Crusinart Grinder

[garyscottadamson]

I recently invested in a Crusinart Burr grinder.

My cafetiere recently broke so I steeped some very coarsly ground coffee in a cup and poured it through a sieve. Everything seemed to be finem as if the seive had collected all the coffee grounds.

Finishing my drink, I found an awful lot of sludge (maybe 4-5 tablespoons) at the bottom of the cup indicating that some coffee grounds had come through the seive. The grounds looked to be on the esspresso side of grind size.

Being a burr grinder, all the coffee should either go through the sieve or none at a all, as it is my understanding that a burr grinder is meant to grind uniform particles.

Does this mean that the grinder I have purchased isn't a burr grinder?

 

[CCafe]

Unfortunately that grinder doesn't make the most consistent grind. I know I own one too. I have found that it usually will plaster extremely fine grinds in the corner of the plastic hopper and the rest tend to be ground properly.