Tefal Coffee Grinder

Great coffee grinder. This is a wonderful grinder and it is powerful a of decent depth. I have used many grinders from the huble moulinex to Krupps. I can honestly say this is the best of the bunch. It has a 200 watt motor and it feels sturdy and robust. With a little press it pounds through the coffee. You only need to press it for 10 seconds and I have good ground coffee. No faffing around and shaking or opening and checking if it is consistent. It just does the job efficiently and effectively. Like, I mentioned I have used many grinders and this is the best. It grinds everything you throw at it. I ground some nuts, and seeds and it ground them to a powder. I didn't want it ground to a powder, but I couldn't resist to see how powerful it was. The second batch of nuts (walnuts and hazlenuts) 5 seconds and they were ground to perfection for the cake the wife was readying. If you were to buy one grinder from a bunch of many. This should be your first choice. It is Tefal so it has a good guarantee behind it. But, I suspect it will last a good few years. Will it outlast my old Moulinex, which lasted 10 years, I doubt it. Nothing lasts that long. But, 3-5 years I guess I got my moneys worth, due to the amount of grinding I do. My krupps and Andrew James are now relegated to the cupboard.

Excellent quality solid grinder. Been using mine for years. Can recommend.

Does exactly what it should and lasts for years.

this works very well, it's very quick, quite quiet, and the oval shape makes it easier to lift and pour the ground coffee out, the only reason I've not given it 5 stars is that perhaps it's too efficient - the coffee is ground so finely, it clings to the sides and base (is it static, is it the essential oils in the coffee?) - and has to be "dug out" with a small spoon! But hey, there are worse jobs....!

I bought this to grind linseeds (flax) and it works a treat. I already have an old coffee grinder which still works fine but I wanted to keep the two foods separate to avoid flavour contamination. I guess this product chops rather than grinds because it uses a twin blade. The instructions state that you should not use for more than 20s at a time and then allow a minute's rest for cooling before using again. However, the linseed is well chopped to a fine consistency after a few very short bursts and this means I don't have to worry about that. Short bursts are also good if you want to stop before the seeds become powder! It suits me fine and I am very pleased with the product and service of the supplier. The product is very compact and light. The switch is very practical and easy to use - safe too as it won't work without the lid in place.

We buy ground coffee for the office, and over time people have picked up bags of coffee beans instead of ground coffee by accident, so I was looking for something cheap to use to grind the beans. The bags of coffee we get are the standard 227g from a supermarket. This grinder can blend the whole bag by doing it four times. The instructions say that you should run the grinder for no more than 20 seconds, and then let it stand for 1 minute. However, I find that 10 seconds is good enough to blend the beans, and after the first run you do start to smell burning from the motor inside. It's not a terrible smell, and at no time do I feel that the device is about to explode in my hands, but it's there and it can often overpower the smell of the freshly ground coffee. Viewing the product image, you place the beans into the black section at the top, cover with the see through section which is the lid, and hold down the white part with your finger to make it start the blend. It's not the finest of pourers, so once I have blended the beans I tend to use a scoop to take out a few spoonfuls prior to tipping the remaining beans into a storage jar; if I don't take out the few scoops first it can get a little messy. The device is a blender, more than a grinder, and simply uses two blades spinning to cut up the beans (it says you can also use this for spices, but I have not attempted that). Once done, the cleaning it pretty straightforward. You can't submerge the black section in water as that's where the motor is, but I put some in the top section where the beans go and wipe clean with kitchen towel, and then the top see through section can be washed in the sink normally. I would not recommend this product as something you bring to the table after a dinner party, but for a quick and functional piece of kit for occasional home use, it's decent enough for the price.

I use this grinder to grind coffee for espresso. I know a burr grinder would be better but this is at least 5 times cheaper and does a pretty good job. I grind the coffee in 3 sets of 5 seconds grind with shaking the grinder a bit between sets. This makes the coffee really fine and suitable for espresso, although it probable makes a lot of coffee "dust" which some people might find unacceptable, but that's the problem with all blade grinders. The downside to using this to grind coffee is that if the beans are fresh, some coffee seems to stick at the bottom below the blade and you have to scoop it out with your finger or a brush or whatever. I'd like to add that I am not an expert in coffee grinders (I only have one other model to compare this with) so you should take anything I say with a grain of salt. But for a casual coffee guy like myself this product has been pretty good so far.

Bought this not so long ago and today the blades stopped rotating despite the motor still working. Probably due to a design error. As it had not got a great deal of use I would suspect it would have broke some time ago if it had sustained heavier usage. In addition to this, I was rather surprised to find on arrival that it was supplied with a UK 3-pin plug rather than the required euro standard 2-pin plug. NOT recommended.