Hand Coffee Grinders

Hand Coffee Grinders
Executive Summary About Hand Coffee Grinders By K. Braun

A hand coffee grinder is one of the most attractive and elegant choices for the true aficionado although many types of coffee mills on the market today.

Most hand coffee grinders only take a minute or two grind enough coffee for six cups of filter drip grind. It takes longer to grind coffee finer than this. The grind is even and excellent for stovetop coffee makers, filtered coffee or for French press. A well made hand coffee grinder can even prepare beans for Turkish coffee or espresso.

Perhaps the basic box mill is most common type of hand coffee grinders. The Model is simple like a cube with a handle on top. The beans go into a small door and feed into the hopper. An average box mill's drawer holds enough beans to make six cups of coffee. Most of the mechanism is usually made with stainless steel.

The Turkish coffee mill is another option for a hand coffee grinder, which is cylindrical and decorated on the outside. It grinds coffee powder fine for making Turkish coffee, in which the grounds are never filtered and end up in the drink Turkish coffee grinders are often made of decorated brass and are very attractive and also can be used as decorative pepper or spice mills.

Hand coffee grinders are great, but if you want more than a personal serving or two a day, you might be better off with an electric burr coffee grinder.