Capresso grinder - first try

Well, Young and I ordered some interesting sounding coffees from an on-line shop called The Coffee Fool. We ordered a few 1 pound bags of their fresh roasted whole bean flavored coffees. We ground up a small batch in our old Braun blade-style gringer with the usual ten-count grind (resulting in a medium grind). As usual, there was a slight burnt smell to the resulting grounds, but we went ahead and brewed it up.

The resulting coffee had good flavor, but always with that slight hint of burnt something in the background. In addition, there was a slight sourness to the coffee that you could pick up as the coffee cooled in the mug. Hmm. We liked the beans, but that burnt thing was really ruining things for us.

So we checked amazon.com to see what people recommended, and the choice seemed fairly unamimous: A canonical burr (not blade) coffee grinder. And the highest rated model was the Capresso Infinity. I use the Capresso retail location finder, and Young and I drove down to Los Altos' Cook's Corner and picked one up.

So we just tried it out using the Decaf Highlander Grogg beans. The burr grinder definitely seems like a heavy duty piece of equipment, but is definitely less noisy than the Braun blade grinder. The resulting grounds were very uniform in size. The encouraging thing was that the was absolutely no burnt smell emanating from the grounds.

The brewed coffee was even better- There was no burnt undertones, and absolutely no sourness, even though we served the coffee iced. Wow, what a difference that made. Even though the Capresso Inficinity is pricey, it definitely made a huge difference in the quality of the output.

If you like coffee, it's money well spent IMO.