What grinds your Coffee~~??~~??

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Over the years of drinking coffee and espresso I have suffered through using off the shelf coffee grinders like Krupps, Mr, Coffee,Braun and the like, Well they seem to work just fine with the two spinning blades or the grinding burrs,,,,
My liking of old stuff brought me to using a Hobart/Kitchenaid grinder which I liked a lot, BUT then I found this Hobart Model 3330 commercial grinder from the 30s?
It needed a full rewire and cleaning, And then a bit of beans for a proper test.
Well all I have to say is that from coarse to fine powder like grounds it sure grinds them fast with it's 4 amp motor and large screw feed.
It lights when it's grinding or all the time depending on where you set the light, Or no light at all.
Now I know it seems like overkill to make 1 fresh cup of Espresso in the morning, And the fact that it's so darn big and weighs in at about 90 LBS is just silly to have it for my puny needs..
But is has found a home here in SE PA grinding coffee beans once again.
It sat unused in a carpenters shop for the past 30+ years.
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So there it is.
\Anyone else here as odd as I am?
Peter
 
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Last time it was a SAA butt and a rock. A true coffee drinker will always find a way.
 
Nice coffee grinder!

I love Eight O'Clock Columbian coffee. I buy whole bean and nobody at the store seems to object that I open the bag at the display and grind the beans in their specialty coffees grinder. Then I reseal the bag, pay for it, take it home and put it in an airtight container.
 
I thought this was one of those rant threads................... "You know what really grinds my coffee?!?!?"
 
BarbC said:
Nice coffee grinder!

I love Eight O'Clock Columbian coffee. I buy whole bean and nobody at the store seems to object that I open the bag at the display and grind the beans in their specialty coffees grinder. Then I reseal the bag, pay for it, take it home and put it in an airtight container.
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Same here. Most people don't know the pleasures of fresh ground coffee. The aroma spreads and other shoppers make comments about the great smell. I used to grind each potful before brewing but I've gotten lazy.
 
While I have considered calling in an air strike to rid my yard of voles, using that grinder for one cup of espresso might just be a tad excessive. Do the lights in the neighborhood dim when you throw the switch?

We're on our second Cuisinart grinder/brewer. The last one only held one pot worth of beans, but this one has a reservoir on top that lasts about four days (one ten cup pot per day). It only grinds enough for one pot at a time. At night we rinse the basket, add water and press the program button. At O-dark thirty, the grinder kicks in and the carafe keeps the coffee warm and potable for hours. Lately, we've been buying Sam's Club Colombian Supremo beans. Not the best, but good for the money.

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That old coffee grinder brought back memories of going to the A & P Store with my mother back in the '50's. The wonderful aroma of fresh ground coffee filled the air whenever the big grinder was running. You took the coffee home and put it in your Pyrex percolator pot when you wanted coffee. I remember it percolating on the kerosene stove as a kid, the rythmic burp-burp as it perked when it stopped you knew the coffee was done. I haven't had a cup of perked coffee like that in years.
 
I haven't seen a Hobart like that in probably 50 years!!!

What a treasure!
 
That is one, nice coffee grinder.

That reminds me of an incident from my "infancy". Yes, "infancy".

I'm just a month shy of my 69th birthday, and this must have happened when I was about three.

I was in a grocery store with my father, probably about 1943, It was a Safeway store.

We were in the coffee isle and they had these big grinders like that for people to grind beans in the store...instead of taking them home as they do now.

Well, I saw this big machine...with an even bigger switch. My three year old eyes were drawn to that big handel and I couldn't resit giving it a try...which I did...and there was coffee in the grinder...which spewed out all of the place...and quickly caught everyone attention...including my father...to which if I remember correctly...he directed all of his wrath and indignation to my keester!

Yuppers, got my butt pounded!

Amazing how you rember things like that!
 
Bought a BARATZA Virtuoso Burr Coffee Grinder last year and use Eight O'Clock Columbian beans. Makes a great rich cup of coffee. My wife and I really notice the difference between the burr grinder and my old blade grinder.
 
Cuisinart burr grinder

I'm with 'rags24'. I have been using the Cuisinart DBM-8 for over 2 years now, and combined with the 8 o'clock Columbian whole beans, I have a superior cuppa in the morning to start my day. There's nothing that compares to the smell of freshly brewing coffee and cooking bacon in the morning. Napalm doesn't come close.
 
