Baratza

Replace the burr, not the machine — a coffee grinder (Baratza, 1Zpresso)

The first kitchen appliance on the shelf, and the rare one built to be opened: the burr coffee grinder. We weigh Baratza (Washington State, founded in the late 1990s) against the hand grinders that have no motor to fail, set the roughly $14-a-year floor in the series ledger beside the skillet's $1.30, the kettle's sub-$100, the wok's ~$3.70, and the Dutch oven's $7.50, and answer the question the closed five-tool spine left open — whether a motorized tool can join a shelf built for things made to be repaired. The one appliance whose wear part is a cheap component you swap, while the machine around it stays.

• ·kitchen tools
• ·burr grinder
• ·coffee grinder
• ·Baratza

• Durable
• Honest
• Future
• Less