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by switchbak 1406 days ago
I must disagree on the coffee grinder front. There's a great number of decent options well under your given price (I just took the plunge recently).

Brands like Ceado and Eureka make a bunch at various price ranges. 600 gets you a decent one, 1200 and you're well into very nice grinder territory (unless you wanna go all audiophile here).

There's not a ton to go wrong: good motor, bearings, a well designed adjustment mechanism and a good hopper design. Of those I'd really only expect the bearings and motor to die in any reasonable time frame.

If you're that concerned you could always get a commercial model. There's no way home use will kill one of those, but it'll just be big and impractical.
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slowmovintarget 1406 days ago
We landed on commercial coffee grinders for any with motors. The hand mill we ended up with does much better for pour-over coffee than any of the electrics at roughly a tenth of the price and counter space. Only requires elbow-grease and some good hand-torque.
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chiefalchemist 1406 days ago
Can I leverage your research for myself...Which hand grinder did you go with?
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yladiz 1406 days ago
I'm not sure what the parent uses but I really enjoy using my Comandante Mark IV (which solves some issues with Mark III had, namely around body design). It's high quality, reliable, and consistent, and also easy to maintain since there's only a few parts that need cleaning. There are also a range of colors if you want something more eye popping. For me the only downside (besides price, it's around €275) is that I find the large logo on the side a little gaudy, but in practice it's not that bad.
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slowmovintarget 1405 days ago
The Commandante is one of the ones we would have purchased, though it wasn't available when the pandemic was in full swing. The one that I ended up with was the BPlus Apollo hand-grinder (made in Taiwan).

Very sturdy, easy to use, easy to clean, and surprisingly quiet.

Random review: https://www.home-barista.com/blog/bplus-apollo-hand-grinder-...

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slowmovintarget 1405 days ago
The Kinu m47 was unavailable (fire in the factory, pandemic...).

Went with the BPlus Apollo. See my response below to yaldiz.

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switchbak 1405 days ago
I do like a good hand grinder, used one for years (Commandante) until I got lazy and wanted a machine to do the work.
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