Coffee-Makers and Espresso Machines

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Coffee beans begin to oxidize and deteriorate after roasting (which is why they are shipped from their point of origin "green" and roasted more locally.) For a true gourmet coffee experience, consider roasting your own beans. This not only gives you the freshest grounds possible, but gives you control over the temperature and degree of roasting which affects the all-important volatile oils that give coffee its flavor.

The knurled surfaces of the conical burrs in these grinders grip the surfaces of the bean and shred the vegetable matter with little damage to its cellular structure. Thus, they produce superior grounds with little or no dust to cause over-extraction and bitterness in brewing. If you're going the extra mile to use freshly ground beans, don't settle for an inferior blade "grinder."

Blade "grinders" are really bean choppers, randomly slicing whatever comes before their whirling blades, and producing a lot of heat and dust. They provide little or no control over the "coarseness" or "fineness" of the grind, and are really quite inferior to burr grinders. If you care enough about high-quality coffee to use fresh-ground beans, it is unlikely that you will be happy with one of these.