Best Manual Grinder

Manual coffee grinders can be a slippery slope. It only takes about $70-$80 to find one that will do your specialty coffee justice, but as the price creeps upward, so too do build quality and grind consistency and overall refinement. At some point, you’ll hit diminishing returns. So the question becomes: what does it take…

Timemore was one of the first brands to sell legitimately high-end hand grinders at an affordable price. Early reviews were few, but positive, so around 2018 I took the plunge on their original Chestnut model. (It’s now called the Chestnut G1, but I believe it was the only “Chestnut” model at the time.) The Chestnut…