Is Fellow ODE The Best Home Coffee Grinder?

Fellow Products have been the leader of the pack in home brewing innovation for the last few years. From their successful Duo Steeper Kickstarter campaign to another crowdfunded success in the EKG+ kettle, Fellow is looking to their believers once more with a claim to have made the best home coffee grinder ever.

What are the things that plague home coffee grinders? Cheap components, conical burrs, loud noise, grind retention, and the list goes on. Fellow has been working hard over the last 26 months to solve these problems (and more!) and bring a new home grinder to the market at an incredible price point.

Meet, ODE. “Ode is a powerful and precise home grinder with café capabilities” Fellow says. “When grinders try to tackle both brewed coffee and espresso, they become a master of none. In stark contrast, Ode was solely designed to perfect your daily brewed coffee—pour-over, French press, cold brew, and more—while also performing above the competition in cleanliness and quietness.”

Boasting gigantic 64mm flat burrs, ODE seems like a mini EK for your home at a fraction of the cost. If this proves to be true, the café experience and performance may finally be achievable at home.

These burrs are triggered by an innovative smart PID motor to ensure that every bean gets pulverized at the same speed. This is likely to result in impressively consistent grind particles.

In addition to it’s performance, ODE looks stunning and falls right in line amongst a stellar lineup of products from Fellow. A few more thoughtful touches like an auto-stop feature, magnets to snap your beans bin in place, and an electrically grounded chute help to excel this grinder to the top of the pack in perceivably every category.

This end to one of the most creative products launches I’ve ever seen has been nothing but exhilarating, and now is your chance to join over 1,600 coffee nerds who have already backed this project on Kickstarter. It seems like the collective coffee community believes this grinder is going to be something special, as Fellow reaches their campaign target of $200,000 in just 94 minutes.

ODE retails for $299USD, and is expected to ship in July, 2020 - I already ordered mine!

Are you in the market for a new home grinder? Leave a comment and let me know what you think about the ODE!