JavaPresse Manual Stainless Steel Coffee Grinder - 18 Adjustable Settings, Portable Conical Burr Grinder for Camping, Travel, Espresso - With Hand Crank

This grinder worked so well that I ended up buying a second one for my office. It’s very affordable, simple to use, and easy to adjust depending on how fine or coarse you want your grind. The build feels solid, and once you follow the instructions, it works smoothly and consistently. The handle fits snug on the shaft so there was no issue with slippage. The adjustable settings are a big plus, especially if you brew coffee in different ways. The consistency in grinding was also very impressive. Yo user it and forget it. Overall, this is a great manual grinder that delivers excellent value. Follow the instructions and you really can’t go wrong.

I don't normally leave reviews of products I buy on Amazon, but there's a specific reason why I am writing a review for this product that you'll find out about shortly. In the meantime, here's a brief list of pros vs cons on this product! Pros: -Works great for the Aeropress using a somewhat "fine" course setting with the conical burr just about touching the inside burrs -While it does take a full 1-2 minutes to grind an Aeropress scoop worth of beans, it requires very minimal effort -Built-in window is a nice add-on -Relatively easy to clean -Oddly enough, it fits perfectly into the hollow part of the Aeropress plunger for easy transportation Cons: -This product is basically the same design as all the other hand grinders available on Amazon, with the same inherent design flaws -As with all hand grinders, the grind you get for your coffee is never 100% consistent -Plastic piece that sits inside the conical burr is very prone to breakage *****SEE BELOW***** Okay, now for the important part! While I cannot speak for the other companies that sell basically the same product, JavaPresse sets themselves apart for their PHENOMENAL customer service! The aforementioned plastic piece inside the conical burr on mine broke after only two months of multiple grinds per day usage. After contacting JavaPresse about my broken burr using their website, I received an email back from them in literally ten to fifteen minutes asking for my address to send me a whole replacement grinder. The person who responded also told me they were going to be releasing an upgraded burr with a nylon insert that would be available within the week. I responded with my address, thanked them for their prompt service and also asked them to alert me when the upgraded burr was available. In response not only did they send me a whole new grinder, but they had just received these upgraded burrs and sent them to me as well!!!! To say I was blown away by the immediate, prompt, and efficient response to my issues with this product is an understatement. Its not often you see or hear of customer service like this anymore!

The JavaPresse Manual Stainless Steel Coffee Grinder is a good and consistent grinder. It offers adjustable settings that allow for precise control over grind size, resulting in a uniform grind that works well for many brewing methods. One very useful feature is the receiving cup, which is great both for loading beans and for catching the ground coffee. The cup creates a secure seal with the grinder body, making it easy to manage the coffee grounds without mess. However, the main downside is that the grinder takes quite a long time to grind, especially for larger amounts. While the grind quality is impressive for a manual grinder, be prepared for patience during the grinding process. Overall, it’s a solid choice if you don’t mind spending extra time grinding by hand.

