La Pavoni La Moka Burr Grinders

by La Pavoni

Product Features

• 120-watt grinder with steel burrs for producing freshly ground coffee
• Large 8-4/5-ounce bean hopper with seal-tight lid; 9 grind settings
• 2- to 12-cup auto dial setting; adjusts to espresso, coarse, and drip settings
• Durable ABS shock-resistant plastic housing; on/off switch with auto start
• Measures 6 by 5 by 10 inches; 2-year motor warranty

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016O7MVY
• Item model number: PA-8801B
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,787 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Color: Black

Amazon.com Product Description

Housed in durable ABS shock-resistant plastic, this grinder with steel burrs works great for producing freshly ground coffee. The unit provides a large 8-4/5-ounce bean hopper with a seal-tight lid, and its nine grind settings range from French press coarse to espresso fine. In addition, the unit automatically dials-in the exact amount of coffee required, from 2 to 12 cups, and adjusts to espresso, coarse, and drip settings. It also introduces beans to the grinding chamber a few at a time to ensure a consistent, even grind. Other highlights include an on/off switch with auto start, raised feet, and an ETL safety listing. It's not suitable, however, for Turkish grinds or lever machines. The 120-watt grinder measures 6 by 5 by 10 inches and carries a two-year warranty on the motor.

Product Description

The La Pavoni La Moka Burr Grinder introduces beans to the grinding chamber a few at a time ensuring a consistent, even grind. La Pavoni grinders automatically dial-in the exact amount of coffee required, from 2 to 12 cups and adjust to espresso, coarse and drip settings.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Decent grind, but awkward design., March 9, 2009

By 

Alan (Florida, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Pavoni La Moka Burr Grinders (Kitchen)

Cheap, grinds adequately. The moniker "La Moka" should've clued me in that this was a mediocre manufacturer's lame attempt to make a coffee grinder sound hip or trendy.

It grinds fairly well, but the two-piece plastic hopper for the grounds is awkward and tends to fall apart easily, spraying grounds all over the counter and the machine itself.

Also the dial used to select coarseness can be confusing. 9 is for coarse, 1 is for fine, but there is a left arrow ( <- ) and a right arrow ( -> ) each pointing away from the number, so that if you move the dial all the way to the right, you think you're choosing FINE since the word fine is at the right, but in actuality you're choosing COARSE even though it's on the opposite side. The fine grind is pretty fine, but coarse really isn't, there doesn't seem to be much difference between coarse and fine with this grinder despite your selection.

I regret this purchase.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars When it worked, it was bad. Then it stopped working, January 20, 2010

By 

C. Yost - See all my reviews
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This review is from: La Pavoni La Moka Burr Grinders (Kitchen)

I have two burr grinders, a Starbucks grinder, and this one. I like my Starbucks one okay, but the La Pavoni was terribly inconvenient. I didn't know you could design something quite so bad. Not to mention, a month after buying it it stopped working. Timer goes, but no grinding.

So, when it did work why was it bad? The receptacle for the grinds won't come out without some force, which spills grinds everywhere. Then, you have to take off the lid for it, which gets grinds everywhere. Finally, it's not well shaped so when you pour it into your coffee maker or french press, it gets grinds everywhere.

I only write reviews when I love or hate products (I know, I should write more), and this one I would NOT recommend.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Quality, Misleadingly Marketed, October 10, 2009

By 

Matt (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Pavoni La Moka Burr Grinders (Kitchen)

The box says "9 grind settings". In the manual, it says "This model grinder is not recommended for very fine grinding however it will handle many types of coffee specifications" (i.e., it has 9 grind settings and we know very well that some of them don't actually work, but we'd lose a lot of money scrapping the design and starting over). I guess it could do percolator, and it might manage a French press, but I haven't seen it grind anything evenly so I would count on getting sediment. It's serviceable for drip, I guess, if you don't mind knowing that the pebble-sized hunks are being wasted and you could have gotten better results with a blade grinder at half the price and a millionth the headache trying to clean. Everything you hear about how burr grinders are better is true - just not about this one.

Edit:

The second day I was trying to use it, I discovered that the problem I'd had with the top burr staying in place wasn't my inexperience - it was unscrewing itself in the course of normal operation. It can't grind 3 tbsp of beans in a row for any purpose. I started to throw it in the garbage, but decided I'd crack it open and see if I found a DC/AC converter and a motor that could be repurposed.

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