Secura Electric Burr Coffee Grinder Mill, Adjustable Cup Size, 17 Fine to Coarse Grind Size Settings for Drip, Percolator, French Press and Turkish Coffee Makers, Black,12 cups

Works good for grinding generally anything. It’s designed as a coffee grinder so don’t be fooled by any other claims. I have ground a wide variety of herb and spices in it and my one complaint is due to its coffee based design.
It will not grind to a powder for some things, anything flat like a dried seed ect will pass through. If it could effectively grind everything It would be 5 stars.
Has resettable thermal overload. ( if it jams and shuts off wait 30 minutes and it resets) if grinding cinnamon or something large or woody I advise using a blender first to prevent jamming or overheating.

Gran calidad por el precio.

Update 3: The replacement they sent has been running strong for about a year now, so assuming I got a defective on before. Overall it’s a decent enough budget grinder.

Update2: I bought a second one, which died within a single week of use. The adjustments on this new one were fairly limited – but provided me with an acceptable course grind for my french press as well as a fine enough grind for a decent espresso. I was happy that I didn’t have to open it to adjust the grind size, but my mind is blown that after ~6 batches of 12 cup grinds it won’t even turn on.

Emailed customer service with proof, but the most recent product is 100% worthless. Reduced to 1 of 5 stars until I have solid proof that this isn’t a normal defect and I was simply unlucky.

Update: Purchased 4/19, motor finally gave out 10/30/21. We used this daily (often twice), and am very happy with how long it lasted. I’m updating from 3 star to 4 stars simply because I didn’t expect it to last a day past the 2 year warranty.

This is a solid 3 stars for a budget burr grinder (so far).

The main bad points:
The grinder does NOT adjust grind size out of box (but you can do this with a little surgery).
The timer is 100% useless.
Like most grinders, the container is plastic and static and causes some grinds to fly out.
If you don’t catch it when it runs out of grinds, the motors starts spinning way too fast. If I had to guess… allow this too happen for too long/too many times and the motor _will_ burn out (the longest time, with a full set of beans, makes this run for wayyyy too long). THE TIMER DOES NOT WORK.
Even after manual adjustment of the grind size, you can’t swap from espresso level fine to french press level coarse.

The good points:
It appears to be a very solid construction, and as long as used properly and not allowed to run w/o beans I believe this will be a long lasting durable grinder.
A consistent grind (once you adjust it to what you want to grind for).
At the price point you could buy one for espresso and one for french press and still come out ahead compared to many other grinders (that often have reviews stating the same problems as this grinder).

All in all I plan on keeping this grinder (2 stars or below is pretty much my return level). I’m not exactly impressed, but for a _budget_ grinder this guy is decent… just know what you’re getting into.

How to adjust the grind size:
1) Open the top lid and verify your grinder is unplugged.
2) Unlock and remove the center burr.
3) Unscrew the 3 screws in the bean holder, this will allow you to remove the top from the base. Careful, this is also where the circuit board is located and wires are attached to it.
4) Remove the adjustment wheel (the guy with the numbers you twirl from the outside). This wheel has 2 small plastic bits that prevent the wheel from doing 360 degree rotation.
5) You can now freely turn the grinder wheel (lefty loosey for larger grinds, righty tighty for finer grinds). Adjust the wheel to what you want then replace the wheel and top.

Notes:
You can remove the two plastic bits that block the adjustment wheel to get a larger range of grinds, but I still find it only goes from either espresso -> drip or from drip -> french press. There’s no way to get from espresso -> drip on this machine. I’d suggest just accepting that this will only grind to a single size, adjust to that size and live with it.
When replacing the top you don’t want to tighten the screws all the way or it will cinch the grinder and you won’t be able to adjust it at all. This isn’t a big deal unless you do surgery to remove the two plastic adjustment wheel blockers.
Adjusting the device was my own choice, and I likely voided my warranty in doing so. If you do this, don’t blame me if you break it and they don’t accept your return 😉

I used this coffee grinder just once for the sake of this review. I actually purchased it to be used exclusively for spices in the kitchen, mostly pepper, and It may replace my bowl and pestle for some other dry spices. I have become weary of using my hand-held grinder to grind one or more tablespoons of pepper when cooking. And I am supposing that I would not prefer to have pepper fragments in my coffee, nor coffee fragments in my pepper and other spices. And if the grind from this Secura happens to be inconsistent, it won’t matter much for spices. So, I purchased this second grinder.

The Secura is REALLY fast, albeit considerably noisier than my Capresso 560Infinity ($98.98). Is faster a good thing, or is it a problem? Some say faster affects coffee’s taste negatively, but I ran each sample in the picture through my French Press, and I was really unable to detect ANY difference in flavor. But I readily admit, that’s the opinion of just ONE person.

I really like being able to simply tap the on-off button when it’s finished grinding. Setting the grind size is really simple, using the dial on the left side. I made a mental note of the fact that turning either the grind size on the left to minimum OR neglecting to set the cup size won’t allow the machine to be turned on. And as far as mess is concerned, I think the ejection port in the back of the ground-coffee hopper, coupled with a lid on the hopper does a good job of reducing the “overspray” to a minimum.

The coffee I brewed from the Secura in my French Press MIGHT have had just a TINY BIT more sediment left in the bottom of the cup, but not enough to matter to me. Anyway, a bit more sediment seems to be intrinsic to wire mesh filters of any kind. I brewed both samples at a 16 to 1 ratio. Each tasted really good to me and virtually identical.

The cup estimator dial on the front seems silly to me BUT IT DOESN’T HURT ANYTHING. I guess some people might use the cup estimator on the front to grind their beans, but I do not know how that could be useful. Even if it is at all accurate and consistent, what coffee to water ratio do you personally prefer and for which type of brewing? It doesn’t make sense. And if you do not care about precision in your brewing, why are you buying a home grinder anyway? Use your kitchen scale to weigh your beans; keep the cup dial cranked all the way up, and grind your beans all at once each time you brew. Stand there for the few seconds it takes for grinding and tap the off button when grinding is finished.

Any complaints about messiness are unfounded from what I can see. Yes, there are a few specs that end up on the counter, but a minimal amount IMO. Anyway, wild grounds, driven by static electricity seems to be pretty consistently a part of the home-grinding adventure! Put a towel under it if you like. Or it DOES help if you stir 1 to 3 drops of water in with your beans before grinding. (NO MORE than that!) Or I suppose you can do your grinding outside, but it’s not worth it to me.

Will it last? IDUNO! Considering the price and just in case, at 71 years old, I spent money on my first-ever product warranty. $7.00 gives me 4 years. I purchased the extended warranty because I guessed I might not use it enough to adequately test it during the factory warranty period. It may very well have been $7.00 of foolishly wasted money, but it’s not a biggie either way. I grind coffee daily, but for spices this won’t see nearly that kind of use. After 4 years, for forty-two bucks and if I am still vertical, I won’t complain.

Es un equipo muy sencillo de usar, de manera domestica cumple con todo lo necesario para moler tu café al momento.