Around $230
- Burrs
- 54 mm flat
- Settings
- Stepless
- Espresso
- Yes
- Holds
- 20 g
Why we love it
The DF54 is the grinder for someone who weighs their beans and wants every gram of them in the basket. You drop in one dose, grind, and the 54mm stainless flat burrs (the style café grinders use, where most grinders at this price use conical burrs) send it out through a chute with an ionizer that kills the static, so grounds don't cling and the listing's retention figure is under 0.1 g. A disc above the burrs stops beans popping back up mid-grind, and a bellows on top blows out what's left. The dial is stepless, so you can land exactly between two settings when a shot runs a second fast. It grinds into a 58mm dosing cup that sits on the portafilter rest, which makes it a natural match for a 58mm machine like the Gaggia Classic Pro, and the cup works with any basket size. On Amazon it's sold as the MiiCoffee DF54.
Pros
- 54mm flat burrs, uncommon at this price
- Stepless dial, so you can set it between any two points when dialing in
- Retention under 0.1 g, with an ionizer and a bellows to clear the chute
- Grinds into an included 58mm dosing cup, so any portafilter size works
Cons
- No hopper: it holds about 20 g at a time, so you weigh every dose
- The stepless dial has no numbered settings to return to; switching between espresso and filter means finding the spot again
- The dosing cup is plastic
