If you want to cut down your coffee consumption, this is the grinder for you.
It works perfectly well – the grind is fine and consistent, and the screw that locks the handle stays put throughout the grinding process.
As long as you can hold on to its tiny handle and work it round for ten minutes, you can get enough ground to make a whole cup of coffee. Your hands will be sore from the handle digging into them, and your arms will be tense from many tiny, stiff cycles. You might be short of breath. Perhaps you knocked a few things onto the floor when you inevitably slipped. But success is possible, and you will know that you earned each brew.
The mechanism doesn’t disassemble completely, so it is hard to clean and dry. I usually leave it in the airing cupboard after cleaning it.
If you like coffee and you like a struggle, then you can pick up one of these arduous grinders for £7 from John Lewis.
Graham Markall 