Great little grinder. In the past year my wife bought me what we thought would be a grinder that would last (Handground) It was pretty and had nice features but it did not stand the test of time. The Java Presse costs less than half of the Handground grinder, grinds faster and easier, is super lightweight with a smaller footprint and is much easier to dial in your grind. The Java Presse is made from lightweight stamped and rolled (stainless steel?) It is lightweight and has a good feel to it. The assembly is "friction fit" together, meaning the top, bottom and handle do not screw on or snap in but are designed to be a perfect fit onto the main body of the grinder and the friction of the fit holds this together. The arm has a hex cutout that fits over the hex shaped grinder shaft that drives the burrs. The catch pot at the bottom has a nice glass inlay that gives it a solid feel and enough weight for the grinder to stand on it's own. Compared to the Handground - 1. The Java Presse is easier to grind as the handle is connected directly to the grind shaft. The Handground has mechanical gearing in the top which allows the handle to move in a vertical direction as opposed to the planar direction of the Java Presse handle. This made it more difficult to grind and is what wore down and broke on the Handground 2. The Java Presse is quicker to grind. The Handground took about 100-110 rotations of the handle to grind 2 tablespoons of beans. For the same grind (French Press course grind) The Java Presse took about 70-80 turns for 2 tablespoons of seeds. This seems to be inherent of the direct drive and length of the handle. 3. The Java Presse is way quieter than the Handground. I would have to lift the Handground off the counter as the noise would reverberate through the countertop from grinding and it was still pretty loud. The Java Presse fits nicely in your hands and doesnt even feel like its grinding (it is) and hardly makes a peep. 4. The Handground would hold about 4x more beans than the Java Presse. The Java Presse holds about 2.5 tablespoons of beans at a time. Realistically, unless you want to grind your whole bag at once it's not a deal breaker. The Java Presse is the perfect size to make 32oz of French Presse coffee at a time. 5. The Handground has a dial around the middle of the grinder where you can dial in your grind from 1-8 in half steps. The Java Presse has a manual dial at the bottom of the burrs to dial in your grind. It seems a little more "finished" on the Handground but if you wanted to "fine tune" your grind the Java Presse falls on the "Analog" side of that. 6. The catch pot on the Java Presse slides over the bottom of the grinder and is held in place by friction. This may be the only downfall to this grinder. You naturally hold the pot in place while grinding but I could see where you might drop the pot if you dont grip the grinder firmly in the middle and hold the pot in place. The Handground had a glass catch that screwed into the bottom of the grinder. 7. Did I mention costs? For the price of the Handground you could buy 3 of the Java Presse grinders. If this little guy holds up for half as long as the Handground it's already a winner.

3/12/2017: I originally gave this grinder 4 stars. I have reduced it to 3 based on current usage. I have been using this grinder for french press coffee and after sifting the grounds i have been able to get a pretty decent cup of coffee. I have been ok with this result even when i was losing about 20% of my ground coffee. It was worth it to get that perfect cup. I recently bought a hario v60 and based on other reviews, this grinder is supposed to work better with finer grinds. I used 4 clicks from all the way to the right just where the burs start turning (as soon as the burs can turn, that's my first click). At 4 clicks, I aim to have a salt like texture. I tried this, and for the specific recipe i was using, it the draw time was double the time i expected. Coffee was really bitter. I tried 6 clicks. Coffee was better but still a bit bitter. 