Capresso Infinity Burr Grinder Review

As one of Capresso’s best-selling coffee grinder, the Infinity Conical Burr Grinder is quite a popular option for anyone starting to get more serious about your coffee by grinding your own coffee ground. In this review, we hope to be able to help you find out if this is the ideal coffee grinder for your needs.

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The Capresso Infinity Burr Grinder

The Infinity Conical Grinder from Capresso offers the ability to select the consistency of your ground coffee from a fine Turkish to coarse French. It comes with computer-controlled grinding heads that follow the shapes and angles of steel burrs to give you precise cuts. Inside is a multiple-gear motor that is capable of producing the slowest grinding movement at <450 rpm to provide the best precision grinding. This Capresso grinder is also one of the lowest noise models. 

Pros
  • With commercial-grade conical steel burrs for extremely-precise grinding.
  • Large grinding capacity
  • Wide grinding range for better customisation
  • With reduced noise and static.
  • With slowest grinding speeds to reduce friction and heat to preserve coffee’s aroma and flavor.
Cons
  • Its plastic body parts within the machine may not be as durable in the long run.

Features and Benefits 

Precise Grinding – The Infinity is a conical grinder with a wide variety of options when grinding coffee beans. You can choose from 16 settings; these settings are marked into categories: fine, extra-fine, coarse, and regular. This allows fine-tuning your coffee to grind finely for making Turkish coffee or very coarse for a French press.

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Ease of use and Maintenance – Operating this grinder is as easy as simply choosing the consistency of your coffee (extra-fine, fine, coarse, and regular, and turning the timer dial. The coffee grounds will come out at the convenient bin located at the front of the grinder ready to be brewed. This grinder is also one of the easiest to clean as its many components can be removed for maintenance. Just remove the upper burr and use a brush that came with the grinder to remove coffee bits.

Maximum Flavor – This grinder comes with a new gear reduction motor that operates in a manner that reduces friction and heat. This way, the coffee’s natural flavors and aromas are carefully preserved.

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High Capacity – As a commercial burr grinder, the Infinity has large-capacity coffee beans and ground coffee containers. Its removable coffee bean container holds up to 8.8 ounces of beans while the ground coffee container can hold up to 4 ounces.


Alternatives

Here are 3 grinders often compared with the Capresso Infinity Burr Grinder, let’s see how they compare.

Cheffano Electric Burr Coffee Grinder

The Cheffano Electric Burr Coffee Grinder is a fully automatic coffee grinder that comes with a powerful 150W motor for efficient and consistent coffee grounds grinding. It has 17 grinder settings to customise the size of the grounds, from fine, medium, to coarse grinds.

Its large hopper capacity can hold enough coffee beans that makes up to 12 cups of coffee. The stainless steel body is corrosion resistant and features a one-touch operation.


KRUPS GX420851 Coffee Grinder

The KRUPS Coffee Grinder comes with an easy interface that provides a large grinding range of 38 grind settings. Its large-capacity 14 oz (400g) coffee bean hopper can accommodate an entire bag of coffee beans.

The hopper is easy to remove for cleaning, maintenance and easy transfer of beans. We love the stainless steel body with the black outline exterior which makes this grinder look pretty sleek. 


Keenstone Coffee Grinder 

The Keenstone electric coffee grinder is another grinder that packs a strong 150W motor and features 304 stainless steel blades that are able to grind quality and fine powders within 30 seconds. On top of coffee beans, it’s also strong enough to grind various spices, nuts, grains, herbs and more. Just note to NOT grind anything harder than coffee beans so as not to damage the blades.

It can hold 2.5 oz (70g) of beans that’s about 10 cups of coffee and the grinder is able to detect whether the lid is placed correctly before operating. This helps prevent spilling of dust which results in unnecessary cleaning. 


Conclusion

The Capresso Infinity Burr Grinder is a commercial-grade grinder that comes with solid steel conical blades equipped with an advanced design. It produces consistent coffee grounds that range from ultra-fine to coarse.

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If you are looking for a heavy duty coffee grinder that is straight-forward to use, has a good grinding range and easy to clean, this might be the grinder for you. Check the latest price here.