Wanted-Beginners Coffee Grinder

My wife is thinking of taking the next step in caffeine addiction by grinding her own beans.
Is anyone selling a suitable grinder (I know nothing about coffee).
I don’t think she will manage a manual one

Might be worth posting in the coffee appreciation thread as well. The question will be what budget and for what type of coffee drink

Budget definitely key here, sharing my own experience I just "upgraded" to a ~£200 RRP grinder and it's definitely only a side grade to my £60 hand grinder. Sadly there doesn't really seem to be any middle ground between those two points

I have one of these,

https://handground.com/

bigger than most hand grinders and most of it is replaceable. Perfectly fine for grinding beans for my stovetop. The different settings make it pretty easy to change the grind for different types of coffee making.
Check the price of it in the uk, got mine for about £70 if I remember correctly, but that was like 4-5 yrs ago.

Hand grinders will give you better grind quality than what you pay for in a machine. If you’re looking for budget I’d say Wilfa Svart is about as low as you want to go. But it will not do espresso.

If you want espresso you’re looking at Sage Smart Grinder/Baratza Encore/Fellow Opus/Rancilio Rocky/Iberital as your starter range. I’d almost always recommend buying secondhand as plenty of people buy these then decide to upgrade a year or two later so it’s a reasonably fast moving market. Other bang for your buck option is to find an old ex-cafe mazzer/Eureka grinder (they are built like tanks) but they will be heavy as hell and not well adapted to home use/single grinding.

Ultimately think a cheap grinder will almost always be better than ground coffee if you want nice coffee flavours, so do go for whatever you can afford. But do also buy good beans because no point buying a good grinder if you’re grinding stuff that’s been roasted to charcoal and sat on a shelf for two months. I think Django coffee is great, and black cat do very reasonably priced coffee blends last I checked. Yellow Bourbon is a bit above that price point but I’ve heard very good things and there’s a forum discount because Steve is on here.

I've got an Iberital MC2 going spare for £80, bought from Nef of these parts about a year ago. Based in SE London, would prefer collection as it's pretty hefty. Lemme know if you're interested and I can ping you some pix.

Another vote for Wilfa here (I don't need anything finer than moka though), in the event you end up buying new.

I've got a Krups thing you can have for nothing. It's really not very good but it is free! Similar to this one but in black.
DM or WhatsApp me if it's any good to you.

Cheers Loz