Conical Burr Grinders

Somewhere between your third mediocre pour-over and the moment you finally taste a shot pulled on a grinder that actually knows what it’s doing, something clicks. You start reading burr geometry forum threads at midnight. You start saying words like “retention” out loud, unprompted, at dinner parties. Welcome to the club. A high end conical … Read more

Here’s a truth most Canadian coffee lovers stumble upon the hard way: you can own a $600 espresso machine and still pull a terrible shot if your grinder is mediocre. The grinder is the unsung hero — or villain — of every cup you brew. And if you’ve been living off pre-ground beans from the … Read more

A budget conical burr grinder is a coffee mill that uses two cone-shaped, interlocking burrs to crush beans into a uniform size, rather than chopping them with a spinning blade. The result is a more even extraction and a noticeably less bitter, less muddy cup — for a fraction of the price of a café-grade … Read more