Mr. Coffee IDS77 Electric Coffee Grinder with Chamber Maid Cleaning System, Black
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Mr. CoffeeBrand: Mr. Coffee
Model: IDS77
Color: Black
Product features:
- Measures 4-1/2 by 4 by 8-inch; 1-year limited warranty.
- Removable, dishwasher-safe grinding chamber; cord storage
- Chamber maid cleaning system; bowl scraper disLodges coffee from grinding area
- 3 Grind settings; wide upper collar; flip-top lid for mess-free filling and emptying
- Electric coffee grinder grinds 4 to 12 cups for precision brewing
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Mr. Coffee IDS77 Electric Coffee Grinder with Chamber Maid Cleaning System, Black
Customer Review: Just buy a burr or an old shake n' time grinder
Summary: 2 Stars
Summary: This product is fragile and less precise than less expensive models. If what you want is consistent control over the coarseness of your grind, burr grinders are the way to go. If what you want is something inexpensive that will get the job done, you can do better for cheaper. Someone wrote a glowing review of this product who disapproves of burr grinders, but I have just switched to a cheap burr grinder (Cuisinart DBM-8) from this product and my pressed coffee has never tasted better. I'll try to be a bit more specific. I would like to argue that this product is ill-suited for almost any coffee-grinding needs.
The goal of this product is to give you the control over grinding your coffee that resembles that of a burr grinder but at the price and convenience of a small blade grinder. It aims to accomplish this goal by featuring three spinning columns along the inside wall of the cup. When you grind the coffee these columns spin to keep the coffee moving onto the blade so that the beans grind consistently regardless of the speed at which the blade spins. Then, by selecting one of three settings on the device, the blade will spin more or less quickly so as to grind the beans more or less finely. (There is a second setting for how much coffee you want to grind that affects the overall duration of the grinding session.) In theory, therefore, the grinder should give you moderate control over the coarseness of your grind while all you have to do is make the appropriate selection and press the "on" button.
However, these spinning columns accomplish no more than what can be accomplished by a $10 coffee grinder and a good shaking. So, the question is whether it's worth the extra money to have a grinder that changes the speed of the blade.
The main problem with this grinder in practice is that the speed-variation and stirring are utterly insufficient to grind the coffee medium-coarse (for a conic drip coffee maker) to coarse (for a press), which, incidentally, is all I ever wanted from the device. Gravity overpowers the stirring and tends to produce sedimentary layers of more to less ground coffee. This inconsistency is the worst problem you can have with a coffee grinder, in my opinion at least. For a press for example, any amount of very finely ground coffee will produce a tannin-embittered sludge at the bottom of your press/cup. This makes the final portion of your batch of coffee undrinkable, and makes the rest of it spoil more quickly. One might try to solve this problem, as my roommates have, by shaking the coffee grinder in addition to selecting its settings. But this quickly reveals two things: (1) Shaking the coffee and grinding it for a set amount of time actually can be found to exhibit more control over the grind than the settings (you can, e.g., set it to fine, shake it, and just not grind it as long and accomplish the same thing as setting it to coarse and grinding it longer); and (2) Shaking the coffee grinder appears to cause the plastic stirring columns to break. My grinder broke within a year, presumably because of shaking.
If shaking the coffee grinder gets one more consistency and control than the automatic control settings, then there is no reason to buy a grinder with such settings. Just buy a cheap one and learn the art of shaking and timing. Further, once the columns break (whether they will so easily when the product is not shaken, I cannot say), the stirring function is useless and the coffee is hopelessly inconsistent. So, if the main selling point of the product is so limited in life-span, then why not spend a little more money on a burr grinder which will last much longer.
Getting down to the bottom-line, I think that what coffee grinder you purchase will depend primarily on how you intend to make your coffee. If you want medium-coarse coffee for a conic-filtered drip machine, I don't see any reason to be dissatisfied with the shake n' time method and a cheap grinder. If you happen to want medium-fine ground coffee for a cheaper machine and you're willing to resist the temptation to shake this grinder AND you want the convenience of not having to shake, then maybe this grinder will suit your needs. But if you want pressed coffee, the burr grinder is hands down the only sufficient way to go. Moreover, since the burr grinder will also give you at least equal (but I would argue better) results for the other methods of brewing just described, the only reason I see not to buy it is because you want to save $30 and get an arm workout. [Note: I've ignored the issue of espresso grinding which readers of these reviews will appreciate is a more complicated issue.]
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Description of Mr. Coffee IDS77 Electric Coffee Grinder with Chamber Maid Cleaning System, Black
The Mr. Coffee IDS77 coffee grinder makes personalizing 4-12 cups of coffee easy. You can choose your grind setting from fine to course and the removable grinding chamber and wide opening lid create less mess and allow for easy pouring. The exclusive Chamber Maid(tm) Cleaning System cleans grounds from chamber walls leaving no messy residue and less coffee waste.Grinders & Roasters
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