What do we have here?

Well, I went out.

I went to Amazon as you do, and I bought five hand grinders.

And I thought they were a nice spread of what's available right now.

So we have the rhino coffee.

Dear little hand grinder.

We have the public's money.

We've got the classic, probably the best selling so cheap hand grinder all time, Which the Harry Oh, slim on Amazon, the top search came out for the Henry Charles hanging around that Never heard of that.

No idea what that WAAS.

So I picked that up, and then I also went and saw what was reparable in the U.

S.

Which is the Java press press, a press press, and I picked up one of those as well.

What I'm gonna do is break them down into various categories on award them scores on at the end, wrap up into what I would give as my recommendation of the best cheap hand grinder out there.

The sensible place to start would be price and the symphony prices here.

But that's Amazon for you.

So the rhino coffee gear was £31.64.

The Pall Ex relatively expensive at £57.

Now, I already owned this.

Harry s let Mrs Mine, but it would cost £28.89.

The was Henry Childs thing, like 25 99 on dhe, the Java press.

Because we're gonna call it the job of press that is £70 in the UK Now, here's an important thing I have to talk about right off the bat.

I bought these knowing they looked similar, but having had them turn up, they really do appear completely identical.

I suspect they're gonna do very similarly in testing.

So a little bit frustrating that they are so similar that they are basically the same.

I suspect exactly the same factory.

Put these out with just two different brands on them.

But that's what we've got.

That's what we're testing today.

And we're gonna take the best one of these forwards into the next review of hand grinders, which is the ultimate hand grinder, which is the very best hand grounder that money can buy.

Then we'll see how achieve grinder stacks up against the best in the world.

Point wise, uh, you know, more points for cheaper in this situation, so I think it would be 54 32 and one point over here.

Let's move into the next one of most important categories for me, which is build quality, starting with the rhino coffee gear.

It is well intentioned, but I would say a little bit sloppy in its execution in its built just feels a little cheap, and they've done things that a nice like like instead of just having the stainless steel slide onto another piece of stainless steel.

There are these little plastic insert points here, so this should fit nice and snugly.

However, down at the bottom here, this feels loose.

It just doesn't feel like it's a particularly good fit.

So if you know, this was a group at the top, but it feels very easy to split the grinder when you're holding it, and that just doesn't feel fantastic.

Stainless steel is most of them are mass Little rubber band, but but just a little bit sloppy.

And so one of the Paul X, which is pretty well built, to be honest, everything fits quite nicely This just is stainless steel onto stainless steel, but the parts fit well.

Same with the base.

It feels secure.

It goes in deep enough that it doesn't feel like it's gonna move around.

Overall.

Yeah, pretty, pretty, well built now the Harry Oh is unusual here because it is a plastic construction for better or worse, is different to the approach of the others.

It means this Chambers will see through.

This is a robust plastic.

I've traveled with these all around the world on a particular worry about damaging it.

But does it feel is nice a stainless steel?

Well, actually, to me, it kind of does.

Now, if you really prefer stainless steel, that's fine.

There's nothing particularly premium to me about that kind of brushed Amos deal.

There's nothing particularly premium about this kind of plastic.

It's well built.

It all fits together neatly.

This screws into place, I suppose, which is a nice aspect.

Instead of sliding or clicking on, it's much more secure.

It's built, but his plastic.

Now the Henry Charles Well, that's okay.

So bad it's light, So I particularly you know, it doesn't feel particularly strong.

There's a little plastic insert here.

I don't really know why.

I don't know why you put a window there, but we'll talk about that when it comes to usability.

Overall, Yeah, entirely fine.

You know, it doesn't feel expensive.

It doesn't feel like a particularly thick gauge, this little slighty.

I can't imagine it falling off, but it's not secure in that regard.

And to be honest, the Java press is identical in every single way.

So for that round, I'll award the Pollex five points.

The Harry Oh slim for the two identical the Henry Charles and the Java press.

I'll give them both three points on the rhino gear, I thought was just the sloppiest bill, so I'll just give that two.

One of the main reasons people buy these things is to travel with them.

I certainly had one in my luggage, is up, traveled around the world on Dhe, stayed in a B and B's and just wanted to make some coffee in the morning.

So how do they all do for portability and so bringing them all back for a second?

What?

We need to talk about size now.

This thing, the Runaways, is the biggest, which is pretty the least desirable in a portable grinder on the pole, X is by far the smallest.

Now the neat thing about the politics is that the rubber band comes with a place for you to store your crank handle, because otherwise that's just gonna float around freely, as it would do with every other grander right.

There's no way to put thes when you take them off.

You need to take them off for traveling, so that's a bit frustrating.

This rubber band is a nice little detail on the politics that really upsets portability again.

Plastic construction means I worry a lot less throwing this thing in a bag about what not only is hitting it, but what it might be hitting.

I don't really worry about damage that way, where I might worry a little bit more about throwing something stainless steel into a bag with other potentially fragile things.

I'm a sloppy and hurried packer of things.

I'll admit it.

These two, Yeah, fine, perfectly portable eso somewhere in the middle.

So probably the most points again.

The five Pollex.

I'll go a four for the slim three points apiece here and again, just two points to our friend the Rhino coffee grinder.

For the next part of testing, we're gonna do the obvious thing.

When a grind and brew some coffee, this will let us do both usability testing.

How did the field to use as well as taste testing?

