Coffee Mills

Coffee mills are of two styles. One antique style is a square, wooden, box-like mill with an opening in the top of the grinder for putting in the coffee. These have a drawer at the bottom into which the ground coffee falls.

The other style has a container, usually of glass, though sometimes of wood and glass, for storing the coffee and feeding it between the cutting knives. The cover must fit tightly to preserve the aroma of the coffee. The receptacle into which the ground coffee falls is sometimes marked with a graduated measuring scale.

In both styles of grinders the cutting knives may be regulated to produce pulverized coffee for drip coffee pots, medium fine for percolators, and coarse for boilers.