Any appliance with a powerful grinding motor should not be run continuously for more than 30-40 seconds

So far I've ground black pepper and will never go back to buying ready ground black pepper again - the smell of the freshly ground one with this machine is amazing

It makes a beautiful grind, not all the way down to powder.

I've used mine primarily for grinding very hot peppers such as ghost and Carolina reapers

It is nice and easy to use and did grind cinnamon sticks

Easy to start, just push the clear top down and hold, and it doesn’t take but 10 seconds to course grind, 20-25 secs for fine grind.

For a while on the Melita to get the same fine grind that this one gets very quickly

I pulse for trying to get a somewhat coarse grind for my drip coffee, but when I do that all I get is some whole beans that don't get ground up at all