So, I am looking at the gourmet coffees in the grocery store, and I spot one that looks great and I have to try it. The front of the package does not say whether the coffee is ground or whole beans. Naturally, excited to try it, I bought it. When I arrive home and open the package my excitement is stifled, and I see that I have whole bean coffee and no grinder. I decide that as a novice coffee critic, it is time to up my game. It is time for me to grind my own beans like the settlers of the old west. Realizing I need a coffee grinder, I did a quick search online and saw that the giant retail store had one for under fifteen dollars. I purchased one of these budget models and after taking it out of the box and reading some of its material I learned that filling the grinding chamber to the line marked “MAX,” should give me two ounces of coffee capable of brewing up to twelve cups. Some other interesting things in the literature, that I find questionable, are “for the smoothest, best-...