When you grind coffee beans, you want to use a burr grinder, not a blade grinder. Burr grinders break the beans into uniformly sized chunks, unlike blade grinders, which slice the beans into pieces of widely varying size. I’ve had my Capresso Infinity Conical Burr for over 10 years and it’s still working like a champ. It’s on sale on Amazon today for [amazon_link asins=’B0000AR7SY’ template=’PriceLink’ store=’boingboing’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d2983c96-0114-4667-b3f0-5aa4e897531e’]