Tre Spade coffee grinder flywheel

Enjoy the aroma of fresh coffee as you grind the beans using the flywheel. Connoisseurs agree that freshly ground coffee tastes so much better if it is ground manually, not electronically. This beautiful old Italian device transforms an unpopular chore into a pleasure. It is also extremely attractive: the body , flywheel and cogs are cast iron, the mill forged steel, and the crank handle and base are beech. The mill can be adjusted from fine, for espresso, to coarse, for filter coffee.

If there is anything to be learned from the coffee machine boom in the recent past (aside from the fact that the maintenance per annum for an automatic machine will easily run a third of what is costs to buy a new one), it’s this: What you taste in the cup depends on the bean, but the interval between grinding and brewing is also decisive. The oils responsible for the taste and aroma are not particularly stable. As soon as the roasted bean is crushed in the form of ground coffee, it rapidly loses body and taste. Regardless of how it is brewed, a coffee mill is a must.

For decades that cheerful raspy grinding noise has been the signal that the Sunday coffee is on the way. But our grinders are not "retro". They are for those people who drink coffee in moderation (or, who want to moderate their consumption). The result is good and they operate very smoothly. They are in fact simple, comprehensible, sturdy machines, every last screw of which is available as a replacement part, not that the need for one will often arise.