I looked over the other reviews here, and they are generally positive. It is true that this is a nice machine because; one, it is not messy; two, it is not too loud; three, you can grind without having to stand there holding down a button; and four, it does hold a fair amount of beans. That said, I gave this grinder a poor score because its FUNDAMENTAL purpose is to grind the beans. In other words, I weighted this purpose as being extremely important. And so, the poor score because even on the finest setting I cannot get an espresso grind! I cannot imagine what grind you would get on coarse.. would the whole beans just come out whole? Maybe it works in reverse and grinds would come out whole again--that's how bad this thing is. You would never have to worry about it clogging and overheating, I guess....A waste of money if you want fine grind. I had a krups--going back to Krups.