Conical Burr Coffee Grinder

Right from brand new out of the box - constant E-3 alarm shutdown

I’m back with my second review!
Returned third machine in two years. Worked for only one week this time. Luckily I was still within the two year warranty. Exchanged it for a Cuisinart. I know it will be louder but it should last longer.

Two years ago we splurged and bought the most expensive coffee grinder we could find at Canadian tire hoping this would last us many years. After 11 months we had the E-3 code every time we would use it. CT replaced it with a new machine, now less than a year later we have the same E-3 code again.
It was within the 2 year warranty so today we took it back and got our third machine. Hopefully this ones is a keeper.

Worked great for around three months, then began to repeatedly get E-3 errors even after a thorough cleaning as per the manual. Now I can’t get it to work for more than four seconds directly after cleaning the machine without the error message. Very disappointed as this was a birthday gift.

So… I wrote a review about how our grinder did not work at all. My husband returned it but instead of coming home with a different brand grinder (insert eye roll) he returned with a replacement of the same one. Granted, it actually worked! And the parts on it moved differently which led me to believe Canadian Tire had put a broken and returned one back on the shelf. Nevertheless, I was cautiously optimistic and it worked like a dream for a week (quiet, evenly ground to perfection!)…then the dreaded E-3 error every negative review talked about. It’s a real thing, folks. You can “clean it according to instructions” all day long and it won’t help. The E-3 will NOT go away. It is clearly a coding flaw and Paderno needs to address it because at this point unless I come across a product with only 5 star reviews and no negative ones - I will never be buying an electronic Paderno product again.