I think my wife would kill me if I came home with a $200 coffee roaster and tried to claim it would "save us money". It would, if I would use it all the time,

I think my wife would kill me if I came home with a $200 coffee roaster and tried to claim it would "save us money". It would, if I would use it all the time, but I bet most often I wouldn't have the patients and time and would end up not using it. I've never really had good success with a blade grinder. I invariably end up with powder and large chunks.... maybe I should work on my technique. At my last job we did the french press thing, and we found that if we didn't clean off all the residue everywhere (including taking apart the entire press and scrubbing everything) we got a pretty heavy bitter flavor after a few days.