6 is a bit too much though.. I use 10 clicks for my french press. Today I did a test to see how inconsistent the grind was and maybe if I sifted, i could improve my coffee taste. I figured, if i lost 20% of my ground coffee, it would be acceptable as it already was with my french press. The sifter I use is a tea infuser... it's a metal mesh and it works great. It passes everything except salt size particles. What's sifted feels really powdery. It was a bit disappointing to see that only 40% of my coffee was left after sifting. Losing 60% of my ground coffee is not acceptable.I either got a bad unit, or I am really picky about how my coffee tastes. Refer to the pictures. I took the grinder apart and noticed a lot of wobble and sometimes you can see the center cone is off center. I noticed that there may be a little part missing which I have emailed Java Presse about. The first time they responded, and sent a replacement grinder which I really appreciated and think it makes them a great company to work with. However, the replacement suffered from what i think it's a missing part. I emailed them about that and got no response. I'll keep testing the grinder a bit more and I will report on my progress. 2/5/2017: I have had this manual grinder for a couple weeks now and I have been debating whether or not to write a review. There are a lot of things that I like about this grinder and a few things I don't which is why I just gave it 4 stars and not 5. However, after much reading about other grinders I am not sure if 4 stars is a fair rating and maybe I should give it a 5. First, I am not an expert on manual grinders or grinders at all for that matter. Prior to getting this grinder I had a blade grinder which I only had for a couple of weeks and probably used twice. I am not a big coffee drinker and I come from an instant coffee world... a few weeks back my wife asked me to get her some coffee which she really likes... so after reading I found out that the best coffee comes from grinding your own beans. I immediately started reading more and somehow I ended up buying the blade grinder... then I read some more and read that a drip coffee machine wouldn't cut it for the best coffee so I settled down with a French Press. I tried the blade grinder for a couple of times but the coffee was a bit inconsistent... after more reading I needed a burr grinder. After much research and since I was on a budget I decided to get this grinder. So the main reason to get this grinder was for my french press. I read a few reviews that this grinder was really good for a French Press. So, after testing this grinder with my French Press I have the following likes and dislikes: Likes: 1. Since I use it for French Press, the grinding time is not too long for about 30 grams of coffee. 30 grams even though I fill up the reservoir all the way to the top. 2. The ground coffee seems very consistent from grind to grind, although not very consistent grinds (explained later as part of my dislikes) 3. When I receive the product, I immediately got a lot of support either from the documentation in the packaging and links to videos on how to set it up, the different grinds, how to clean, disassemble and put it back together. I really liked this because you can immediately tell that the owners have put some thought into the product and their customers. 4. The finish of the product is outstanding and it looks like it's going to last a long time. Dislikes: 1. Even though I can repeat the grinds from grind to grind... a single grind contains a lot of different size pieces, and even a lot of fines...Even though i dislike this from this product, I have read that even more expensive bur grinder suffer from the same issue... Unless I get a commercial bur grinder I may always have this problem with coarse grinds like the French Press. Initially I would grind at its coarsest setting of 18 clicks and then sieve the grinds with a regular household sieve (plastic) and it would remove about 14% of my ground coffee. The coffee was good. After reading some, I decided to grind at 15 clicks and sieve again... this time I ended up removing up to 25% of my ground coffee... this is why a full reservoir of coffee grounds only yielded 30 grams of coffee. The cup of coffee that I got though was the best cup of coffee I've gotten out all my entire setup (fresh coffee, just a few days from roast, french press, kettle with thermometer). 2. I don't like that i have to sieve my coffee, but I've read that even the more expensive burr grinders suffer from this problem... so I don't know if I should fault this grinder for this or not. However, the reason why I gave the 4 stars instead of the 5 stars is because I think this problem could have been minimized if the burr mechanism would be a bit more steady... I have noticed that it wobbles a bit which is why I think why there are so many smaller grinds... maybe for the next generation some kind of fastener from the screw to the bottom of where the ground coffee goes could solve this issue. Again, I am not an expert but I am very picky with the stuff I buy. Overall, I really like this manual grinder... and if in the future I buy another one, I may add a comparison review.

