Cheap Coffee Grinder That Works - Cooks
Coffee Grinders
My wife and I have been looking for a cheap coffee grinder that works, and it’s been a real challenge. We’ve tried many different types of cheap coffee grinders that one would buy at your average department store. We’ve tried cheap coffee grinders from Wal-Mart, JCPenney, Zellers, Kmart, Sears, etc.
These cheap coffee grinders never last long, or they just don’t work at all. Often you have to stand over the coffee grinder depressing a button, and it’s painfully slow. But even worse is the coffee grinders that are built into coffee makers.
Now you have a real problem, because the steam and the moisture inherent to the coffee maker causes the coffee grinder to gum up, and you end up taking apart the coffee grinder portion of the coffee maker and cleaning it thoroughly before you can use it again. Not only must you clean it after every use, it seems, before you reassemble the coffee grinder you must make sure every little part is perfectly dry. In short, a serious pain in the butt.
Now the good news. While shopping in the United States again, my wife tried yet another cheap coffee grinder, which she purchased at JCPenney. She had discovered that the only way to use a cheap coffee grinder is to make sure that it is a standalone unit (what ever you do don’t buy a cheap coffee grinder/maker due to the reasons described above).
This little coffee grinder is cheap, and believe it or not, it works. It’s never failed in the last four months of use. It has a timer built in so you can just leave the coffee grinder running until it’s made enough coffee for your chosen pot size. You can set the coffee grinder to make enough coffee for anywhere between 2 to 12 cups. You can just walk away and come back to see all of your coffee beans ground and ready.
We were pretty cynical by now and fully expected this grinder to last perhaps a week at the most. We were pleasantly surprised to see that it not only worked well, it kept on working. We just didn’t want to spend allot of money on a high quality coffee grinder like a KitchenAid Pro Line Burr model for instance.
So….we certainly recommend checking out the Cooks coffee grinders at your local JCPenney. We’re not sure if this particular model, which you can see in the inset photo (click to a enlarge), is even available anymore, but if they can sell a cheap coffee maker that works, they can certainly make another. Maybe the new ones will be even better.
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