- Grinds up to 24 ounces of coffee at one time
- Four settings: extra-fine, fine, medium, or coarse
- Grinds fall into removable container for easy pouring
- Hand wash removable plastic bin; wipe exterior with damp cloth
- 11-1/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide
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Grind as little or as much coffee as you need with this deluxe coffee grinder. Only need a couple of tablespoons? Place 2 tablespoons of coffee beans in the top bin, choose your type of grind--extra-fine for espresso, fine or medium for drip coffee, or coarse for percolator or press--and switch the timer to the number 2. Your coffee beans will be ground to your exact specifications and deposited into a bin below with tablespoon amounts printed on the side. You can grind as little as 2 tablespoons or as much as 24 tablespoons at one time. Just pull the bottom bin straight out, remove the lid, and dump the ground coffee into your coffee or espresso maker. To clean, hand wash the removable bin and wipe the exterior with a damp cloth. --Doree Armstrong
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60 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Coffee and Value for the dollar.,
By A Customer
This review is from: DeLonghi DCG4T Deluxe Burr Coffee Grinder with Timer (Kitchen)
Looking to upgrade from an old Braun blade grinder to a burr grinder, I found this DeLonghi up to the task. I grind mostly for drip, but have used it to make an occasional cappacino as well.I would have given it 5 stars, but it could use a few amenities, which no doubt would raise the price. Since I'm not fully functional until I've had my morning coffee, I started grinding without the catch container in place. The result was ground coffee sprayed over the counter. An emergency stop or a sensor disabling the grinder when the catch container is not in place would protect me from my mental lapses. Someplace to hold a long stemmed spoon (to scoop out the ground coffee) would be convenient. Note that some appliances (rice cookers) have spoon and spatula holders. Finally, the bean dispenser cannot be detached from the unit. Admittedly, it does not need to be cleaned often, but it would be a nice feature. Overall, this unit is easy to use, has good capacity, grinds consistently, and gives good value for the price.
45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Jump-start My Heart!,
By Barrie Trinkle (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DeLonghi DCG4T Deluxe Burr Coffee Grinder with Timer (Kitchen)
I replaced an old, sluggish Krups grinder with this very nice product, which offers both a range of grinds (the "espresso" and "drip" settings both work very well, but they're the only ones I've used) and a "timer," which, as another reviewer remarked, is misnamed, but it's actually much more useful to have the grinder output a set amount rather than to grind for a set period of time. It grinds very quickly and evenly.The only reason I give this 4 stars instead of 5 is that the freshly-ground coffee, which tends to be staticky from grinding, sticks to the inside of the plastic container. But my old Krups had the same problem, as do most plastic grinders.
37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
After 8 years, rest in peace,
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This review is from: DeLonghi DCG4T Deluxe Burr Coffee Grinder with Timer (Kitchen)
March 2, 2009: RIP
I know this grinder is not in stock and probably discontinued, but cannot resist adding this final note. After eight years of use, my spouse noticed this morning that ground coffee was coming out the ventilation opening on the bottom of the machine. She started shaking the grinder a bit, and more coffee came out. Since it had seemed noisier lately, I decided to take the DeLonghi apart and give it a thorough cleaning. Well...close to a POUND of ground coffee was filling up every empty space in the housing! Tap, brush, and grind produced more and more grounds. It got comical after a while. We had been going through more bean coffee lately, and I should have paid attention to my intuition about that. I reassembled the machine, and sorry to say, almost no coffee was ejected into the grinds cup. It appears that a critical seal failed, and now my DeLonghi is hoarding all the grinds for itself. It may have been so full up that it was producing close to normal levels of grinds -- until I cleaned it. After such a long period of time and over 3,000 pots of coffee, I don't think this grinder owes me anything. Here's hoping I can find a suitable replacement. [[It's worth losing 35 "helpful" votes to add a follow-up to my original review: After three years, the only thing that has changed is that the grinds container has cracked. This affects, slightly, how the container fits into the grinder, but does not seem to affect the operation, which is still as described below. I can still recommend this workhorse after over one thousand cycles of use.]] My last coffee grinder was also a burr grinder with an electronic timer -- I got it free as a reject from a tag sale and used it for nearly a year. It ground coffee pretty well but the timer was grossly inaccurate. This DeLonghi seems to have the same general mechanism, but it does a better job with the core task of grinding. The grinder itself is much quieter than my previous machine ... there is hardly any motor sound and the grinding itself sounds almost like a chattering buzz. The manufacturer did a good job of insulating the motor from the housing to reduce noise. The grinds fall into the hopper at room temperature, as they should from a burr grinder. The resulting coffee was darker in tone, and tasted slightly richer for the same amount (by measurement) and approximately the same coarseness as the old machine. I especially liked that the machine comes apart easily -- the top storage hopper screws off and can be washed (the top grinder is attached to the hopper). This also gives easy access to the bottom grinder, which can be brushed clean. The timer is a little hard to set, but seems accurate in comparison with the old machine. This grinder is a bargain. I recommend it whole-heartedly.
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