Rhino Coffee Gear Compact Hand Grinder

The Rhino Coffee Gear (formerly known as Rhinowares?) Compact Hand Grinder is similar in style to the popular Porlex Mini Hand Grinder.

This compact version is great for travel and holds around 21 - 23 grams of coffee beans.

There is a bigger version available with slightly larger burrs.

It is well suited for use with an AeroPress, because it comes with a special plastic attachment, allowing you to grind your coffee directly into the AeroPress. If you want to pack the two together, the stainless steel body of the grinder will fit snuggly inside the AeroPress.

It also works great for other coffee makers too.

The grinder comes with a stainless steel catchment area. After grinding by hand, detach and pour out your ground coffee grinds.

Internally it uses conical ceramic burrs. There is a adjustment screw on the bottom for dialling in the coffee grind size you need.

The adjustment nut can be removed to dismantle the grinder parts for easy cleaning. It is a good idea to clean the grinder every 4 weeks, or perhaps earlier if you have particularly oily roasts.

Grind Settings

Rhino Coffee Gear recommend these starter settings. Start by fully tightening the nut, then:

AeroPress: Back off half a turn.

French Press: Back off 1.5 turns.

V60: Back off approximately 0.5 turns.

Moka Pot: Grind setting should be between drip and espresso setting. Adjust burrs to touching and back off a notch or two.

We found the handle grinds without coming off easily during use. Although after about a year of use, the plastic on top of the handle did break. This has not stopped it working and the handle remains on while grinding.

Look for the updated Version 2 of the Rhino Coffee Gear Compact Hand Grinder.