I grind it every day with a Bunn commercial model ($810 if I remember correctly). It holds 20 lbs. of beans in each of two hoppers, but it mostly runs leaded. Oh yeah, did I mention I own a couple of restaurants?!?


I've gotten gun envy on this site many, many times. But I have NEVER gotten a case of grinder envy before. I too remember those A&P stores, and the whole row of coffees. We still grind ours with an old Krups blade grinder at home.

Now I'm gonna see if I can find me one of those antiques, that is just way too cool. Actually, I'd use it in a restaurant. We have a number of old photo's, and a few obsolete kitchen tools on display, that would be a centerpiece.

Nice,

The Highlander
 
First, don't get a blade grinder. There are crusher types that give a uniform grind. Just lay the beans out on a cutting board and smash them with the butt of an N frame. Seriously, I don't know what the call those types. Edit- Hofstet, just read your post more closely, he he. Burr type. I just saw that yesterday on a Consumer Reports bit on the Sunday morning news.

I was watching Americas Test Kitchen and learned something about grinding, even though I don't grind my own. To lazy. But if you get whole beans, there is a small percentage of what is known in the industry as "shakers". They are a light dull brown and are bitter in taste, Beans should be a shiny dark brown. If you want to take the time to sort them out before you grind them it should improve the taste.

BTW my favorite is Melitta Arabica, how do you pronounce? I keep it in the freezer.
 
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I'm really serious about my coffee, so I bought THIS about a year ago. Costco had them on sale for about half price.

O.M.G. It's the best money I have ever spent. Ya stumble down stairs in the morning, press a button and it rinses itself out. Press another button and out comes an espresso that puts Starbutts to shame.

I visited my mom last month. She's only person in the USA who still uses instant coffee. I had to grind the coffee, put it into a filter, add water to a Mr. Coffee and then wait.......... I thought I was gonna die.

Seriously. If you like coffee then sell a gun or two and get one of these.
 
The Highlander said:
I grind it every day with a Bunn commercial model ($810 if I remember correctly). It holds 20 lbs. of beans in each of two hoppers, but it mostly runs leaded. Oh yeah, did I mention I own a couple of restaurants?!?


I've gotten gun envy on this site many, many times. But I have NEVER gotten a case of grinder envy before. I too remember those A&P stores, and the whole row of coffees. We still grind ours with an old Krups blade grinder at home.

Now I'm gonna see if I can find me one of those antiques, that is just way too cool. Actually, I'd use it in a restaurant. We have a number of old photo's, and a few obsolete kitchen tools on display, that would be a centerpiece.

Nice,

The Highlander
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I think it would be up to the task.
It runs quiet and smooth and will grind a pound in just seconds, As I like to tinker I have found that it comes apart real easy, The grind adjuster just unscrews if you need to get in there, And as time passes, You can readjust the grinders with 2 lock screws and 1 adjuster screw as it's running.
All to easy to maintain.
I know it's silly that I bought it and just found another locally, Well 150 miles away and I ran to get it for the 50 bucks they were asking,
I rewired it last night, and it's running smoothly,,,,, Now I have one as backup for when this one pictured in the first post goes bad,,,, Only issue is that it's already 70+? years old and runs 100% and may last another,,,, Well longer than I will.
I really need a bigger house!
Peter
 
My Mom and Dad's wedding present (1st marriage) was a used Kitchen Aid and the basic attachments. My Mom and Dad's present to us on my second Marriage, was a factory rebuilt Kitchen Aid with most of the attachments. I've got a sneaking suspicion that 20 years from now, the coin of the realm might just be 1940's-50's vintage coffee grinding machines! They always were beautiful, but like so many other things of that and earlier era's, unappreciated, until they started being rarely seen outside of museums. Wonderful 20th century-late industrial age examples of when America still made something. And was the best at it!
 
It has been two weeks since I have been using the old Hobart grinder and I can taster the difference from the same beans ground on one of those spinning blade grinders at a friends house, Both of us using a french press,,, The coffee from the Hobard is much stronger and more flavor.
I figure it may be around for a long-long time.
Peter
 
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