BURR COFFEE MAKER 

If you love coffee, and are looking for a way to get a better cup of coffee at home, you should consider grinding your own coffee. Personally, I can’t start the day without a cup or ten, and I want to drink the best that I can each day. Because I work at home, I don’t have the option of running into Starbucks each day. I started buying more expensive brands of coffee, and a coffee grinder. Coffee grinders help you get a fresher cup of coffee, and are easy to use. Most consumer models are small. A blade coffee grinder works well, but if you want the best, you should get a burr coffee grinder.

A blade grinder slices and dices your coffee beans down to an acceptable size, but a burr coffee grinder does a better job. The grain is more even, and your coffee will taste better. Unlike the slicing action of the blade variety, the burr coffee grinder chips it away little by little. In the end, this type is more expensive, but works much better.

Most restaurants will grind their own coffee beans, and if you look in their kitchen, you will probably find that they also use a burr coffee grinder. Some may use prepackaged coffee grounds, but for the freshest cup possible, the beans should be ground right before brewing. When coffee is ground, it immediately begins to lose the oils that give coffee its great taste. Imagine what has been lost by the time coffee is ground in the factory, packaged and arrives in the store. 

If you can’t find a burr coffee grinder in a department store, ask them if they carry them. Places like Wal-Mart may not carry them, but places like Bed Bath and Beyond or other like stores will. These will range in price, color and size. You can get a burr coffee grinder that will fit in your hand, or larger models that sit on your counter.

You may also find a good burr coffee grinder online. Just make sure it is in fact a burr grinder and not a blade one when you order. Many people get them confused. While a blade works just fine, some people simply insist on using a burr coffee grinder for the better quality grounds they produce. If you see a listing for a grinder, but it doesn’t say what type it is, you can assume it’s the blade variety. Keep looking for one that specifically says ‘burr’ on it.