5 Stars but, I'm not a professional so... tiwagos Anyway, it works as advertised. It seems solid and the ceramic grinding surfaces do a good job. The price was good too. It did arrive with a small dent in the top cover but that doesn't affect the performance of the grinder. I just repaired it with light taps of a punch and it looks fine. The grind-adjustment Star Nut has audible detent-clicks, and stays in the setting you set it to. The 2 see-through slots in the base are kinda cool but not really necessary. The only thing that would make this unit perfect would be if the inner support structure was metal and not plastic. But, that would push the price higher. Although it's a price I'd pay if it were all metal. That being said, this, as it is, is a product I'd buy again and recommend. Now I have to find the right beans. I'm currently grinding, AmazonFresh Colombia - medium roast [Arabica] and it's good. I think to get what I really want, I need to buy green coffee beans and roast them myself. A neighbor does this and his coffee is insanely good. Like jaw-droppingly good. ZERO bitterness BIG flavor. Also I just have to say, after living in this area for 7 years, all the Amazon drivers in my area are really conscientious. I never see them tossing packages or being disrespectful. Good folk.

I originally saw this product in a manual coffee grinder review video by a well-known coffee expert online. His major dislikes with the unit seemed to be the aesthetics and the fact that it tends to retain grinds inside the canister due to the construction. Because of these minor “issues”, and the reasonable price, I decided to try it out. What a disappointing experience. The overall problem is the inability of the unit to produce a consistent grind size, regardless of grind setting. I have dismantled the unit and provided photos to illustrate why it does not work properly. The first major issue, and one which cannot be remedied by any amount of adjustment or modification, is that the ceramic grinding ring was not centered in the bottom of the grinder housing before it was glued/set in place. It is clearly offset from one side to the other by at least 2mm (Photo 6). The second issue is another fatal blow to the functionality of the unit but something that would be so incredibly easy to fix during manufacture/assembly. The central metal rotor that runs the length of the unit is housed inside of a plastic tube. At the top of this central, plastic tube housing, there is a small plastic ring glued in place that has a diamond-like shape on the interior of the top side (Photo 4). This plastic seat serves as a lock for the other black plastic piece that slides onto the top end of the metal rotor during assembly, and keeps the rotor firmly centered in the unit, but still allows it to spin freely when turning the crank handle (Photo 7). Simple, cheap, and effective engineering. Bravo. There is also a small, black, plastic ring that slips over the bottom end of the metal rotor, which is identical to that which sits at the top end of the rotor (Photo 2). However, this plastic ring at the bottom does not lock into place in the bottom of the central black, plastic tube, because there is no interlocking seat to match the one found at the top of the central tube, allowing the plastic piece to float freely (Photo 1). As a result, the bottom end of the metal rotor (the actual business end where the conical burr sits) is not perfectly centered in the housing and wobbles and clicks from side to side, resulting in it being permanently offset (Photo 1). These photos are from the replacement unit that I received from JavaPresse. The first unit that I received became irreparably damaged after grinding about 300+g of coffee over the course of a couple weeks, trying desperately to get it to work properly. It wasn’t until I dismantled the first unit and inspected the burr cone that I discovered what was happening; it constantly rubbed against one side of the ceramic ring, to the extent that it rubbed the burr smooth over time (Photo 5). It makes me shudder to think of how much ceramic I have been drinking with my over-extracted espresso this entire time. The replacement unit (pictured) was even worse; It was completely locked in place and I could not even get the crank to turn until I had dialed the grinder out to about 7 clicks and, even then, it still rubbed against the outer ring and would sometimes completely lock up again. This entire experience has been absolutely soul crushing, not just because I am unable to grind coffee consistent enough to use my espresso machine, but also because the sloppy, slapdash craftsmanship has taken what could have been a great little machine, and turned it into a paperweight, and the idea of a company getting THAT close to making a great product, but then ruining it (through lack of quality control and oversight, and/or rushed production runs to pump out a certain number of units in a certain amount of time) absolutely grinds my gears (no pun intended). All they had to do was take the extra, tiny bit of time during production to mount the parts in a jig prior to gluing the ceramic ring into the grinder housing, and the extra step of gluing a plastic seat into the bottom of the central plastic tube where the rotors sits, and this grinder would have nothing but 5-star reviews, and the occasional bad review from someone who didn’t understand that a manual grinder would require a modicum of effort and energy to operate. I feel obligated to mention that when I contacted JavaPresse about the first unit, they were incredibly apologetic, and sent me a new grinder to replace the defective one. Great customer service. It’s just too bad that their customer service is wasted on a complete garbage product.

This thing works great, is good quality and looks good on the counter, I use it to grind other things aswell

.. for better grip and less muscle fatigue Product works great

Very low quality you can buy better one with stainless steel core and still cheaper than it

Best little grinder ever

It is not a useful article, it goes very badly, I will explain myself: *You can spend 10 minutes turning the crank to grind coffee for a double measure. *The degree of grinding is constantly changing and you have to be regulating it all the time. *Occasionally the grain inlet to the millstones clogs and you have to unclog it. * The materials are very very shabby, totally cheap. It doesn't make sense at this price. If the case were that it is a technical tool and the material was secondary, well... I wouldn't mind, but the truth is that the operation is painful. Wasted money. No es un artículo útil, va muy mal, me explicaré: *Puedes pasar 10 minutos dándole a la manivela para moler café para una medida doble. *El grado de molido se cambia constantemente y hay que estar regulandolo todo el tiempo. *De vez en cuando la entrada de grano a las muelas se obtura y hay que desatorar lo. * Los materiales son muy muy cutres, barato total. No tiene sentido a este precio. Si el caso fuera que se trata de una herramienta técnica y el material fuera secundario, bueno... no me importaría, pero la verdad es que el funcionamiento es penoso. Dinero tirado a la basura.

Algunas personas recomiendan molinos con muelas de metal, en vez de cerámica. Sin embargo, si recién inician en estos temas, este molino es una muy buena alternativa por su relación calidad-precio. Con este molino he podido obtener muy buenos espressos. La foto muestra la textura que se puede obtener con este molino con un grano black honey (y aún se puede hacer más fino). Un punto a considerar es que si los granos no están muy tostados, en ocasiones puede sentirse como si el molino se trabara. En ese caso no recomiendo aplicar más fuerza, sino girar brevemente en contrasentido para que los granos se acomoden mejor y luego continuar.