I have read the other reviews and I must say that I don't want to make an Espresso or some French Grind. I am from Texas and we ain't crazy about French anything!! I do love a good cup of Eight O' Clock coffee in the morning. I grind up some of that and slap it into my Bunn coffee maker and presto, the best cup of coffee in the world. I don't really make an issue of the cleanup 'cause if your too stupid to set the grinder in the sink and then tap it until all the grinds come off the machine you shouldn't own one anyway! Just a wipe down with a wet cloth and your done. This grinder is consistent and if you need a part you just go to the web site and order it. Dirt cheap! If you want a fancy $200.00 grinder then get one but this one is simple and you ain't got to be an genius to operate the thing.

Despite the reviews, I bought this in January 2008. I grind about 2 pounds a month--freshly roasted Kona beans. I bought it because the grower in Kona had disparaged the "whirlybird" Krups chopper I'd used for 10 years. The Krups grinder worked OK at first. Then it began being harder and harder to start...lots of fiddling with the lid and parts. Today, 6 months after we ordered ot, it stopped working altogether. If I can find the warranty info I might return it. Ground the rest of the pound with my trusty whirlybird chopper. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!

I was able to get a decent grind for my cone-filter machine from this unit, but trying to obtain a coarser grind for French press brewing proved impossible. I called Krups' product support line, who confirmed the range of grind adjustment was very limited. Hmmmm... Krups are aware of this limitation yet continue to market the product as being suitable for a wide range of brewing methods - I invite anyone who shares my frustration with this to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

Like many others, I had to tap or shake the unit often to encourage all the beans to fall into the grinding mechanism. Finely-ground coffee always caked up around the exit port, so I was frequently tapping or banging to try to shake that loose as well.

My unit stopped working altogether last week, about 14 months after I bought it. I suspect the interlock switch that senses whether the hopper lid is in place is kaput. (Maybe all that tapping and banging wasn't very good for the machine?) I won't be taking or sending it anywhere for service, nor replacing it with the same model. I'd try to fix it but I can't figure out how to get the darned case open.

Back to the KitchenAid blade grinder for now. It works.

This grinder is $50.00 worth of junk. The push button used to start the grinder fell down inside the machine after less than 12 months of use. Looks like that happened to someone else as well. The beans do not fall into the grinder like they should and you have to stand by and shake it periodically. Bed Bath and Beyond no longer carries this grinder...I wonder why.

This is a terrible grinder, or at least the one they shipped to me is. From day one I noticed that it would not grind the beans in a continuous manner; the beans wouldn't fall down into the grinding area so it would be grinding air even though there were plenty of beans in there. You can get around that by shaking the grinder gently while it is grinding. But then it stopped working altogether, then it worked one more time and now it comes on sometimes when you push the button but does not grind. The grinding mechanism is 100% plastic, I expected it to be metal.

I also have a coffee maker from Krups that has a broken LED display so you cannot set the automatic timer, and the water meter was broken on that from day one. The grinder was a gift but I would NEVER purchase another Krups product.

It is not worth spending the money on something you have to send to the landfill after 25 uses.

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