I bought myself a coffee grinder.

For me, it's a pretty fancy, new coffee grinder - an advance on modern science.

For all my coffee drinking years I have been buying the beans already ground at the grocery store or getting them ground for me at the specialty coffee shops and coffee roasters. This means I only have freshly ground beans the first day or so.

I don't know if I am such a coffee snob that I taste a huge difference. But, I like not having to get the beans ground. More than that, I really like not having to look for beans which are already ground, being limited to pre-ground beans and passing up the whole beans when I find them.

Grinds the coffee fine or coarse to suit you.

I used the coffee grinder for the first time today. I had a fresh bag of coffee beans from an Ontario coffee roaster. I had been waiting to open that bag until I ran out of the last of my old coffee, pre-ground. So this morning was a special day in coffee making for me. The coffee is great, the grinder worked exactly the way it said it would and I'm now looking forward to my next cup of coffee!

This Melitta Burr Grinder gives the option to have the grinds coarse or fine. Very much nicer than my Mother's plain coffee grinder which doesn't have any setting for fine or coarse grinds. My French press pot wants a coarsely ground coffee, so the setting is on 9, almost to the end of the dial.

No more extra coffee grinds between uses.

My new grinder will grind just the amount of beans I need too. I think this is so impressive! The whole point of having a coffee grinder is to use the beans when they are freshly ground. So, having too many ground and then sitting around defeats the point of grinding them really. But, not many of us would throw out the ground coffee just because we had extra. I won't have that dilemma.

I do have to check that I have enough beans in the grinder each time. I don't mind leaving some in the top for my next cup but I'm beginning to figure out how many whole beans I need for each amount of coffee I want to grind beans for. So far I am just making coffee for myself and the setting for 2 cups works best.

Coffee is a special treat, a replacement for the sweets I'm trying to get away from these days.

If you have never tried a coffee grinder I recommend this one by Melitta. It wasn't too expensive and it really does make the whole process of making the coffee seem special, like a real treat each time. Very nice right now as I am working on becoming healthier and sometimes I do miss those old sweet treats. Making a coffee has far less calories and yet can seem just as special, something I do just for myself too. My kitchen counter coffee set up.

Since buying the grinder about 3 or 4 months ago I have found it does get a build up of oil from the beans. So far I take care of it - just use a toothbrush to brush out the opening and remove the coffee there.