Review on ☕ Ode Brew Grinder - High-Performance Electric Burr Coffee Grinder, 31 Adjustable Settings for Drip, French Press, Cold Brew, Compact Design, Sleek Matte Black Finish by Jessica Shakman

As a $300 coffee grinder, I wanted to love this product. It should be ideal as a dosing grinder. It's not like this. First, if you are unfamiliar with the type of coffee grinder; this is the "dose" of the coffee grinder. You weigh or otherwise measure your beans, say 15-30 grams for a basting, or maybe up to 65 grams for a cone filter pot, and pour them into the hopper. Replace the cap to reduce noise. You set the degree of grinding with the rotary wheel on the front. The intended process is for you to put the lid on, press the little button on the front and the coffee will grind silently and quickly and will sense when all the coffee comes down through the blades and stop. I see two problems. I knew the mill was dirty. In particular, there is a gap between the grinding hopper and the grinder. Some floors slip. I could bear it if it was the only problem with the coffee grinder. The second issue is that it struggles with any dark roast coffee I add. If the coffee is roasted enough that oil builds up on the surface, a shallow feed ramp will cause the burr to bind. Since the coffee does not hit the blades, the grinder switches off. You pour in some coffee, restart the grinder, it grinds briefly and then shuts off again. This can happen three times. Once it turns off during a grind, it seems to change how it works, and it randomly turns off unless it's under load. In this case, it won't turn off until you turn it off. I think this can be done on purpose. Now even lightly roasted coffee can get stuck. However, this is almost always the case with dark roasts. I believe this is all the result of stupid design decisions. They wanted the grinder to be short and compact, but they also needed to have a popcorn guard. Since the feed ramp is short, the gap must be small so that fingers, even small children's fingers, do not get caught on the blades. To make the grinder shorter and prettier, they saved height by making the feed ramp flatter. This stupid choice happens when you don't let the engineers responsible for running your product make the final decisions about the external components required. Think about it like this. Suppose there is a very beautiful car design that is only two feet tall. Is it worth building? Or should you make it big enough to include people who are more than three standard deviations below the average height? The design rule is: Form follows function. When form comes first in your design, functionality is compromised. That's exactly what's happening here. And the coffee grinder is therefore constantly jammed. Oils in dark roast coffees and sometimes random bean placement in light roast coffees cause the beans to get stuck in the delivery dock. But it looks great in your kitchen. good for pouring over ground or coarser coffee (I knew that when I bought it) and dirty (grinds the whole table) but sticks to dark roasts all the time and even light roasts occasionally. You have to shake the grinder (ha!) and grind with the lid off so you can see misfeeds, which makes them louder. The mess could have been reduced with a different hopper cover that rubbed and touched the bottom of the mill. this is during the grinding process. But the entry ramp issue, well the only way I see to fix it is to make the grinder higher so the feed works better and I'm not sure if that's just with a new one part is possible. I did a taste test with my old grinder, I think the coffee tastes better with this grinder, but the test wasn't blind. I wanted the coffee to taste better. I had to shake my old grinder from time to time (not as often as this grinder) but it stayed on until it turned off until it didn't detect a charge. If I paid $150 for this coffee grinder I'd be a happy pup. I would accept some problems. But I paid a premium for what I hoped was a premium product. And he has too many problems for me to give him an unconditional recommendation. If you're only grinding lightly roasted coffee, it's possible that it will only grind on one in five grinds, rather than almost every grind.