use them separately.

Cleaning is a very important issue. As mentioned in the previous introduction to the machine, coffee bean grinding will cause grease residue on the knife head, and oil dirt will cause odor after a long time, so cleaning is very important. In addition, the residual powder is also a part that needs to be cleaned. Outside cafes make a large number of coffee every day. The residual powder remains for a short time and will not affect the taste of the coffee, but if you use it at home after a day or two, the taste of the residual powder will greatly affect the next cup of coffee.

Whether the grinding is good or not is not judged by the naked eye or the sense of touch, but the most intuitive way is to rush down to see how it tastes. Comments or recommendations on the Internet are everyone's subjective feelings and may not be applicable to you. If you have the opportunity to try more in nearby coffee shops, or if you can afford to buy different types of machines, maybe the A grinding you use looks finer than B grinding. But in fact, B grinding tastes better.

Look for the taste that suits you, not the taste recommended by everyone. Everyone has their own taste of coffee that suits them.