Premium Cast Iron Manual Corn Grinder with Table Clamp - Molino de Maiz for Soybean, Grains, Nuts & Multigrain - Ideal for Home Kitchen, Camping & Emergency Food Prep

I am downgrading my review on this as I've run into two problems with this way too early on. (this is my original 5-star review: Perfect for me! I have been using a Melitta and paper filters for years! I don't know why I didn't think to look for one of these sooner, but I'm glad I finally did. I love this and plan to take it with me to Europe this summer, and for all future travel!)I did take this with me to Europe and loved it at first. But it wasn't long before the little rubber handle fell off; after like 2 or 3 uses. It wasn't a big deal -- I slid it back on and kept an eye on it for future uses. The adhesive that was used to secure it must have not been able to withstand the heat of steamed water being poured into the unit.But the real issue for me was that it started draining slower and slower until it stopped completely after about 2 weeks of use. I don't know if it was sediment in the water (though the tap water where we were staying was virtually crystal clear), or oils from the coffee itself. But something has clogged the the tiny holes in the bottom of the cone, and they weren't easy to clean. I tried a toothbrush and a straight pin, and ended up having to purchase denture cleaning tablets to get functional, and it still wasn't back to normal.I would highly recommend using bottled water with this thing, as that may have been the issue for me. But I am just not going to mess with it anymore. It's back to my trusty Melitta coffee single-cup cone and filters for me.This isn't a bad product. But it's not what I was hoping for. I drink a mug of coffee, not a cup, and the funnel doesn't hold that much, so I stand there and dribble hot water slowly into the funnel until I've made a mug. It seems to run through very quickly, so there isn't much time for the coffee to steep in the hot water; I think I'd use less coffee grounds if it was slower. I also notice that the coffee grounds float to the top of the water as you pour it in; they collect high on the sides of the funnel. So as the cone drains, most of your coffee is stuck to the cone above the level of the remaining water. Even though you start with boiling water, by the time it passes through the metal cone and into your mug, and you add a little milk, it's cooled enough that I have to microwave it again. I've tried rinsing my mug with hot water to warm it up, but that isn't enough.This was the first simple, single cup dripper I bought. I didn't want to use a machine to make one cup. This is probably as good and as bad as every other one of this basic cup-top funnel designs. It does clean easily. And yes, the little grip handle slips right off.I'll keep looking ... maybe I can find one large enough to pour in a mug's worth of water, with some way to keep the coffee grounds in the bottom of the funnel so the all the water filters through them. Plastic construction might be better than metal; it wouldn't cool the coffee as much.Suggestions, anyone?Manufacture-2: grinding product goes everywhere throughout due to numerous ill fitting connection points. This includes coming out where the crank attaches to the auger ( i.e the opposite direction the unground product is supposed to be moving. And, yes, I’m cranking the correct direction. Cranking the opposite direction immediately makes more come but it happens either way) as well as moving through parts that are purely structural and shouldn’t evere have food in them like the *inside* of the auger.-1: Similar ill-fitting connections means some unground products fall out of the hopper connection point before ever falling into the auger unless you macgeyver a seal with tape or something on the outside-3: Bizarre color, silver like the color of silver paint on cheap decorations. Cast iron is not this color. This color immediately rubs off of plates. And any part of the machine where there is friction.Function-2: Jams the first half hopper of multi grain with product oozing everywhere as mentioned above.-2: Secondary to above point pain in neck to clean.-2: Definitely putting metal in your food. This wouldn’t be so bad if I could believe it was pure cast iron. Also for people that attribute this to poor use, it was never metal on metal. One of the worst points wasn’t even the plantes but the rotation point at the base of the auger. This friction point left a graphite-like smear across my hands when I tried to clean it. This is pretty much where the grain lands when it falls in from the hopper. Since large grains and particulates can come out backwards through this point I am sure the much smaller metal shavings can move forward in the direction the auger is trying to force everything and come out in your ground product.Final score: Negative 9 —> 1This is my second pourover coffee cone. The first one did not have holes in the bottom of the cone and the coffee took for-ever to brew. This cone gives me a cup in about 3 minutes. I thought it would be coffee-colored water because it didn't sit long with the grounds but it is a fine cup of coffee. At work, I am now the only coffee drinker, and it seemed like a waste to make a pot then not have time/inclination to drink all I had made. Then there were those paper filters...We were running out and I went to Amazon - my first go-to - and as I was pricing filters I found this dripper. Now I can make a cup when I want and make another...or not. I don't feel bad if I don't drink the entire pot - which had sounded so tempting first thing in the morning but became less appealing as the day wore on. On Friday the dripper and my Hario pouring kettle come home with me for Weekend Coffee. Another selling point is that you can drink different kinds of coffee each cup rather than having a whole pot of one kind. And what if friends drop by just as we finish a cup? Brew another single cup! We will probably drink more coffee and broaden our coffee menu with this dripper.