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Customer
Reviews
Customer Review
#1
"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."
- Actual review from
Amazon.com
Customer Review #2
"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."
- Actual review from Amazon.com
Customer Review #3
"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."
- Actual review from Amazon.com
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