Cuisinart Coffee Burr Grinder | At-home coffee grinder | 4-18 cups | 18 grind settings | Different brew strengths - espresso, cold brew, latte, cappuccino | dishwasher safe | easy-to-use

A great machine, still going strong after several years of use. Nice coarse grinds available for a 70s percolator and intermediate settings are great for cafetiere. Not fine enough setting for my new ROK hand press espresso maker; however a simple modification is possible by making a plastic shim to bring the grinding burrs closer together. Here's how. Remove the bean hopper completely (spin anti-clockwise)to reveal the attached upper burr. Remove the 3 small screws taking care not to damage their heads and the burr can be removed. Draw around the inside and outside of the burr on a very thin plastic sheet such as a strawberry punnet or margarine tub lid. Also mark the 3 screw holes. Cut out this ring shape and drill out the 3 screw holes. Place your shim between the hopper and burr and re-attach the 3 screws firmly. Easier than it sounds! IMPORTANT: re-attach the bean hopper to the unplugged machine and stop at the first course setting. With the grounds tub removed, spin the lower burr (visible in the outlet chute)with your finger to check for free spinning movement. Gradually click the hopper round to finer settings, spinning the lower burr each time. You will reach a point where the burrs just touch and will no longer spin by hand. Go back one click on the hopper and mark this as the finest setting on the machine- NEVER go beyond this setting or you will damage the burrs. What a difference for my ROK hand press! It should help other espresso machines too and saves buying a different grinder. Of course, you have lost the most coarse setting. To restore it, I bought a second hopper (complete with lid and upper burr)from customer services for £10 delivered. (Most parts are available promptly at reasonable price). I hope owners and prospective buyers find this information useful. 2022 UPDATE: Yes, this grinder is still going strong without any problems, 12 years on. I did buy a new plastic grounds tub as the original got rather scuffed-very easy and quick from customer service. I now drink Hario V60 pour-over style coffee so don’t need the fine grind of an added shim on the burr. Yes it’s noisy and a bit of a faff to clean completely but easily fits into the ‘good enough and reliable’ category with spares available. Happy brewing! ☕️

I've been using this mill every morning for the past 3 months with a few different beans, although no elephants yet, and am very very pleased with it. To echo what others have said, and add my two pence worth..... I find it makes perfect (paper) filter grind on the fifth notch from finest. Looks like a very even grind, with no residue in the jug or the cup. Set the cup selector (8 to make 4 mugs of coffee, 4 to make 2 mugs), press the button, fill up the coffee machine with water while you wait, then pour the entire freshly ground contents into the filter. Couldn't be easier. I shut the kitchen door when grinding so I don't wake my wife two rooms away. It's certainly not quiet, but it's grinding coffee so what do you expect? It's no louder than 'professional' grinders. My cats aren't bothered by the noise, so it can't be that loud. They run a mile when I vacuum the flat! The problems with static were a bit annoying at first. I appreciated the tip in another review of using the back of a spoon to discharge it, but found it's easier to just wipe your hand around the outside of the container. I've never had a shock. You can always touch the metal chassis of the grinder while you do it and this will discharge you. Static seems to have lessened considerably over time (Perspex is highly statically charged when it's manufactured, but once you have worked with it for a while, the static wears off) and this morning when I ran my hand over it there was just a tiny bit of charge at the base of the rear of the container. In any case, give it a couple of heavy taps (with your thumb over the hole!) before you remove the lid, as your worktop can soon get messy if there's charge, as grinds go flying everywhere. (Just to be clear, this doesn't happen if I'm careful!) Cleaning is a breeze with the supplied brush. You could easily use a cotton bud if the brush ever went missing. I've not had to dismantle it yet for any reason..... After a bit of trial and error, suitable cafétière grind appears to be bang on medium. (You can tell if it's too fine as the coffee tastes powdery.) The grind is very even, with a surprisingly minimal amount of residue in the cup when ground. I have no idea what coarse is supposed to be for, as I've never felt the need to push it that far! (I don't make espresso, so I make no claim in favour or otherwise for its espresso grinding capabilities.) I really don't like giving products 5 stars, but I can't think of anything that would make it better! One of the best £55 I've ever spent!

Good grinder easy to use and clean. Can be a little static but it's nothing a tap on the side doest sort out. Grinds well and is perfectly acceptable for use in espresso machine. We find setting 4-7 are great for French press. And 1-3 are fine in the espresso machine. It's a little loud but for the price is a great machine and seems very reliable.

For the price, you can’t really go wrong unless you want to use this for a fine espresso grind. However, if you've spent thousands on a decent coffee machine, you're hopefully not going to skimp on getting yourself a decent grinder, are you? In my humble opinion, and I’m no coffee expert, I’d say this does the job for everything except espresso. My reason for getting this was to get a slightly better grind compared to the one I was getting with my Gaggia Brera's internal grinder. And for this, it has worked perfectly. It’s noisy, messy and static is a bit of a problem as others have commented but, that aside, it works exactly as described and has enough settings to find the level of grind suitable for whatever you’re grinding coffee for (except espresso). However, if you're willing to invalidate your warranty, there is a simple mod you can make (look on youtube) to it to improve the fine grind setting and this has worked for me to achieve a grind, good enough for espresso. How much additional strain this will put on the grinder, only time will tell. All in all, you get what you pay for and this is a great little, cheap, reliable, entry level grinder.

We have had this coffee mill for several years and we are very happy with it. It is used at least once a day, often more frequently. We use ours with a Bodum coffee press. I have to say though that it seems to be becoming more difficult to buy real coffee beans in supermarkets, as everyone is going for those 'added value' rubbishy dosette things (watch for the machines in charity shops in a year or two, like teasmaids and Carmen rollers before them) so there is no shelf space allocated to bags of beans. You adjust the grind by twisting the hopper on the top. My only beef with that is that if you move the grinder across the worktop or wipe the dust off it you can inadvertently change the grind setting. You start it by pressing down on the bar above the hopper at the front. This is also a sliding switch which governs what dose of beans gets ground, so as per my comment above, if you dust it the setting can get moved. We've found that about no.6 on the slider gives us 4 heaped scoops of ground coffee which makes a large pot of coffee (5 or so china mugs of black 'Americano') The ground beans are fed into the clear hopper on the front which slides out and has a lid on the top. The powder is fed in through a small oblong hole at the back and the top. This works very much better at keeping the powder in it than my previous grinder where, as you removed the box, the ground coffee used to spill out through the back of it, all over the machine and the worktop. The powder will stick to the inside of the box, but that is static electricity and it's going to happen with any grinder. Keep the lid on and tap the box a couple of times on the worktop and most of the powder will unstick. It is bigger than a spice grinder, so it takes up more worktop 'real estate' and it's not something you're likely to put in a cupboard and get out again every time you want to use it. Having said that, I reckon it has more than paid for its keep since we've had it.

This doesn't grind the coffee finely enough for espresso. Even on its finest setting, the grounds are still quite coarse; making a weak drink. I see other reviewers mentioning that it's less messy than others. I have found completely the opposite- when you remove the plastic bin after grinding, it leaves a mess on the surface. The rubber feet keep falling out as well- no matter how much I push them back in. I'm returning it as I like to enjoy my coffee without the faff!

Great ma hine to use. Grinds well and easy to clean.

A frustrating machine. Grinds well but incredibly loud and the selector for grinding time is far too sensitive, move it a fraction and you'll get a different amount of coffee. Fine for £50 but wouldn't pay any more than this.