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I’m pretty new to the world of coffee, at least to caring about it, anyway. I’ve been drinking drip coffee from pre-ground beans for years but wanted to start getting more into it. I picked up a moka pot and have loved it so far, but I’m stuck either using pre-ground or a blade grinder. I mostly do my coffee around 5:30 in the morning, a few hours before my infant daughter and wife are awake, and don’t want to risk waking them so I was thinking manual. I also don’t have tons of money to spend right now, since most of my money goes toward my daughter. My absolute cap would be $200 CAD but the cheaper the better honestly, as long as it isn’t really bad. I saw the Timemore S3 was very highly reviewed, and I can find it for around $180 CAD right now, so that’s what I was thinking, but I’ve only started doing research yesterday so I’m probably missing a thousand good models. Does anyone have any suggestions for models or blog posts or anything to look at? I’d really appreciate any help. The grinder would be used mostly for moka pot but I do also have a French press (mostly for my wife) and the aforementioned drip coffee machine that I’d like to be able to use the grinder for too. Espresso is off the table due to finances so I don’t need something that can go that finely ground.

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I bought a 1ZPresso JX in 2020, since it was getting a lot of positive reviews at the time. It's the only grinder I've owned, and has worked great every day since then. I think it has been replaced with a newer model now, but there's still something similar available. It was expensive for a coffee grinder, but at this rate, seems like it'll be the only one I ever buy.

I clean it when I remember to (every few weeks...or months) just by grinding some Urnex Grindz cleaning tablets in it.

I have not used it for a moka pot; I only do pour over. I vaguely remember a reviewer saying it has a good grind size for a moka pot too, though.

[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve seen lots of good things about 1ZPresso. I was kind of torn between them, Timemore, and KinGrinder. Not super set on one or another, other than the S3 currently being my top pick. But I’m not set on it or anything.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well kingrinder is just a rebranded 1zpresso of the discontinued 1zpresso Q2 and one of the older J models.

I have the Q2 and it is awesome for filter, but takes forever to grind for espresso, like 3-5 minutes forever lol.

[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

I didn’t know that, that’s interesting.

3-5 mins sounds painful (both figuratively and literally). From what I’ve read online, the S3 I’ve been looking at seems to be around 45 seconds or so for 18g at moka fineness (slightly more coarse than espresso, finer than filter). That seems more reasonable to me.