Features:

  • POWERFUL, EFFICIENT AND SUPER SILENT: Grinds coffee beans for 12 cups in 15 seconds for drip coffee with minimum grinding noise.
  • INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY: Patent Pending Vortex Spin Technology pulls ingredients into the blades for fast and efficient grinding.
  • VERSATILITY: 3-in-1 Grinder for coffee, spices, and dry herbs. Effortlessly grinds whole coffee beans, hard spices like whole peppercorns, and dry herbs for flavorful meals.
  • LARGE CAPACITY AND DISHWASHER SAFE: The removable dishwasher-safe stainless-steel grinding bowl. Holds ground coffee for up to 12 cups of drip coffee
  • MESS-FREE: The removable bowl comes with a dedicated storage lid that seals the grinding bowl to perfectly store your freshly ground coffee, dry herbs, or spices! Dishwasher safe.
  • EASY ONE TOUCH OPERATION: Continuous and pulse grinding.
It's probably best to have one for coffee and one for Spices

It's probably best to have one for coffee and one for Spices. B/c you don't want your coffee to taste like your spices. It's a little cumbersome to clean thoroughly. Even if you do, it still smells a bit like stale coffee (or spices). But for the price, it does the job extremely well. I've found that for coffee you can get coarse-ground with a 5-second solid push of the on button. Medium ground (my preference) for a 12 second press. And very find powder for a 20 second press. Pro-tip: Gently/slowly Shake the grinder while it's grinding to help make a more consistent grind, otherwise you end up with a mix of fine and coarsely ground particles. An absolute must for anyone that enjoys freshly ground "whole-bean" coffee made in a French Press! (compare to any chain coffee shop, you will never go back!)

Little, but works great!

He works so hard for such a little guy. I use my Krups grinder for grinding spices and coffee (I go through with a chopstick to loosen up the stragglers hanging on to the edge of the walls and also grind a piece of bread that cleans up the smells and excess grindings handing about.) That being said I find it great for people like me who just do single cups of coffee in a Kurig. It does blend a bit on the fine side, so sometimes you need to like the custom cups with a little paper to prevent sludge from happening. It's a great blender for the price and it's size, definitely!

"SILENT KRUPS" COFFEE FLAVOR EXTRACTOR

Seeing that I'm the first person to write a review I'm honored. Silent should be the first word in the description (see update) of this "Krups GX332850 Vortex Coffee, Spice Dry Herbs, Silent Grinder, 4.33 X 4.02 X 8.46 In, Silver". It's really amazing how quiet it really is. Its ability to grind coffee perfectly in a matter of 15 seconds. Compared to 1 minute with other grinders. The benefits of grinding coffee so quickly is it does not heat the beans up. Virtually no friction whatsoever. I'm enjoying the best cup of coffee I've had in a long time because of this thank you KRUPS. Thank you Amazon for sharing this great product. Update: 2/16/20 Not as quiet. After about four months of use it's getting louder. Still a great coffee grinder exceptional quality and workmanship.

Perfect little grinder.

This is a perfect little grinder. I use it to grind seeds (flax and chia) which it does quickly and well. The one asterisk is that if someone else is sleeping within audible range, the grinding does make a sharp noise. Maybe they should make a deluxe model with a muffler :). I had one of these for something like 20 years, and it still worked fine (only discarded it because it'd been so long since I'd used it that it was too tedious to clean). I have no reason to believe this one won't last as long.

Great

I just love this coffee grinder! My boyfriend had the same one - he's had it for over 15 years and it still worked like a charm! that is, until the cleaning lady knocked it off the counter a couple of weeks ago and shattered the top into little pieces. Anyway, the coffee grinder is perfect for my French press. You just put the coffee in, press the top, and voila. The grind will be consistent as long as you don't overfill the grinder. My French press is 16 ounces and I get the exact amount of coffee for 2 cups. I haven't tried grinding spices yet but I'm sure it would work just fine. You can't really put the grinder in the dishwasher but I read somewhere that you can easily clean it with rice. You can wipe the interior with a wet cloth, dry it out, then grind some rice. The rice will soak up any residue of coffee or spices and will remove any lingering smell.

This is wonderful!

We use this grinder daily for coffee beans. I have used it for grinding coriander seeds, and it did that just as well. It is a nice size, and looks good on the counter. It is easy to use, and easy to clean. I actually can get most of the coffee grounds out just by brushing around with the edge of a plastic measuring spoon, since the grounds want to stick by static electricity after you run the grinder. But I have used the bread grinding trick before and after the coriander seeds, and it worked great. You may want to use a rubber gripper to pull the lid off, and unplug it before you do that, since the button to grind is on the lid. The rubber gripper will give you a lot more control easing that lid off slowly so you don't throw grounds all over the counter. This is about my favorite small appliance (in a close race with the toaster).

