Friends who have requirements for coffee flavor will definitely choose freshly ground coffee. If you want to brew your own beans, a grinder is essential.
Open an online shopping platform and search for "bean grinder", and you can see the price range from 22 yuan to 71,271 yuan. This is a price difference of 3239.6 times. Although it is insignificant compared to the "100 million" figures that have been encountered in recent days, the price difference between the products is outrageous. Therefore, Front Street plans to publish an article on how to choose a grinder for your reference.
Front Street is not an equipment expert, so professional horizontal evaluation of bean grinders is not what Front Street is good at. However, Front Street has been in business for 8 years and has used seven or eight electric grinders, as well as hand grinders that are basically popular on the market. Let’s share some of Front Street’s opinions on using so many grinders.
Hand grinding or electric grinding?
Electric grinders surpass hand grinders in all aspects of accuracy, durability, and price. The advantage of hand grinders is that they are lightweight, do not use electricity, and can adapt to such situations. Comparing hand grinders with electric grinders at the same price, hand grinders are better. (A 1,000-yuan hand grinder has a great advantage over a 1,000-yuan electric grinder)
Front Street lists some people who are suitable for choosing hand grinding or electric grinding. You can refer to it.
If you are a student party (still living in the school dormitory)
The budget won’t be too big (less than 1,000)
I just started brewing coffee by hand and want to slowly explore it.
I usually visit chain coffee shops and want to improve the quality of my coffee.
fitness enthusiast
Hiking enthusiasts and business travelers
Then it is recommended that you choose hand grinding first, and then consider electric grinding later.
If you want to get it right in one step
Make coffee at a fixed location
Sufficient budget (no upper limit)
You might as well go straight into the electric grinder.
If you are an equipment partySo take all the suggestions.
How to choose a hand grinder?
Nowadays, domestic hand grinders are on the rise. Hand grinders that cost thousands of yuan abroad can be sold for less than 500 yuan in China. So how to choose? Let’s not talk about the basic hand grinders under 200, the hand grinders with ceramic cutterheads, and the retro hand grinders.
The rest are roughly divided into the range of 200-499 yuan, the range of 500-799 yuan, the range of 800-999 yuan, and the range of more than 1,000 yuan.
The range of 200-499 yuan is considered an entry-level hand grinder. You can pay attention to the grinding particle size of the coffee. When purchasing, just pay attention to whether it is a double-axis machine. In terms of life, accuracy, and mechanics, they are basically the same. Suitable for novice parties and office white-collar workers to buy.The range of 500-799 yuan is considered an advanced version of hand grinding. Basically, each manufacturer will use a better cutterhead, and there will be slight improvements in the bearings, which will improve the durability a lot. It is recommended to choose a cutterhead with a large diameter, which will save effort and even grinding. Basically buy a hand grinder at this price, pay attention to cleaning it regularly, and it will not be a problem if you use it for two years.The price range of 800-999 yuan is considered a high-end version of the hand grinder. Basically, there are only 3 models to choose from, which basically improve the user experience and innovate the appearance (good-looking). Of course, you can see the improvement in the data chart provided by the store (mobile phone manufacturers directly call the experts), but in actual experience on Front Street, when making coffee, you will not feel any obvious difference from the advanced version.
Let’s consider the stalls priced above 1,000 yuan as expert level. You ask, why is Front Street not divided into 1,000-2,000 and 2,000-3,000 grades? Because for more than 2,000, Front Street will recommend you to go directly to the electric grinder to save trouble. Indeed, there are hand grinders that cost more than 1,000 yuan, including 1,000 yuan, 2,000 yuan, and 4,000 yuan. There are famous German hand grinders that have increased from 1,500 yuan to 2,500 yuan. In general, the quality and experience will definitely be visibly improved compared to those priced below 1,000 yuan.How to choose an electric grinder?
Front Street specifically does not recommend buying that kind of portable electric grinder. You can pay attention to the grinder that determines the grinding degree based on time, commonly known as "bean chopper". It has a structure similar to a food processor, with two blades that chop randomly.
One thing you need to pay attention to when buying an electric grinder is whether you want a very fine Italian grinder or a hand grinder for drip filtering. The appearance and grinding range of the two are very different, and they basically cannot be used for both purposes (except for some universal grinders).
If you have a budget of 20,000, choose Mazzer zm filter and Mahlkonig EK 43. In addition to the relatively beautiful price and relatively large floor space, there is basically no reason not to buy it.
Of course, the budget of most friends is not too high, probably within 4,000 yuan, so what are the options? Front Street believes that Royal Little Fuji and Fellow ODE are good choices. The main selling point of Royal Little Fuji is the ghost tooth cutterhead, and its grinding degree is also relatively suitable for drip grinding, which is mainly hand-pressed. Fellow ODE is small, pure black in color, known as a small black box, and has perfect appearance. Both grinders are small electric grinders, so they have a common problem: the grinding time is relatively long.
Some friends also asked Front Street whether they can trust the small Fuji with a price of 300-600 yuan on the online shopping platform? I quickly took a look at Front Street. There were various shapes of small Fujis inside, with the words "small steel cannon", "completed version" and "domestic small Fuji" written in the text. The Little Fuji seen on an overseas online shopping platform is equivalent to more than 3,300 yuan. This is obviously an imitator of the Royal Little Fuji.
Front Street has not used these grinders, but Front Street has used Little Pegasus 610N, which costs about 800-900 yuan. Comparing the grinding with Little Fuji, Little Pegasus lost to Little Fuji in terms of accuracy, especially in the amount of fine powder, which is terrible. The experience of a barista on Front Street Street: When I only use Pegasus, I don’t notice any problems, but when I compare them, the difference is immediately noticeable. As for the performance of "Little Fuji" priced at 300-600 yuan, Front Street cannot make an assessment.
There are also many electric grinders that are relatively cheap and of good quality, but since I haven’t used them in Front Street, I won’t talk about them.
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
