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Friends who brew coffee at home during their leisure time should have a manual coffee grinder at hand. If you're a barista, someone who has done considerable research on coffee, or a coffee enthusiast, you might even have an electric coffee grinder at home to handle the heavy lifting! Coffee grinders come in many varieties - manual and electric, stainless steel and wooden box-style, and even electric coffee grinders have different blade types: flat burrs, conical burrs, or ghost tooth burrs. Brands like Hario, Kalita, Little Pegasus, Flying Eagle, DeLonghi, and more professional ones like Mazzer, Mahlkönig, etc. - some are familiar, others less so. From the perspective of home brewing users, this article will briefly compare manual and electric coffee grinders, hoping to help everyone better understand their needs when choosing a coffee grinder.

Manual VS Electric

In terms of portability and size, manual grinders naturally win over electric ones. Currently, HARIO produces a manual coffee grinder called the Mini Mill, which stands only 18 centimeters tall - just 3 centimeters taller than a ruler! The width of the middle funnel and coffee grounds collection area is only 5 centimeters - truly mini. In contrast, household electric coffee grinders, even the smaller models, weigh at least about 1 kilogram, and even the most compact ones take up considerable space. Therefore, many friends who enjoy brewing coffee might not necessarily bring home an electrical appliance, instead opting first for a more portable tool - a manual coffee grinder.

Speed

In terms of speed, electric grinders should have the upper hand! Manual coffee grinders have one disadvantage - they can be quite tiring to operate! Haha! Especially for those who love light-roast coffee and enjoy pour-over brewing, have you noticed that using a manual grinder often requires significant effort and time, feeling that the coffee beans are very hard and difficult to grind? The lighter the roast level of coffee beans, the higher their hardness, making them more difficult to grind and requiring more time. Electric coffee grinders rarely have this problem because their power comes from electricity, not human hands, and the blades handle coffee beans with ease, without the hardness issue, making them much faster than manual grinders. Of course, the blades inside any grinder will wear with use - this is a situation that occurs regardless of whether it's manual or electric.

Consistency

Regarding the consistency of coffee grounds, what do you think - are manual or electric grinders superior? First, I want to ask everyone a question: can manual grinders actually produce coffee grounds as fine as espresso? Many people have the misconception that grounds from manual grinders are coarser and lack sufficient fineness. Actually, this isn't quite accurate. Think about it - when cooking, we often use pepper. Have you used a manual pepper grinder? That grinder operates somewhat similarly to a manual coffee grinder, and both have coarse-to-fine adjustment settings, so producing fine powder is entirely achievable. But then there's a problem: coffee beans are much larger than peppercorns - how can such large coffee beans be ground into powder as fine as pepper powder? This brings us to the consistency we need to discuss.

Manual grinders, as the name suggests, rely primarily on human hands as the first energy source during the grinding process. To produce fine coffee grounds, the distance between the grinding burrs needs to be adjusted to be minimal, which increases the resistance we encounter during grinding. To achieve uniform and consistent grinding, brute force isn't the most important factor - rather, the force and frequency used must be consistent to achieve high uniformity. However, when facing significant resistance, maintaining this consistency becomes more challenging. In contrast, electric grinders use electricity as their primary energy source during grinding, providing relatively stable power with consistent force and frequency, resulting in more uniform and consistent coffee grounds.

Aesthetics

Whether something is beautiful has always been subjective. To me, both manual and electric grinders have their own beauty: manual grinders come in various sizes, shapes, and materials, and even if used only occasionally, when placed in a corner of the cabinet when not in use, they seem alive, glowing with their own light; while electric grinders combine outstanding functionality with stylish, streamlined designs that attract even laypeople with their professionalism and appearance.

●Recommended Home Coffee Bean Brands

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