Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6127 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Tefal
• Model: 203-42
• Released on: 2003-04-10
• Dimensions: 6.75" h x 3.00" w x 3.50" l, 1.00 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Blade or Burr - capturing Aroma...

If roasting coffee beans is an art, then turning them into perfect ground coffee is a science. If the grind is too coarse the coffee will brew too slowly, and flavours will not fully develop, if it's too fine the coffee will lack aroma and tend towards bitterness. Too much grinding is as bad as too little for perfect coffee only 'just right' will do. Different coffee machines work best with different grind sizes so what works well in a cafetiere will produce dreadful coffee in an espresso machine. Coffee can be ground with either a blade (chopped) or a burr (crushed).

Blade grinders chop and re-chop each bean turning them into thousands of unevenly sized coffee fragments. The longer you chop the finer the blend becomes, but no matter how careful you are some of the coffee will be over ground and some will be under ground: so the coffee will never be as good as the beans you started with.

Coffee Beans: All of today's coffee beans come from just two varieties of coffee plant; Robusta and Arabica - the mix giving the quality, flavour and strength (caffeine content) of the coffee. the beans are taken and roasted, developing the flavour and aroma of the coffee - the longer they are roasted, the darker and more aromatic the beans become.

Krups for the true coffee lover - Krups began its journey towards perfect coffee back in 1846 as 'a brand dedicated to precision and technical perfection'. These high ideals were not enough for Robert Krups the founder, who insisted this would not be some future objective but a 'firm promise'. The company's first products immediately won widespread admiration for their quality, far sighted design and technical refinement.

In 1961 Krups turned its attention to making the best electric coffee grinder, revolutionising the quality of home ground coffee. Krups now makes arguably the best range of Espresso machines in the world from modest easy to use machines for novices, to fully automatic bean to cup machines for coffee connoisseurs.

Customer Reviews

VERY FAST GRINDING OF SMALL QUANTITIES
Gosh! How quickly do you want to grind coffee beans? This little gizzmo whizzes up coarse in 8 seconds, medium in 12 & fine in 16 seconds. The only thing is that you, as the operator, have to judge how long to hold down the press-button switch but once you've mastered that plus watching progress through the transparent cover, it literally only takes seconds to produce enough grounds for "10" cups as marked on my drip coffee maker or, if you like to drink from big mugs like me, enough for 4 mugs.

Suggest new users first count to 10 before letting go of the button and then vary their count according to taste.

Would be 5 stars but the simple push-button switch is not idiot proof. Nevertheless, great value!

Spice whirl.
Although this is classed as a coffee mill, it is also one of the best ways to grind seeds and spices. The blades are dull and set very low - ideal for milling small amounts of dried ingredients. It's a compact unit, and its simple action means that (in my experience) it is also very reliable. Having said all of that, the continual chopping action (and resultant increase in temperature) can affect the final quality of ground coffee - people looking to get the best out of their beans might be better to consider spending a bit more money on a burr mill.

Simply perfect coffee
I only have one cup of coffee a day - but it has to be the best. I enjoy the ritual of trying to make the perfect cup. This grinder makes that goal consistently achievable.

It is small, neat, attractive (mine is black), well designed, simple to the point of basic - and effective. I use a stove top espresso maker, and this grinds beautifully fine, which makes the espresso machine really have to work to force through the coffee. The result is strong, smooth coffee - perfect to add milk to, or to have black. Most importantly, I now get better cups of coffee than before I owned it.

A really pleasing product.