How the fuck I missed this thread, I'll never know.
My shitty blade grinder broke (and by broke I mean my wife used it on whole cloves and now it's fucking ruined), so I bought a Cuisinart Burr Grinder for $35 from Amazon. How badly did I fuck up that purchase?
I'm mainly brewing pourovers via a Hairo or Chemex.
since it's a disc grinder (uses two flat discs) and not a conical burr grinder (picture two funnels) you'll get the "flakey" grinds (i'll look like dandruff and not uniform like salt). Also you'll get old grinds since flat grinders leave 1/2oz in the discs, (which is why ppl always try to get a conical grinder if possible) which could change your flavor profile.
However you've been using a blade grinder... so it'll be better than that, however you're not gonna like the bin that holds the coffee, it'll get messy with grinds everywhere, you'll need to constantly wipe your countertop and/or put some tray underneath the grinder.
This is all just prep tho, it'll be annoying only later on, firstly you'll relish in the fact that you can have unattended grinding.
I'd still recommend the bodom as the good fairly priced option, clean up is minimal with the glass jar and it's a conical grinder too, you can ask Ms. Gravy how it's working for her.
However being that you have a Chemex, i'm surprised you don't have a manual burr grinder, i've linked the metal kind i get for like 8bucks.
Actually the internals are entirely a direct copy of the hario slim grinder, since i just repurposed a piece of plastic from my old hario slim, at 1/3 the price of a hario slim you should have at least one.
Also, i have 1 specifically for pepper and another for spices, you could get your wife one for the spices she can use to grind, rather than use a cruddy blade grinder. Why do i use a coffee grinder for peppercorns and spices? you have near infinite settings and you can get down to espresso fine with these grinders, while a basic pepper grinder will give you big chucks of pepper, try it, it's only like 8bucks.
