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The grinder is very quiet compared to my old one with the worn out burrs and the container catches the ground coffee instead of throwing it around the counter. Put it on my wish list and got it as a gift. The interlocks work, just in case you leave off the cover or forget to insert the container. Watch out you may get what you wish for, but this has been a successful wish. The burr grind is very even. Yep, I did both. A handy brush for cleaning the burr comes with it and the burr is easy to remove for cleaning.
It's noisy, takes long time to grind, can't taste the difference b/w this and blade grinder, and most annoying, can't empty the grinds into the coffee maker without getting all over. I don't understand the design, 2nd time using it (first bought it many years ago, and then got it as a present recently). Having to replace it again with the Krups blade grinder.
This is my first grinder and it works great. Built very well and I am very pleased with this product. Worth the money.
The bad: the beans don't continuously feed into the grinder part without a fair amount of jiggling. It's a given then that as the upper burr is working itself loose, the grind that you've selected is not what you're getting. I bought the Krups GVX2-12 and returned it within one week. I set the fineness of the grind to medium for use on a drip coffee maker. Some minor annoyances: (1) some grinds start to migrate up and out from between the hopper lid and the hopper while the unit is running; (2) The GVX2-12 is somewhat narrow and tall and I can't get my hand into the ground coffee holder to wash it. They seem to get hung up around what the instruction booklet refers to as the "upper burr." The beans are pretty ordinary (Trader Joe's) and I keep them in the freezer for storage. The distance between the surfaces of the upper burr and what I'll call the lower burr is what determines the fineness of the ground.
Incidentally, it appears to me that many manufacturers (Cuisinart, Krups, Capresso) are using the very same burrs for the grinding function. The only good thing I can say about it is that it was quiet, much more quiet than the Cuisnart burr mill grinder that I had and which died after about 3-years of daily use. So then I have to stop the unit, remove the beans and reset the upper burr. The amount of coffee that I grind each morning is about one dry measuring cup of beans in one go and this quantity is well below the maximum level that is etched on the hopper lid. Even if I don't do any jiggling of the grinder while it's running I find that the upper burr has worked itself loose and the grinding action has been lost. You would think then that if they worked properly you should get the same kind of grinding performance from each of them. In my opinion Krups should recall this model and do a redesign.
Stay AWAY from this little thing- I would give it barely one star.It was nice for the first month or two then it just got clogged. I am handy with mechanics so I was able to disassemble and reassemble the thing, but then a month later the same problem again. We finally threw it away and went back to 10 year old our old blade grinder instead which works about 20X better. Big Disappointment from a Krups product and a big waste of money.
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