KRUPS 8000035978 GX5000 Professional Electric Coffee Burr Grinder with Grind Size and Cup Selection, 7-Ounce, Black

i chose burr version over blade version based on reviews and am happy with my choice. been 10 days and it works perfectly so far for my needs which is for auto-drip grounds but, finer since our bunn coffee maker is super fast.. Not too loud for 2 cps at a time and pretty quick at grounding beans. I honestly however have a hard time telling the difference between setting 4 thru 2.5 ground size and thought it was not working right at first but, i sure could taste the slight differences between each mug of coffee i made from the different settings.. yet, I can't seem to get my coffee beans to taste like its grounded version that i love but, not blaming grinder just yet since i bought my coffee beans from here and thinking they are not as fresh as they could be.update: i have grown to hate this burr grinder! total mess everytime you 'try' to clean residue grounds out of machine areas, quite impossible to get to stuck packed grounds behind the shute part that i can see but can't get to well enough to rid of it. can't remove second burr to clean so it has packed grounds under it and in screw holes. the burr you can remove has packed in grounds in screw holes too and you are not suppose to wash these but, have no choice for it is the only way to get crap stuck in screw head & hole area and even than you can't get it totally clean.. first 2 weeks coffee was great (after i got a fresher bag of coffee beans) but, has not tasted right after that. i started making a week worth of grounds and cleaning machine after every use because coffee would taste nasty the next day if i grounded beans every morning and didn't troughly clean machine out afterwards. that helped some and coffee was better but, still had that off note to it, which i blame on old oily grounds being stuck in the burr and shute area...quite honestly even if this was not a pain to clean as best as you can, i would of still grew to hate it! freaking coffee grounds constantly jumping out at you and all over the counter from simply opening lid off the container it comes with gets old and you cannot use any other kind because of where the shute is. given i used oilier beans, i would hate to see what mess drier beans would do! i just do not see why these grinder makers can not use anti-static plastic containers to cut this mess down!! been 3mths and done packed this pain in my behind burr grinder up and took it to salvation army and was going to replace it with a glass container grinder but, bought a mess free lido 3 instead that i can actually use every morning without having to take everything apart to clean afterwards!! pricey manual burr but, so worth the mess free and will last for life, highly recommend one and it is easy to use without much effort even with us weakling!!

I've ground about 20lbs of beans so far and find this unit pleasantly surprising. I started by setting it to a more fine position expecting it to beat up the beans more than the consistent grind you get out of commercially sourced coffee grounds. Much to my surprise this unit provided excellent consistency in the grind but also was much finer than I needed for my Mr. Coffee machine. I backed it off several numbers and found consistent bean grind with an excellent yield in the coffee and right at the edge of leaving any thing in the pot after brewing. I using the smaller units and grinding by how it looks I usually got a small residue in the bottom of the pot but an excellent yield with good tasting coffee. With this Krups unit I get the coffee yield but without the residue in the pot.On the down side there is a small amount of grind that spills out when you remove the container, the lid tends to have a build up inside the edge, and some fine particles do stick to the insides of the container. I found a small soft brush a little bigger than the one they send solves most of this. This thing is noisy which is to be expected but it is doing a job for you so its not an issue. I usually grind a couple pounds of beans which go in several sealed containers lasting a week or more each with a different flavor/roast to which this unit seems to work perfectly for.

This grinder is easy to use and “good enough” (definitely great if not the best for the money). However, if you look at the picture I am posting, you will see the main issue with it - it produces a “mountain” of uneven grinds at the opening. The upside is you can pretty easily throw that out.Where the grinds fly into the container, it creates a “mountain” of extremely fine grind, no matter what setting you have. I have shown what coarse for a french press produces. You can see coarse in the container and the super fine grind that looks almost stuck together. Again, the upside is that the “mountain” is always somehow naturally isolated, and so you can open the container and throw it out.The good things: easy to use - love the big fromt button with an easy output/time wheel around it (no, this is not grind size, thats on the side) and the easy push button again to override output. This is probably the easiest/best you will get on a sun $100 grinder.The grinds container and bean hopper are relatively easy to clean. The biggest annoyance there is that you need to unplug the machine. Wish it had a removable base like water kettles.Overall, with some small annoyances, for the price point you really cannot do better than this.