Universal Housewares Gourmet Cast Iron Coffee Grinder
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Universal HousewaresBrand: Universal Housewares
Model: 109
Product features:
- Covered Bean Hopper
- Grinding adjustable wheel
- Wood coffee grounds drawer
- Classic hand grinding wheel
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Universal Housewares Gourmet Cast Iron Coffee Grinder
Customer Review: SAVE YOUR MONEY IF YOU WANT A GRINDER, but it's pretty
Summary: 1 Stars
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.
Description of Universal Housewares Gourmet Cast Iron Coffee Grinder
Perfectly grinds coffee from coarse to very fine for better tasting freshier coffeeGrinders & Roasters
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