End of that.

We're gonna grind it to different settings were grind.

Firstly to brew a 22 3 30 style pour over.

I'm gonna get a little finer and in for a faster brew time.

There's always an issue of uniformity and ham grounds, especially cheap hand grinders on going a little finer and faster.

By and large for me is a better way to get a better tasting brew than going coarser and dealing with the much, much, much larger pieces that come with that.

However, I do want to grind a bit coarser to see at what point the kind of grind distribution falls to pieces.

So now let's grind a lot of coffee.

So we brewed five cups of coffee, and in that time it's given me a chance to get my head around these grounds a little bit more.

From a usability perspective, there's a few things I want to talk about.

So let's start at the beginning.

Do Rhino.

It's Hopper holds around 30 grams of coffee, which isn't the biggest off them.

It's actually the second smallest off them.

The smallest, actually, is the Pall ex child, only about 25 grams, which actually might be an issue for me.

Now.

I would Bruin traveling up to 1/2 liter batch, so 30 grams to be 500.

This would frustrate me a 25 which is really kind of where it topped out.

However, I felt really nice to use the handles on.

All of them were fine.

The Harry Oh, hold up to about 40 grams of coffee in the top hopper on.

Actually, the shape with wider top makes it much, much, much easier to fill, which is a bonus.

However, when you are grinding, it can feel like the beads inside a kind of sloshing around in there, and you're just worrying that the beans are kind of funneling down the way that they would do with slimmer grinders.

There wasn't a massive issue and grind time, though.

Actually, I got stuck a few more times with Harry.

Oh, that was interesting to me.

These two here.

We'll talk about it if that one they both hold about 40 grams, too shape style.

Fine.

Now the bottom of these has the window.

I have no idea why you would put a window, and I get that with plastic.

It's plastic.

I can just see it.

And thats nice.

Why would I not make it see through its plastic?

But here, adding in another piece actually is kind of annoying one, because I don't need to see how much coffee is in there were.

If there's coffee in there, I'm gonna put all the coffee I need in the top, grind it and then use it so I don't get the point of a window.

But the way that it's constructed, when you got another breakable to something a little bit harder to clean, I'd rather just everything we stand this deal if it's gonna be stainless steel or everything, be plastic.

That's plastic, but also the way that it's mounted inside the service deal.

This is Ridge around the edge, and coffee was getting stuck in that little rich like find would accumulate there.

So all in all, I did not like the construction inside of that thing.

We look at them.

It looks like that old using a new identity kind of burger set, the birds look very, very similar in terms of their teeth configuration.

The cutting edge is the Harriers is a different color.

The rest of them are these kind of white ceramic ones.

This is a kind of grayish, darker ceramic color.

They all are stepped.

They will have clicky adjustments.

However, the rhinos steps were much smaller, so you could be more precise with this one.

The rest of them were really pretty similar and then approved them.

It's like I said 20 grams to about 333 of water in the top, so 60 grams per liter is a ratio.

All of them brood on drew down in a very similar time that the Harry Oh was a little bit quicker.

Which is interesting, said wondered if I was grinding finer on it because I got caught a few more times.

I got like, a little bit stuck grinding a couple more times on the Harry.

Oh, I wonder if that's because I was going fine, but actually, it drew down five or 10 seconds quicker.

These have all been sitting, cooling down, getting ready for me to taste on DDE.

I'm gonna be tasting for a couple of things.

Obviously, I wanted to be good coffee that's coming out of these things, but I'm reconsidering uniformity of grounds, right?

As on uneven extraction from very different particle sizes would manifest in both unpleasant bitterness as well as unpleasant salis.

So the very tiny pieces you might get would contribute on the bitterness, the very cause.

Bouldering pieces will make the brew taste extra sour.

They all brooding over a similar time.

As I said, S o, we should have relatively matching cups.

Same bloom, same total poor time.

One of those kind of things were consistent.

So now it's time to taste.

So I'll say now the range between the best and the worst isn't huge.

Not shocking is the price Range isn't isn't particularly wide in these things, but but the worst to the best.

Not an enormous gap.

All of these coffees are okay.

Nothing is like, wow, nothing is undrinkable, terrible or hugely problematic.

These have a sort of saori nous from from you know, it tastes like there a few more kind of bigger pieces that didn't really play the game as much.

This is This is just a little weaker, just a little less extracted than the others.

So it would stand to reason that actually, I was maybe a touch course than I thought it was on this.

It doesn't have that a budget was okay and that a bunch of it was really Course it has.

Everything was GS to little course on.

Actually finding it up would make it okay like a good, decent cup of coffee thes the best two cups for me.

I'm aware that tasting this manner is deeply, deeply unscientific and not particularly good, especially when they taste as close as they do.

They're really, really very, very similar cups.

I might say this and then you could switch the cups around it.

I might say that really know much in it.

Both decent, quite sweet.

Not too much sort of soundness, really.

Not too much bitterness, either.

Does it compare to an e K 43?

Does it compare to even the wealthy uniform?

No, you can definitely tell is a spread of particle sizes that is somewhat inevitable with cheaper hang grounders This is where the better coffees were.

This was sort of in the middle.

And then this.

These two, this granite, that kind of the same thing, right?

It was the least tasty off them for me.

I would be happy to travel with these.

I'm certainly happy to travel with this or have been in the past the's more.

No, not quite as much.