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I read most reviews of most grinders and settled on this one. Trust me, I do it carefully and it still spills. My experience has not been as good as most. Every time I grind the coffee and transfer it to the cone, a fair amount of coffee spills all over the counter. There's also a fair amount of ground coffee around the machine itself. Not once I have used it without having to spend "clean up" time.
I bought this to replace a blade grinder when I bought a new espresso maker. This means you end up with stray grounds everywhere. I will admit it does a good job and the grind is consistent. I have two complaints however.First the small plastic hopper for the grounds holds a static charge. Also after you pull the hopper out grounds fall out from the grinding wheels. They fall behind the little hopper so if you don't clean them out every time when you put the hopper back in it doesn't fit tight which means more stray grounds and so on.Second if you grind a mildly oily coffee or more (Sumatra regular roasts for example)the beans don't feed into the grinder and so you come up short on the grind for your pot unless you give it a little rap to jar the beans and you do have to give it a little rap to get the beans to flow down and grind again.Each of these knocks caused me to reduce my rating by one star as I consider them annoyances.
So far, money well spent. I've never spent this much on a grinder before. After a $50 Krups lasted about three months, I decided to give this a try. Well thought out, with a large easily accessible hopper and a bin that empties easily. Relatively quiet, and the grind is indistinguishable from grind found in a can - but this is fresh.
I was quite disappointed when we got this new model as it has major static electricity issues which I believe are due to the plastic housing. This is our second Bodum Grinder. Coffee grounds are always expelled around the grinder leaving a large mess. The first we had for several years before the motor burned out. That model had a metal housing and it worked very well. Also the hopper does not work well to process the beans, so that you are required to manually press the beans down or it will continue to grind without any beans, which is perhaps due to the static issues. Overall I am quite disappointed with this new model of Bodum.
We have been using the Bodum burr grinder for several months and have been satisfied with the purchase. We do not experience any problems with static electricity or ground coffee remaining inside the unit. We purchased ours directly from Bodum for a lower price than Amazon, with free shipping. Set up is a breeze, but the learning curve for amount of coffee and size of grind does take some time. Slight drawback is the amount of noise created by the unit during grinding. Overall a good buy.
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