As coffee gradually integrates into people's daily lives, more and more friends are choosing to brew their own coffee. The most important thing when brewing coffee is choosing the equipment! The quality of an appliance can directly affect the final taste of coffee. Among them, the one with the greatest impact is the "bean grinder".
Just like other coffee appliances, there are many styles of grinders on major shopping platforms. But compared to other appliances, the choice of grinder needs to be more careful! First, as we said before, it will affect the quality of grinding; second, because it is... more expensive...
On the shopping platform, we can see that the price gap between grinders is ridiculous! The cheapest one only costs about 20 yuan, but the most expensive one costs tens of thousands of yuan? The price difference of thousands of times has stopped these friends who are planning to purchase a grinder. With such a big gap, how should I buy a grinder? ? Therefore, in order to reduce the "burden" of friends, this article on Front Street will share the purchase ideas for bean grinders ~ I hope it can help friends buy the ideal bean grinder!
Should I choose a hand grinder or an electric grinder?
Hand-cranked and electric grinders have always been a big problem in choosing a grinder, because they each have their own major advantages. For example, the advantage of an electric grinder is that it can grind coffee beans more finely!
The main difference between the grinding fineness of hand-cranked and electric grinders is the cutterhead used. The cutterheads used in electric grinders are almost all ghost knives and flat knives, and most of them are flat knives! The structure of the flat-knife cutterhead is that the upper and lower cutterheads are placed in parallel, one is fixed, and the other cutterhead is connected to the motor and will run when the motor is started.
When the coffee beans are ground, they will be discharged from the gaps on both sides due to the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the lower cutterhead! Since the rotation is driven by a motor, there is almost no error caused by human influence, and the ground coffee particles will be more uniform and have less fine powder.
The cutterheads used in hand-cranked grinders are almost always conical. The tapered cutterhead is composed of an annular static cutterhead and a conical movable cutterhead!
From the picture, we can see that the gap through which coffee beans can pass has a diameter ranging from wide to narrow. This means that coffee beans will be ground a considerable number of times. Coupled with the uneven grinding rotation of human hands, the ground coffee particles will not be very uniform and it is easy to produce fine powder!
From the perspective of fineness, electric grinding has extremely high advantages. But you must know that hand cranking also has quite compelling advantages: it is affordable, portable, and does not require electricity. This is very friendly for friends who don’t live at home very often and can be taken wherever they want. So, how should you choose between hand cranking and electric grinding?
Front Street’s suggestion is: choose according to your wallet and needs! If your budget is less than 1,000 yuan, or you need to travel frequently or need coffee to keep you alive while commuting to and from get off work. Then choosing hand grinding will have more advantages than electric grinding! When it comes to hand grinding, it is recommended to buy a machine with a price of more than 200 yuan, because although there are indeed grinders priced under 200 yuan, many of them below 200 are "bean choppers" with the name of grinder. The beans are ground very unevenly, and the risk of being crushed is too high! So let’s be safe and buy the hand grinder you like within 200 yuan to 1,000 yuan~
If you have a higher budget (no upper limit), a larger storage space, and want to get it right in one step, then Front Street would recommend choosing an electric grinder! When purchasing an electric grinder, you also need to be wary of a "bean chopper", but compared to a hand grinder, the chance of getting hit is much smaller. The only thing you need to pay attention to is: whether it is an Italian grinder or a single-product grinder!
Italian grinders and single-piece grinders are very different in appearance and grinding range, and cannot be used universally (except for some extremely expensive ones)! Therefore, friends must pay attention to the difference between the two when purchasing, and then purchase, otherwise the trouble of returning or exchanging goods will still be relatively large~
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
