Espresso Grinders Compared: Six Grinders From Hand to Single-Dose

Six espresso grinders compared from their makers' specs: burrs, how finely each adjusts and how it doses, with what our April 2026 video found and where to find each maker's espresso setting.

By Jay Arr Updated

For our April 2026 video, we ran five grinders on the same espresso machine, with the same coffee and the same extraction targets, and the cheapest of the five, the 1Zpresso JX-Pro S hand grinder, outperformed the Fellow Opus, the electric closest to it in price. The video walks through each grinder; the text below works from each maker’s published specs and from published measurements.

Our grinder science post makes the case for spending on the grinder before the machine; this page compares specific grinders.

Six grinders, by their makers’ specs

Each grinder’s name links to its maker’s page or manual, checked October 15, 2026. The specs are as published by the maker.

GrinderBurrs; adjustmentDosing
1Zpresso JX-Pro S48 mm (the JX’s burr); 12.5 µm per click, 40 per turnHand grinder, 30–35 g
Fellow Opus40 mm stainless steel conical; 41 settings plus an inner ringTimed stops, 30 s to 2 min
Baratza Sette 27040 mm conical (S1); macro steps plus a stepless micro ringTimer, to 0.1 s
Turin DF64 Gen 2.764 mm flat, steel or Red Titanium; stepless collarSingle-dose, about 50 g
Eureka Mignon Silenzio 5555 mm flat, hardened steel; steplessTimer; 300 g hopper
Niche Zero63 mm conical; stepless dialSingle-dose

The grinders in more detail

1Zpresso JX-Pro S

1Zpresso says the JX-Pro “is suitable for both pour-over and espresso”, and that its 12.5-micron adjustment “makes finding the espresso sweet spot easy”. The S version adds a folding handle. 1Zpresso’s chart puts espresso at 12–16 on the dial, counting 10 numbers to a turn from a zero where “the handle starts to spin with resistance”. It’s a hand grinder, so you crank every dose.

Fellow Opus

Fellow’s guide for the original Opus puts espresso between 1 and 2 on its outer ring. On the ring’s quarter steps that’s five positions (calculated), and Fellow suggests the inner ring for finer espresso adjustments. Fellow now sells the Opus 2, with 48 mm conical burrs and a stepless dial; the row above is the original.

Baratza Sette 270

Baratza pairs macro steps with a stepless micro ring for what it calls “270 pinpoint grind sizes”, and the timer doses to a tenth of a second. Its no-chute design drops the grounds straight from the grind chamber into the portafilter. Baratza includes shims to customize the grind range, and says it grinds “anything from espresso to single-cup pour overs”.

Turin DF64 Gen 2.7

An earlier version of this page covered the DF64 Gen 2.5; Turin’s current listing is the Gen 2.7, with a revised chute and ion-generator probes to cut static. It has 64 mm flat burrs, a stepless collar and a fixed-speed 250 W motor, and Turin says its burrs cover espresso and filter.

Turin offers SSP aftermarket burrs separately and notes that they “require installation and alignment”. Our burr alignment guide covers what that involves, including Turin’s own view that alignment isn’t needed in most cases. For light roasts at fine settings, Turin suggests switching the grinder on and pouring the beans in slowly.

Eureka Mignon Silenzio 55

The Silenzio 55 has 55 mm flat burrs of hardened steel, which Eureka rates at a 300 kg lifespan, and a stepless adjustment that moves the lower burr, so you can do maintenance without losing your setting. Eureka rates the burrs for “All Purpose” use, with output figures for both espresso and brew. It weighs 5.6 kg, and Eureka’s Silent Technology uses an anti-vibration system to cut grinding noise.

Niche Zero

The Niche Zero has 63 mm conical burrs and a stepless dial, and Niche lists its noise at 72 dB while grinding. Niche advertises “zero retention”; in Gagné’s 2021 espresso comparison, his Niche Zero retained an average of 0.18 ± 0.04 g. Niche’s own guide puts espresso between 5 and 20 on the dial. It sells direct from Niche’s site, with a US plug option.

What separates espresso grinders

Four things come up again and again in the published work:

Flat versus conical matters less than the labels suggest. In the same analysis, conical burrs were on average less even, but the overlap was large: a specific flat burr can easily be less even than a specific conical one. Our conical vs flat burr grinders post goes further.

Finding your espresso setting

Each maker’s number only means something on its own grinder. Two published starting points for espresso:

Fellow’s chart puts the Opus between 1 and 2. Turin’s and Eureka’s product pages give no espresso setting for these models.

Then dial in by taste and time; our espresso dial-in guide walks through it.

Where to buy

1Zpresso, Turin and Niche sell from their own sites. For the Sette 270, this Amazon search names the exact model: Baratza Sette 270 (Amazon search).

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Sources

Makers’ pages and manuals were checked on October 15, 2026.

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