plastic parts like that are bound to break
Used several times a week for the first couple of months of ownership for making pourovers at work. It's a heck of a workout but produces a fairly decent grind passable for pourover coffee. Eventually brought my Breville burr grinder from home because I was drinking far more coffee at work than home. Used sporadically after that until it broke about a month ago. The plastic insert inside of the conical ceramic burr cracked and no longer fit tightly against the crankshaft, so the burrs didn't turn when the handle was rotated.<br /><br />For $15 you get what you pay for and unfortunately, plastic parts like that are bound to break. Best to look at one of the sturdier, spendier models from Hario.
Rating: 2 stars