Korean Job Discussion Forums

meinkorea · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:04 am Post subject: finding a coffee grinder...

this is getting comical: every coffee shop sells whole beans, but for whatever reason, i cannot find an electric coffee grinder to save my life... any coffee fiends here care to share the secret location of the place that sells coffee grinders? am in incheon, but will go to seoul to get the damned thing if i have to...

help!

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Starbucks.

Namdaemun.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Starbucks have a very nice but very expensive electric grinder. I think it was over 100,000.

I bought a neat little hand-grinder machine in the basement of Hyundai dept. store, Gangnam. for 20,000. It works great and is really building up my forearm muscles!!!

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

I got my electric one at yongsan for 29,000

dreamscape · Joined: 05 Aug 2004

I had the same problem, ended up settling for a manual grinder. Confused

desultude · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:27 am Post subject:

Ah, yes, I finally found a neat steel blender that ate up the beans nicely- but it took a while to find it.

What about pepper grinders? I have never seen a one here. My sister gave me a Peugeot pepper grinder (yes, the Peugeot, as in the car) for Christmas, and it is now my new most treasured possession.

fireset · Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Location: Gangnam

A blender should do the trick. You can get cheap ones for around 20,000 won and they should come with an attachment..smaller type blades.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

desultude · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:34 am Post subject:

I got a HANIL Primaire food mixer, intended for a blender. Its steel with steel blades. I bought it for a blender, but it made a better coffee grinder-actually better than most of the old grinders I had in the States. I got it at Emart.

Of course, there is that godawfully expensive number at Starbucks, but I couldn't pay the extortionary price.

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

You got a Wal-Mart nearby? I've seen grinders there.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

The place I buy whole bean coffee has a grinder & they do it as you wait.

Takes me back to my childhood in Canada when the coffee aisle in any self-respecting supermarket had an easy-to-use electric grinder right there. Sadly, it seems, a thing of the past.

buddymac · Joined: 29 Sep 2004

Check out CJ home shopping. I buy most of my stuff there. Really cheap and they are helpful if you have to return blah blah blah.

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

Some blenders here also come with a coffee grinder attachment. What I use.

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

I bought a new Philips blender, and one of the attachments that came with it was a grinder, which will do coffee, along with many other things.
Haven't used the grinder, as I buy my coffee at one of the major department stores who will grind it as you wait.

missym · Joined: 04 Jan 2005

AT MY EMART IN JEONJU THEY HAVE A GRINDER IN THE AISLE RIGHT NEXT TO THE COFFEE......YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF!!!! JUST LIKE BACK HOME!!!! I'M SURE OTHER EMARTS WOULD TOO..?