Capresso - Infinity Conical Burr

I use the same one. Worth every penny.

Neither of these are *enthusiast's* equipment, and won't do a stellar job of making coffee. I imagine you would get acceptable coffee from this setup, but it probably won't be as good as you were getting from the Chemex. You'll get what you pay for from the Cuisinart brewer: I would expect poor temperature control, and uneven wetting of the grounds. Hoffmann did [a video on cheap drip machines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ga8SRhRrE), what to expect, and potentially how to hack them, if you care for a perspective on this. The Braun Multiserve Plus is a drip machine that people on this sub like, currently on sale at Target for $130. I don't think you're going to do any better than your choice on a strict budget. The Capresso grinder is on par with the base Encore in my opinion. It's a decent choice, and a good match for either of these drip machines.

Ok the long game. Go for the $100 grinder like Capresso, which will get you espresso grind. Use it and make your parents their favorite drinks until they are hooked. Then ask for the nice expensive grinder.

This one. https://www.amazon.com/Capresso-560-04-Infinity-Conical-Grinder/dp/B001QTVXCS It does Turkish fine.

I have the $99 Capresso from Costco and it has been great. It gets a little staticky with certain types of coffee but you can do a bunch at once with no issues. [https://www.costco.com/capresso-metal-die-cast-housing-conical-burr-coffee-grinder.product.11378793.html](https://www.costco.com/capresso-metal-die-cast-housing-conical-burr-coffee-grinder.product.11378793.html)

I have the same one. It's 14 years old. But it's not going to be fast for 2 lbs.

Here’s my journey over the last 8 or so months. tl;dr I’m fine hand-grinding up to 120 g a day for pour-over/immersion or, say, up to 60 g a day if espresso-ish fine. I’ve had an old but reliable Capresso electric conical grinder for some 12+ years. When traveling, however, I only had a blade grinder. After years of hacking it Hoffmann-style (by pulsing and shaking it), I finally got annoyed into buying a hand-grinder, the terrible Hario Mini-Mill Plus, last spring. (I couldn’t get anything better where I was traveling on short notice.) Even that POS, however, immediately elevated my brews from what the most carefully hacked blade grinder could accomplish. And it was reasonably easy to grind caffeinated medium-roast beans. Light roasts and medium decaf, however, were a pain. Still, I struggled through all summer. Back home, I got a Timemore C3 ESP Pro, because I wanted to step up the grind from my trusted old Capresso. And I’ve been using the C3 daily since. While it’s still only considered an entry-to-mid-level grinder by many, the build quality is excellent, and it just chews through any and all beans (esp. compared to the Mini-Mill.) I’ve not gotten tired of grinding several 22- to 24-gram medium-grind doses (for my V60 and Oxo Rapid Brewer) back to back to back or even two 48-gram doses back to back for two 800 ml French presses. The C3 Pro holds just about 25 g of beans, so you’ll have to refill it once for a 48-gram dose, but that’s not really a hassle for me. I’m mulling upgrading the C3, but only to another hand grinder. While my wife and I drink a fair amount of coffee throughout the day, I don’t want to have to deal with the maintenance and calibration issues affordable electric grinders with good grind profiles come with.

Yeah, I wouldn’t get the Infinity now. My grinder’s model number is 565, which I suppose is the same grinder, with only cosmetic differences. (Mine has a mirror finish.) I got it at a closing sale of a fancy kitchen store, where it was something like 80% off it’s over $200 sticker price. It grinds well enough for the batch brewer we still use occasionally, I suppose, but you can’t really adjust the grind size as you’d expect from modern grinders. The only way to adjust is to move the hopper. There’s a rectangular extension on the bottom of the hopper (which has broken off into a curved shape on mine, which doesn’t change its function, however, see pic #1) which will move the grind size adjustment. The clicks, however, are much too far apart. One click on mine is the difference between the lowest and highest marks in the “Fine” range, e.g. (see pics #2 and #3), and the hopper and therefore grind setting may drift during grinding. Another gripe: the inside of the hopper is impossible to clean. I’ve only ever use single dosing, but since you have to use the hopper, there’s still some buildup there you can’t really get to. Retention is another issue. I have to violently pull out the collection chamber several times to make grounds go down from the grind chamber into the collection area (and then brush it out manually.) I also have to brush out the grind chamber every time. \* \* \* As for hand-grinding: No, I haven’t gotten tired of it. It’d even say using and cleaning the C3 is a joy. Definitely compared to the Mini-Mill, but even to the Capresso, I’d say. By the time I get the Capresso cleaned out and cleaned, I’m done with the C3. https://preview.redd.it/9i8c1dgw15eg1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42d471211a38bb89a2023f1b49715b87f67b4819 (It appears I can only attach one pic at a time, so look for #2 and #3 in follow-up comments.)

You are going to spend either 565 or 100? It seems like a very broad range. I owned a Capresso 99 dollar grinder (infinity??) for a few years. It was my first electric grinder, and before I went all in. Depending on where you are in your journey and how you approach hobbies, the 99 dollar one could be a fine place to start. If you love the hobby, you will end up buying something else. There is no buy once, cry once in the consumer space. Even nice shit doesn’t last.

Oh! It's a capresso infinity burr grinder? Nothing exceptional but it gets the job done! Family members got it as a wedding gift years ago and never ended up using it and then offered it to me when I was newer on my coffee journey 😂

I used the capresso infinity as my first burr grinder and it’s ok, but I think you’d want to upgrade again sooner than you’d wish. If I had to do it over again I would rather have gotten a $100 hand grinder that I would’ve probably kept all these years instead of the capresso that I quickly wanted to upgrade from.

cosigned, it's got a much more pleasant sound than other grinders. not quieter, necessarily, but more pleasant.