Thread: Any coffee grinder collectors ?

I was curious if anyone here collects antique coffee grinders? I started with small ones. Arcade and spong. Now have double wheel mills. I can post pics if interested .

Used to; but they and the espresso machines lurked and smiled from every nook and shelf of my small dwelling place. They were lots cheaper than owning and flying small aircraft as a hobby. So i sold them and started accumulating razors and things that go with them...
Wonder why I ever thought the coffee equipment was taking up too much room!
~Richard

Lol. Razors are smaller but I would not say cheaper . Easy to have 300 razors. I also collect antiques kerosene lamps and heaters.

I think you'd have to be a really sick guy to collect coffee grinders.

I have 5 of them ...... like any normal person ..... .... 4 vintage Zassenhaus, and one modern Kitchen Aid electric.

Please don't ask about Hunter cast iron ceiling fans ............

Lol. Antique hunter fans?

I think I have 7 double wheel grinders. I just recently was luck to get a no 18 star coffee grinder. It's over 5 ft tall. Store model type. I heard they were just display but I highly doubt it. If true there would be more and in better shape if that was the case.

Funny you mention it. A coffee import guy just moved into town. I been seeing pallets of bags rolling into his warehouse and wondering. I have to get more bang for my buck than I am getting out of my everyday Starbucks habit. 12 cups of Mr. coffee then a Starbuck run everyday should afford me a better tasting habit. Although I would miss my Carmel Frapp for lunch. I suppose I could do without the sugar but if I quit drinking caffeine I would dehydrate and die in a week.

I had one when I lived out past the hydro lines. It was a while ago, I have no idea what it was or more importantly where it went. It was wall mounted with a crank handle and a little drawer that the grounds fell into. It was very fast. I miss it.

I would not say I collect them but i also have several old kerosene lamps, a couple were my great grand parents and the others were around from the same I was living past the hydro era.

It is always interesting to hear about an item you didn't really think about collecting before. I don't collect coffee grinders, or drink coffee for that matter. My parents have a really old wood grinder with the turn handle on top and a drawer in the bottom. I'm not sure if it is in working condition though.

Do you use any of them regularly, or are they just display pieces?

I use one regularly and restoring the others to useable condition

We had a small commercial, hand operated coffee grinder in the neighborhood grocery store that I grew up in in Chicago. Stopped using it once pre-ground coffee became readily available. Was still there, somewhere, in the store when my folks sold the store in 1956. Wish they had taken it with them 'cause I'd have it now (the only sentimental, old stuff lover in the family.)