Manufacturer's Description
Blade or Burr - capturing Aroma...
If roasting coffee beans is an art, then turning them into perfect ground coffee is a science. If the grind is too coarse the coffee will brew too slowly, and flavours will not fully develop, if it's too fine the coffee will lack aroma and tend towards bitterness. Too much grinding is as bad as too little for perfect coffee only 'just right' will do. Different coffee machines work best with different grind sizes so what works well in a cafetiere will produce dreadful coffee in an espresso machine. Coffee can be ground with either a blade (chopped) or a burr (crushed).
Blade grinders chop and re-chop each bean turning them into thousands of unevenly sized coffee fragments. The longer you chop the finer the blend becomes, but no matter how careful you are some of the coffee will be over ground and some will be under ground: so the coffee will never be as good as the beans you started with.
Coffee Beans: All of today's coffee beans come from just two varieties of coffee plant; Robusta and Arabica - the mix giving the quality, flavour and strength (caffeine content) of the coffee. the beans are taken and roasted, developing the flavour and aroma of the coffee - the longer they are roasted, the darker and more aromatic the beans become.
Krups for the true coffee lover - Krups began its journey towards perfect coffee back in 1846 as 'a brand dedicated to precision and technical perfection'. These high ideals were not enough for Robert Krups the founder, who insisted this would not be some future objective but a 'firm promise'. The company's first products immediately won widespread admiration for their quality, far sighted design and technical refinement.
In 1961 Krups turned its attention to making the best electric coffee grinder, revolutionising the quality of home ground coffee. Krups now makes arguably the best range of Espresso machines in the world from modest easy to use machines for novices, to fully automatic bean to cup machines for coffee connoisseurs.