Having a homemade coffee grinder can allow you to make better coffee every time. If you make a cup that doesn't satisfy, you have the tool to fix it. The method of refining coffee over time simply requires that you test the coffee with a little concentration and then make a small adjustment to the size of the grind to use it the next time you prepare it. Cleaning the coffee maker regularly and thoroughly will help the machine last longer and make the coffee taste better.
The consistency of the grind is so important to Kyle Ramage, an award-winning coffee roaster and barista (who has also worked with a professional grinder manufacturer), that he recommends buying ground coffee on demand from a high-quality source instead of using a blade or grinder with faulty burrs. Flat sets were mainly found in commercial machines (flat cutter sets usually cost more and tend to pick up coffee among its burrs; coffee then falls everywhere, something that is easier to miss in a coffee shop). The Mignon is not a machine for someone who is just drinking coffee or who only prepares a giant mug of coffee for their office every morning. The C2 is the most affordable grinder from the coffee equipment company Timemore, whose manual grinders are highly appreciated among coffee experts.
After years of testing, we have consistently discovered that even the occasional coffee drinker can tell the difference in taste between poorly ground coffee and properly ground coffee. Like Mignon, it can produce great-tasting drip coffee, French press and cold coffee. Its hopper doesn't hold enough coffee to prepare coffee for more than two people at a time and it has an even smaller range of grind sizes, especially in the finer half of the sphere. Many coffee lovers are willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on a machine, since they know it will grind the coffee perfectly.
OXO also states that it uses a ground steel container that hits a ground steel tab to help reduce static buildup in ground coffee, which is a problem in most coffee grinders. It also includes a lot of cool features that can make grinding coffee on demand more convenient, such as a timer and an extra large hopper that holds an entire 12-ounce bag of coffee and can be easily removed even when full of beans.
