9702A Coffee Grinder (Matte Black)

Works great!!

Edit: It's been a year and still working all day like it was new. Still would give it 5 ***** This dry, smokey summer I finally experienced summer days that resulted in static conditions in the powder container. I ran a couple of experiments and the top 2 are: 2) after grinding I ran water over the bottom OUTSIDE of the ground collecting container (please NOT the machine. Never run water over the machine). Then a couple of taps and no static. My water is high mental so better water may produce other results. 1) use a stainless still container. No static. This worked better than the container that came with the Burr so now I am using a stainless steel measuring cup and holding it to catch the grind.2022 original review: My blade grinder luckily died just before Black Friday. I opted to take a chance on this other option of grinding, the Burr grinder. After research I picked conical and stainless steel. I feel lucky I found and bought this brand! The grind amount is spot on. I enjoyed exploring the options between course - powder grinds to pick the perfect grind. After finding that setting every pot is perfect.I ground 5 different settings for a friend of mine who was thinking about upgrading to a Burr grinder. The machine grounded each perfectly without a rest.The directions say to 'clean after every use.' I clean every weekend. I use the grinder 7-10 times/ week. The little machine seems happy with this. If the hopper holds beans for several grinds, why would I need to clean after every grind?The hopper does not hold a bag of coffee. For us consumers in apartments/ small kitchens this is PERFECT. There are larger (more $$$$) machines that hold full bags of coffee. If you need an excellent machine with a small footprint this is the one.

This is (obviously) less labor-intensive than my manual ceramic burr grinder. It’s pretty quick & easy. My biggest beef with this is the STATIC. The coffee seems to get charged & with a plastic receptacle the ground coffee winds up all over the preparation surface. So you’re probably going to be wasting a gram or two each time you prep. It helps if you can let it sit for a while before pulling it out to use the coffee, but that’s pretty counter-intuitive when you’re looking for fresh-ground coffee. (Trial, error & too much multitasking led me to the “let it rest” solution. But I don’t always have time to do that.)This nearly made me return it. But I’m lazy & the grind is quick enough that it doesn’t seem to impact the taste, so I decided to put up with the coffee explosion because I caught this on a sale for about a quarter of the price of the la-dee-dah brand I’d researched & it does the trick.Also, it does get a weird metallic burning smell if it runs for more than a second it takes to grind the brand. So if I’m grinding a double-batch. & My time estimate is off, I just hit the button again to turn it off ASAP.I prefer the coffee using my manual ceramic burr grinder, but some days that’s just not happening.So, if that won’t make you crazy, it’s a good little grinder that’s simple to use.

The media could not be loaded. I had high hopes for this coffee grinder based on the good reviews, but after two uses it stopped working. Honestly, this is what i'd expect from a $12 coffee grinder from Dollar General. It's junk.Even before it stopped working, the design was poor. If it didn't fail, I'd probably still give it a 3 star rating because the way the hopper is designed, you have to sit with the the grinder while its grinding and constantly shake it for the beans to fall into the hopper. Otherwise, it will grind some beans, but leave a gap of air between the grinder and the beans in the hopper, so you're constantly shaking the grinder so the beans continue to fall.After the 2nd use, it completely stopped griding beans. The baldes still spin, but its so impacted with coffee grains that it won't grind any new beans. It now grinds until it smokes then it shuts down. At this point it either needs to be disassembled to be cleaned or perhaps I can take it out the garage and blow it out with high power compressed air. Either way, I don't expect to do that after every two uses, especially with 18" of snow and 15 degree weather like when it stoped workin last week.IF you buy it, and your blades don't bind up from coffee grains, it's still not a great grinder because of the hopper design. Definitely not the quality or design I'd expect for the price. If yours does stop grinding, like mine, after 2 uses, then clearly it's not worth buying at all.Personally, I'd suggest another model. I'll be spending more on something better and this one will most likely wind up in the dumpster

So first off I would totally buy this again as a drip coffee drinker. I don't know how well it would work on espresso grind but it seems very fine.Pros - easy to clean, easy to use, nice hoper size for beans, reasonable grind containerCons - oily beans suck, it builds up static very quicklyHow to use -So there are a couple of things to do on this.One if you have oily beans you need to push the beans down or jiggle the machine, dry beans feed in just fine.Two I highly recommend a fine mist spray bottle, spray the top of the grounds container and inside the container... If you do not do this and use it daily you will start having coffe grounds flying all over the place.Those being said it is working great. I use it 2 times a day on the 12 cup setting and a very corse grind and clean it... Every 3 ish months. Costco beans are super oily and I haven't figured out a way to get them to feed in, I even removed the guard in the hoper. But cheapy Amazon beans are dry and work great.