HARIO"Mini-Slim Plus" Ceramic Coffee Mill

Excelente producto, me llego intacto y todavia lo uso

Good Enough and Quick -- As the song says, "There, I said it again." Grinding coffee with this thing or anything like it is a lot of work, but it feels good. I would never rely on this for daily grinding of more than a cup or two at a time. I can't imagine women would love this thing. Setting it down on the counter is no way to go. I'm no weakling, but this thing is not the easiest to hold on to when you're really cranking on it. I choose to hold it so the bottom edge is resting firmly against my sternum near my solar plexus, and then hold onto its waisted cylindrical shape as high as I can -- up near the handle -- don't cut or scratch yourself with the handle! I wish I could put it in a bench vise and really go to town with it -- yah, sure, you betcha! Anyway, it does a nice job, it adjusts quite nicely, and it is a handsome and durable unit. I think someone is making a good profit at the price it seems to sell, but evidently the demand is there, as they seem to leap off the retailers' shelves briskly, so the market is telling you the value is there vs alternatives. If you're in early times and just starting to dip your foot into grinding, go ahead and get this one. Later, once you're addicted to good coffee, you can always buy a good electric burr grinder that will take you through hell and back. But this little Hario you should always keep for small experimental tasks, and for travel, so I think it is an excellent choice. Just know what you're getting into with these small hand grinders -- they all take the same effort and time to grind up (to fracture predictably and fairly uniformly) these surprisingly hard, tough roasted coffee beans. This Hario is a good one, possibly the standard of the small, ceramic burr hand grinders. I'd buy it again, but only if I lost this one or wore it out (unlikely), as i certainly don't need two . . . yet, that I can think of . . . wait, one in each car, in each camping pack? Hmmm . . . Cheers!

Builds muscles!

Ticked off a lot of the marks I was looking for:1. Good materials (the plastic bits feel quite sturdy, not your standard cheap plastic)2. Easy to take apart and maintain/clean3. Gives relatively consistent grinds to brew a decent cup of coffee4. Grinds 25g in a manageable amount of time (a few minutes)5. Won't wake up the whole house.The bonus is that it's slim and easy to travel with, although that wasn't one of my original intentions for purchasing this product. The grinds are more consistent that what you'd get from a blade grinder (even accounting for tricks like shaking the blade grinder periodically to re-distribute the bean chunks), although it takes a little bit of elbow grease. I work an office job and definitely don't mind a little bit of a workout. In terms of doing a set of burpees or something of similar intensity, grinding some coffee beans with this is not nearly as bad. It won't be able to get you all of the notes labeled on your specialty coffee, but the taste of the coffee is better than your average blade-ground brew (all other variables like beans and brew method held constant). Some tricks I've learned:1) To help stabilize the outer ceramic burr, I put some rubber bands around it to keep it in place. It helped the grind consistency a lot, although you will still get some fines and some bigger chunks. It's not going to be on par with a good electric burr grinder that costs over $100.2) If you have shrimpy arms like me and can't hold the mill steady while grinding with just your hands alone, sit down and place it between your legs to hold it still while grinding. The work becomes a lot easier and the grinds will be more consistent without that extra motion from trying to keep it still with just your hands.3) Keep in mind that lighter roasts will be a bit harder to grind.Overall, considering the price of burr grinders in general, this is a good value, and even if I decide to upgrade to an electric burr grinder at some point in the future, I'll still have this around for the days when a manual grinder is necessary.

Coming from having used a blade grinder for the past 2 years, I can say this grinder is miles better. Granted it does take some arm work to grind your beans but it makes your coffee taste so much better. I haven't traveled with it, but I can't imagine it being a hassle in really any way. I would recommend you use some tape to tighten up the outer burr as it does have wiggle room which will in turn allow vastly different particle sizes to be ground as a result.The hopper can fit 30g in it, maybe 35g or so, and didn't have any issues with that much overflowing in the grinds catcher.I consistently grind 18g of coffee, and working at it pretty quickly it takes about a minute, a bit more if I stop from my muscles getting a workout.There is a bit of static electricity that comes from grinding, but not unmanageable, and the grinder I think does retain a good bit of grounds inside the grinder from grinding, so I'd give it a good couple shakes and taps to get the rest out after you finish grinding.Also I can't say this will give you the most consistent grind you've ever seen, but it's definitely not all over the place like a blade grinder.Hopefully this answers some questions that typically don't get answered, namely some of the questions I had when I was looking at getting this grinder.