Bodum - Bistro Electric Burr Grinder

I started with a Bodum burr grinder. Worked well for my needs. Luckily i stumbled across an Encore on facebook marketplace for $60. Clean, well maintained. The guy I bought it off of chatted about coffee for almost an hour when I picked it up. Dude was meticulous. Didn’t keep beans in the hopper, weighed and ground daily. Cleaned monthly Check out marketplace. I’m certain you can find a great grinder significantly cheaper than new. Run a couple cups of rice through it to clean it, brush out as much as you can. The first grind after cleaning is sacrificial Edit-werds r hard

That was my first grinder, does the job. Today I’d replace it with a Baratza Encore ESP or something from Fellow as the next step up.

I bought the Bodum as well as an “upgrade” to the $50 department store one I started with and it broke on me within a few months. Ended up getting the Fellow Opus as I’d received a Breville Bambino as a gift so wanted something that could do espresso too. The opus has a weird system for fine grind adjustment, but it’s been working well for me for almost 2 years now of daily use for espresso, Areopress and chemex. I’d recommend it.

I’ve had the exact Bodum grinder from the image and I’ve used it for maybe half a year before also looking for a different solution. It was loud, produced fines like nothing else I’ve tried, and static was atrocious. The timer was indeed a terrible function, and with larger batches it started heating up quite a bit. Coffee also tasted mediocre, if I look back at it. I used it for v60s and French press, and with the latter I always had muck in my final cup, whatever I tried. With 70-80 grams doses I can’t recommend the DF54 enough. I’ve debated quite a few before I settled on the DF54, but what sells it for me is how quick it grinds for filter. To be fair, I’ve used my Kingrinder K4 for about a year and had to grind two batches of 30g back to back, so any electric grinder is a big upgrade, but with the speed, taste and (for me) looks, the DF54 is unbeatable for me.

I use a Bodum grinder that I got at Target - I'm pretty sure it was like 35 USD