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Gourmet Coffee Grinder (109) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Universal Trading, Inc.
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $36.99
Buy New: $31.95
You Save: $5.04 (14%)
New (11) from $31.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 98695
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
MPN: 109
Model: 109
UPC: 040329001098
EAN: 0040329001098
ASIN: B000HM8G7K
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Old fashion manual grinder | | • | Grinds coffee beans, nuts, spices, grains and other beans | | • | Adjustable steel burrs | | • | Grinds coarse to very fine | | • | Covered hopper holds enough beans for 10 cups |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Old fashion manual grinder. Grinds coffee beans, nuts, spices, grains and other beans. Adjustable steel burrs. Grinds coarse to very fine. Covered hopper holds enough beans for 10 cups. Durable cast iron with solid wood base and drawer. Boxed. Made in Chi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 SAVE YOUR MONEY IF YOU WANT A GRINDER, but it's pretty November 21, 2008
Sadly this was ordered and delivered to me by a friend with good intentions. After arriving broken, it was glued with various glues so it would work. When my emergency supply of coffee ran out I tried to use it. TRIED to use it. Every other review with 1 star or less is true times ten -- after sitting on my shelf for over 2 years it still has an 'off' smell, and that's with some French-Italian roast coffee in it. I love coffee and I grind most of my seed spices fresh -- this is good for none of these purposes, Perhaps it works for a French Press, but I found while waiting for a real coffee grinder that a mortar and pestle worked very well as a pre-grinder, and when I first pre-ground and then put the coffee in this grinder it STILL let half beans fall through, so I ended up using one of my extra 'coffee' type grinders I use for other spices, and was one I use when power goes out for more than a week, or when camping, I could make coffee, but with this unit even pre-ground beans don't come out fine enough for anything but 'cowboy' coffee -- just boil it long enough and add the egg and it will work -- Right now it looks very nice on the top shelf of my book shelf. after two days, I broke down and bought a Black and Decker blade grinder at my local hardware store, and then bought a real conical grinder so I could switch easily back and forth between a medium grind a friend likes for normal drip, and a very fine grind that another friend likes for Italian pot espresso, and a Turkish grind that I love either as Turkish coffee or in my Melita drip cone. Like I said, this is a very pretty grinder, but should NEVER be mistaken for one -- it is decorative once you fix it. My friend had he same experience with the seller as others but gave up after several e-mails and three phone calls. She thinks it looks pretty too. But is sorry for thinking it was a 'real' 'miniature' working antiquie grinder that would be fun to use. If this were e-bay they would be off this list. If they said it was decorative and left it at that, then it WOULD be very pretty to look at if you did a good job of repairing it, and if they packed it better, you might not even need to repair it! I would even accept 'emergency manual coffee grinder for cowboy coffee' as being true. There is NOTHING 'Gourmet' about this item except the coffee I put in it-- and it was just peets coffee, hardly 'gourmet', just very good coffee for everyday use. Well OK maybe peets IS gourmet, but any way, buy this at your own risk -- I was tempted, my friend gave into temptation, and I started several days in some of the worst moods of my life. Two of these would make nice book ends. I work with metal as a hobby as an engraver and VERY basic gun smith, so I know how to adjust metal pieces, and burrs are generally a special metal shape, I'm not sure I would call what this has 'burrs', but they SEEM to function in that fashion, just not very well. The more I think about it, after a trip to the kitchen and the more I think about this two of these would make a VERY handsome set of book ends. I hate to write bad reviews, but I'm sorry I can't give zero stars.
Junk September 30, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If this "grinder" was ten bucks, it would be okay as a decorative item, because it's cute. If it doesn't arrive broken, like mine did. But it's so poorly designed and constructed that it's useless for the intended purpose. Actually, I think the intended purpose was to separate unsuspecting consumers from their money. The perpetrators never answered multiple e-mails. Save your money.
 MANUAL GOURMET COFFE GRINDER BY UNIVERSAL April 6, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I found the item to be as expected. Very workable and nicely manufactured. My only complaint is with the seller. Item was shipped very poorly packaged and arrived with broken hinge on the hopper lid.
 Works good for a french press grind March 27, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is not a Zassenhaus grinder it is a cheap in-exensive grinder that will work for a french press. That is what I wanted. I did not want to pay $100+ for a grinder. This works just fine for me. But I am not switching around grinds, if you are looking to switch from coarse to fine easily this is not the coffee grinder for you.
poor quality grinder March 27, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
When the box was opened a strong lacquer odor was present and the grinder had to be aired out for several days. The grinder is crudely constructed and therefore, crudely grinds beans. The finest grind that could be obtained was course with some half and even whole beans falling through. Multiple telephone and email messages were not answered by the vendor/supplier.
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