Manual coffee grinder - the best way to get ground coffee

Now, confidently, no one can say who invented the first natural coffee. Someone argues that it all began with African tribes, which in long stone stupas for a long time pushed coffee beans, and then boiled the resulting powder in a boiler boiling at the stake. And someone attributes the discovery of this invigorating drink to the East. However, everyone is convinced that the very first coffee grinder was invented at the end of the 15th century by the Arabs. They poured a handful of grains into a small cylinder and rubbed them, turning the handle that rotated the two inner millstones.

True connoisseurs of ground natural coffee claim that ground in an electric coffee grinder, it is significantly different in taste from the one that was crushed by hand. With electric grinding coffee beans lose all their aroma in the process of grinding, and when they turn by hand they do not overheat, but slowly grind, leaving the whole fragrant aroma to the drink. Another advantage of this coffee grinder is the ability to adjust the degree of granularity - with the help of it you can achieve uniform and extra-fine grinding.

In addition, a hand coffee grinder can be an original decoration of any kitchen, always pleasing the eye with its design, and the barely perceptible aroma of coffee crumbs that remained in it will create peace and comfort in the house.

If the coffee grinder is of European type, then it has the shape of a cube with a drawer below, where freshly ground coffee is poured, the eastern one usually has a cylindrical shape, so it is more convenient to hold it by hand.

The material from which modern coffee grinders are made is quite diverse. In addition to wood, as in the old days, cast iron, stainless steel, plastic, ceramics are also used.

As for design, they are made in different styles and with all sorts of decor, with a closed funnel, with two drawers for ground coffee, with an original handle or a rather unusual coloring of the case.

A wonderful and original gift will be a manual coffee grinder, which you can buy both in an antique store, for connoisseurs of rarities, and in any dishware, depending on the design and price category.

The manual coffee grinder is knife and millstone, currently the preference is mainly given to the latter. In it, as a rule, conical millstones are used, which rotate and crush the grains, and with the help of an adjusting screw the degree of their grinding is controlled. In such a coffee grinder, one of the millstones is stationary, and only the second rotates. The grains are poured into the funnel through the hole at the top of the structure, and with the help of the grinder handle is set in motion, the coffee is slowly and gradually grinded.

In order to get the desired ground coffee, it will take a little effort. The manual coffee grinder has a small drawback in this, while the electric coffee grinder handles this task in a matter of seconds.

The maximum distance between the millstones will allow obtaining a coarse grinding, which is used for a french press, the middle is intended for espresso, and the minimum, respectively, the finest grinding, is ideal for thick coffee in a Turkish (Jezeol).