Choosing a coffee grinder starts with how you make your coffee and where you want to use it. A small manual grinder, a cordless rechargeable model and a blade grinder offer different ways to prepare beans.
Delacey’s range includes Avanti and Breville options. Here’s what to consider before you choose.
Manual grinding: compact and adjustable
The Avanti Manual Coffee Grinder uses a ceramic burr and offers 40 grind settings through an external adjustment ring. Its bean capacity is 20–30g, making it an option for smaller batches.
A manual grinder doesn’t need charging or a power point, which can suit travel or a simple home setup. The tradeoff is the effort and time needed to turn it by hand.
A setting suited to your brewer gives you somewhere to begin; the coffee you’re using and the result in the cup help guide adjustments. The number of settings is useful, but it doesn’t replace matching the grind to your brewing method.
Rechargeable grinding: less effort, without a cord
The Avanti Apex Portable Rechargeable Coffee Grinder has seven grind settings, a 30g bean capacity and USB-C charging. It stops automatically when grinding is complete.
This can suit someone who wants a compact grinder for home, the office or travel without hand grinding every batch. If you tend to make coffee in a rush, it helps to have a regular charging spot so the grinder is ready when you are.
Avanti’s settings range from fine to coarse. For espresso, your particular machine and basket matter; the ability to produce a fine grind doesn’t mean every grinder will suit every espresso setup.
A blade grinder for coffee and spices
The Breville Coffee and Spice Grinder uses a stainless steel blade and has a removable grinding bowl. It’s designed for coffee beans, herbs and whole spices.
With this style of grinder, pulsing time influences the texture rather than selecting a numbered burr setting. It’s an option when you want a compact appliance for more than one ingredient.
A clean, dry bowl helps keep flavours separate, especially when you’re moving from strongly flavoured spices back to coffee.
What should I change if my coffee tastes sour or bitter?
The useful thing about adjustable grinding is being able to change the result in the cup. Thin, sour coffee can indicate too little extraction; an overly bitter result can indicate too much. These are clues, not a diagnosis on their own: the beans, dose, water and brewing method also matter.
It’s easier to judge a small grind adjustment when the beans, dose and brewing method stay the same. Finer grinding generally encourages more extraction; coarser grinding reduces it. Tasting between changes helps you work out which adjustment made a difference. With the adjustable Avanti grinders, this gives the settings a purpose instead of choosing a number at random. A blade grinder’s run time is not equivalent to a repeatable numbered grind setting.
Further reading: Breville’s explanation of coffee extraction.
Which grinder suits your coffee routine?
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