Excellent Reliable Choice for Coffee Grinder

I like this coffee grinder above other styles I've used. The grinder works very well and has consistently for a few years now. This is my second one of this exact same style. I have a Jura Super Automatic coffee machine that grinds my beans internally so I gave my other one to a friend and just bought this exact same thing for replacement when I started back with my French Press for variety. I like that it holds a proper amount of beans for my French Press or my Stovetop Espresso Maker.. on the Espresso pot I can grind beans 1 time and get 3 pots out of it. I also like that the top is large and after grinding you can flip it upside down and the ground coffee is now in the top as a 'cup' which is easier to pour into the coffee pot without making a mess. It grinds well at various levels of coarseness, it is easily cleanable, the price is GREAT on here, and it has worked reliably for years. I suppose the 'burr style' grinder is better for coffee flavor but I have never been able to tell any difference between the two.

Pleasantly surprised by the noise level and consistency

I was a purest and only used conical burr grinders in the past. However, after 3 models that eventually stopped working, I was tired of shelling out a few hundred dollars. I came across a review by American's Test Kitchen, they found that a good blade grinder did not have a noticeable difference in taste from a burr grinder. While they ultimately preferred a burr, they were shocked a cheap blade worked so well. So I ordered this being so highly rated. Well, I'm very pleased that I can get consistent results and it is so amazingly quiet and easy to clean. The grinds are not all perfect, but I find I can get a consistent grind at 15 seconds that works great for my Technivorm. If you are a burr grinder purest then at least order this as a back up when your burr fails. You may find after using this you may want to save your money on a burr replacement.

Good grinder that works well for the cost. I have used it for flaxseed grinding only so far.

I purchased this grinder for flaxseed, because I wanted fresher, whole kernel flaxseed that I could eat 1 oz daily for health reasons. This grinder was low-cost, but works well for creating perfectly ground flaxseed for my breakfast. I have ground up to 5.5 oz of flaxseed in the grinder to test how much I would be able to grind in it, and it has done a great job whether I use 1 oz or 5.5 oz. I have not tried to grind coffee beans, since I mainly purchased the grinder for flaxseed. For cleanup, the grinder does have the flaxseed slightly stick to the blade, so cleanup takes a bit longer than it would if the parts could all be removed (if they can, I haven't figured out how to do that anyway). This is a small issue, and I'm very pleased with this purchase.

Does just one thing, but does it well!

Okay, this is a simple machine, and it does just ONE THING, but OMG it does it well. I actually have two of these grinders: one for spices, and another one for coffee beans. I’ve used them every day or multiple times a day for years, and they just keep on ticking. Just put your whole spices in with the blades, put the lid on, and press down on the button until the spices are ground to your liking. I typically pulse the motor instead of running it constantly — a long run tends to make it heat up a bit. After dumping the ground spices out, a couple swipes with my finger around the grinding bowl will dislodge most of the stray spices. After I’m done, I hand-wash the lid and wipe down the bowl with a damp paper towel, then let it dry or hurry it up myself with a dry paper towel, and it’s ready to go again. I store it with the lid off so the bowl and lid stay very dry, which minimizes spice clumping. I’ve had my grinders for years and used them frequently and they’re still going strong. I’d buy another one in an instant if something happened to mine. In fact, I’ve bought several more and given them away to family members who've expressed an interest in grinding their own spices. A word of caution about cleaning: Do not put water into the bowl where the blades are. This should be elementary, but a couple years ago I got annoyed with swiping the bowl with a damp paper towel to clean it because no matter how hard I tried there was always a bit of spice left behind around the blade shaft, under the blades, or along the seam between the metal bowl and plastic side. So I started sloshing a liiiittle water in there, maybe a couple tablespoons, and was gratified to see the bowl nice and clean… but a couple days later the motor started to sputter. It sounded terrible and I was afraid my beloved spice grinder was going to die. I was so worried, in fact, that I bought another one from Amazon so I wouldn't be without my grinder for even a single day. Then I made the connection with the water. I stopped sloshing water in there, and after a couple days to dry out the spice grinder was working perfectly again and has worked fine ever since (that was two years ago). And the extra grinder? I gave it to another family member who wanted to grind her own spices. I’ve also tried cleaning it by whizzing a couple teaspoons of dry rice in there, which worked okay but was kind of a hassle, so I just use the damp paper towel and am no longer concerned if a little spice is left behind. I use the grinder for cumin, coriander, and sometimes other savory spices like allspice, fennel seed, white peppercorns etc., which all taste good together, so I am no longer bothered by having a little bit of spice residue in my grinder. If I grind something unusual, which might affect the taste of the next dish I made, I clean the grinder out much more carefully, but still with a damp paper towel: I fold it a couple times and run the corner along the seam, then run a strip of paper towel under the blades, and so forth.

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