It came nicely packaged in a small box. I read the instructions and wiped it down before use. It has a lid with a handle, a cylinder with some kind of ceramic piece that grinds the beans and at the bottom of the cylinder youre able to rotate the inside left or right to adjust how large you want your grounds. A small plastic cup attaches snugly to the cylinder and catches the grounds.
The particular amount I prefer for my coffee was one and a half plastic cup fulls. I found a nice way to feed the beans into the grinder is fill one of your palms with beans, rest the cylinder on the side of your palm and let the beans slide in to the grinder. While rotating the handle it makes about as much noise as someone eating crunchy cereal. I appreciate this because I accidentally bought coffee beans rather than grounds and its an affordable way to crush up the beans rather than between two cups using muscle.
When you first get it, be sure to loosen or turn the grounds/lever/thing at the bottom of the cylinder to the left a bit, youll see it open up in a circle within the cylinder to allow larger shavings of bean through. Otherwise you may find it difficult to rotate at first and it may shave off ceramic clay.
I bought the stainless steel version.
Works well
It came nicely packaged in a small box. I read the instructions and wiped it down before use. It has a lid with a handle, a cylinder with some kind of ceramic piece that grinds the beans and at the bottom of the cylinder youre able to rotate the inside left or right to adjust how large you want your grounds. A small plastic cup attaches snugly to the cylinder and catches the grounds. The particular amount I prefer for my coffee was one and a half plastic cup fulls. I found a nice way to feed the beans into the grinder is fill one of your palms with beans, rest the cylinder on the side of your palm and let the beans slide in to the grinder. While rotating the handle it makes about as much noise as someone eating crunchy cereal. I appreciate this because I accidentally bought coffee beans rather than grounds and its an affordable way to crush up the beans rather than between two cups using muscle. When you first get it, be sure to loosen or turn the grounds/lever/thing at the bottom of the cylinder to the left a bit, youll see it open up in a circle within the cylinder to allow larger shavings of bean through. Otherwise you may find it difficult to rotate at first and it may shave off ceramic clay. I bought the stainless steel version.