Burr Coffee Grinders

Our site will assist you with finding the best selection of burr coffee grinders.

Why Burr Coffee Grinders? Welcome to our site and we hope we can help you find the largest selection of the best burr coffee grinders for the lowest prices. But you may be wondering why the burr grinder and not the whirly blade type of grinder that is readily available in just about every discount store under the sun.

The truth of the matter is, you really should not use the blade-type grinders simply because they do an inferior job of grinding your coffee. In this case it is true, you do get what you pay for. So you save money by purchasing this type of grinder, but you lose out in the long run because you can't enjoy the full flavor benefits of your coffee.

What happens with these cheap grinders is they simply pulverize the beans, and if you let it go on long enough they will simply turn into powder. Not good! What you want is a nice, even, consistent grind, and this is what you will achieve with burr coffee grinders.

Here's the thing. No matter how you brew your coffee, whether you use a drip brewer, a vacuum brewer, a French press, or even a percolator (not recommended), each of these methods comes down to one thing: water is poured through ground coffee beans. If your coffee grounds are not consistent, i.e. if they have variable sizes and consistency such as grounds you would get from a blade grinder, it doesn't matter how you are brewing your coffee because the equipment is not going to be able to overcome the situation of having your beans ground incorrectly. Only coffee beans ground with burr coffee grinders can provide you with coffee of superb flavor.

But still, why do burr coffee grinders work better? They do because the burrs themselves are incrementally very adjustable and can produce much more consistent size grounds in the necessary sizes to accommodate whatever brewing method you employ. 

The word burr actually refers to the type of blades your grinder contains. Your simple blade machine has nothing more than a strip of metal that will spin and there are no adjustments to be made other than amount of time you press the button. Similar to a food processor. Burr coffee grinders use interlocking blades with several sharp edges that fit together similar to the teeth of gears in something like a watch. You achieve different grind sizes by adjusting the blades closer together or farther apart.

And why does it matter? Why are different sizes of coffee grounds needed? Depending on how long the coffee is going to be in contact with the water, you need to have a larger or smaller ground. French press, for example, uses a coarser grind generally since most people steep for about 4 minutes. A fine grind at 4 minutes would produce an over-extracted coffee. Believe me, we know this as this is our favored method to brew coffee. An espresso would take a very fine grind.

So use burr coffee grinders if you want the best flavor from your coffee.