7 Best Coffee Grinders, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

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Conical-burr each rounders:

Baratza Encore for $150: Baratza's archetypal Encore is the Honda of the conical burr grinder world: casual to maintain, runs great, casual to use, lasts forever, replacement parts casual to find. It's been connected the marketplace mostly unchanged for much than a decade. For not overmuch more, the ESP offers beauteous accommodation connected espresso settings, truthful I thin to urge the added versatility. But the archetypal Encore remains a coagulated entry-level choice.

Baratza Virtuoso+ for $250: The Virtuoso+ uses the aforesaid burr acceptable arsenic the ESP, but is not rather arsenic optimized for espresso. The biggest upgrade against the Encore ESP is simply a timer. Both person akin rock-solid but compact builds (although the Virtuoso is simply a small much stylish with its fitted grounds bin), 40 grind settings, and burr grinders for accordant grounds. The Virtuoso’s integer timer, however, is large for those wanting accordant java crushed dosings each morning. You’ll person to dial successful connected your grind clip versus java grounds output, but erstwhile you fig that out, you tin locomotion distant from the grinder and multitask if you please. —Tyler Shane

OXO Brew Conical Burr Grinder With Scale for $285: Making large java consistently is each astir measuring your variables, and this Oxo exemplary comes with a built-in scale. Set your grind size, prime the value you want, deed Start, and locomotion away; it shuts itself disconnected erstwhile it's done. This is simply a large mode to streamline your greeting ritual, but the instrumentality does spray disconnected a fewer grounds—and astatine its terms range, we thin to similar the Fellow Opus oregon Baratza ESP arsenic an all-rounder.

KitchenAid Burr Grinder for $200: This KitchenAid is stylish and casual to clean, according to erstwhile WIRED reviewer Jaina Grey, and the burrs are accessible acknowledgment to their placement straight beneath the hopper. It besides features precise dose control, with grind size controlled by a dial. For espresso lovers, 1 fantabulous diagnostic is that you tin swap the small instrumentality that catches the grounds with a holder for a portafilter.

Flat burrs for drip and pour-over:

Wilfa Uniform for $349: This Wilfa has agelong been connected our database arsenic a large flat-burr grinder for pour-overs and drip. It remains such, though the Ode springboarded it arsenic the apical prime with its Gen 2 burr update, astatine astir the aforesaid price. Like its sanction suggests, the Wilfa offers a beautifully accordant grind size and volition marque you a beauteous pour-over. That said, it's a small fussier to set and louder than the Ode.

Baratza Vario W+ for $600: The Encore has a bigger, beefier, level burr cousin, the Baratza Vario-W+ (7/10, WIRED Recommends) with a built-in standard and ridiculously granular accommodation (230 settings!). But similar a batch of level burrs, it struggles connected finer grinds, according to WIRED contributor Joe Ray. And static is an issue. With terms successful play, the Ode Gen 2 comes retired connected top, but Ray was inactive a large instrumentality of the Vario.

For question and camping:

VSSL Java manual grinder for $148: VSSL specializes successful ultra-durable camping tools, and applied this aforesaid durable operation to this durable campsite-ready manus grinder that WIRED reviewer Scott Gilbertson attests to beryllium rugged capable to past the zombie apocalypse. The grip folds retired to supply a batch of leverage portion you grind, and you tin usage it arsenic a hook to bent the instrumentality up erstwhile you're done.

DmofwHi Cordless Grinder for $31: Going camping successful the existent woods but don't consciousness similar moving excessively hard by hand-grinding to get a cup? Here you go. The DmofwHi grinder is simply a coagulated small leaf grinder that's wireless and rechargeable (via USB-C), and you tin grind capable java for astir 15 to 18 pots of java connected a azygous charge. It's a leaf grinder, don't expect espresso. But for immoderate roadside drip, Turkish oregon cowboy? Have fun.

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Aarke Flat-Burr Grinder for $370: This pretty, shiny, stainless alloy Aarke grinder contains a unsocial diagnostic erstwhile paired with Aarke's java brewer, detecting the h2o successful the brewer's vessel and grinding the due magnitude of beans. But this diagnostic wasn't arsenic calibrated arsenic we'd like, and determination person been a batch of online reports of grinder jams. I didn't person the aforesaid problem, but astatine much than $300 for a grinder that hasn't been agelong connected the market, prudence is often rewarded.

Hario Skerton Pro for $50: The Hario Skerton was the gateway manus grinder for galore a java nerd, but has since fixed crushed to newer entrants. It's accelerated and cheap, but it'll springiness you a heck of a workout and isn't arsenic accordant for coarse grinds, positive the silicone grip has a wont of falling off.

Hario Mini-Slim Plus for $37: This smaller Hario is not arsenic accelerated arsenic the Skerton, but its integrative operation makes it bully to propulsion successful a question bag—and the debased terms is different crushed you'll consciousness harmless carting it around.

Cuisinart Burr Grinder for $60: At first, it seems similar a bully deal. It's Cuisinart, a known brand, and a conical burr grinder for little than $100! But erstwhile WIRED reviewer Jaina Grey recovered that the debased terms came with a cost: These things pain retired faster than a stone prima successful the precocious '60s.

Bodum Bistro Electric Blade Grinder for $20: This small leaf grinder is rather cheap, and the exemplary has served WIRED contributing reviewer Tyler Shane for years. That said, aft immoderate inconsistent reports connected durability, we favour the KitchenAid arsenic our fund pick.

Breville Smart Grinder Pro for $200: WIRED has recommended this Breville successful the past for its accessible burrs that marque it casual to clean. But ever since Breville bought Baratza, they've dilatory been swapping retired the grinders successful their fantabulous top-line semi-automatic espresso machines with those fantabulous Baratza burrs. For a standalone grinder, we springiness the aforesaid advice.