We purchased our first bag of coffee beans a while back, from Hawaii. We purchased a hand held grinder (finger touch type) and ground enough beans different a few cups of coffee. He did this wonderful, and also the coffee tasted fantastic. Contain strong thing was that exercising . learned that coffee grinders can be messy, very loud for the early morning grind, and loose their power over days. We also see them a mess to clean up, with coffee grounds in the gears and stuck inside the holding container that you incurred to scoop manually out and of course, some fall within the floor and counter number one. So the search began to buy good coffee grinder, that lasts a time, can grind coffee in various stages, for other filters, is stand alone, not messy, and quiet and will not loose its power over time.