Good evening guys, I have to say the following: I am a professional with my own Wega machine and Belogia on-demand grinder.

For home, I tried the Gaggia Carezza Deluxe and the Gaggia MD15 grinder. As you will see in the video, if we want a little more extraction time, we necessarily have to intervene with a handmade paper disc to make it more finely ground, or we add more grams to the group.

I am satisfied with 16 grams and 22 seconds, but this is a matter of taste.

What I have to say, the most important thing, is that I use it as on-demand.

The first button works permanently, while the instructions say 5 seconds, but for the first grain that I put in, it says 10 seconds.

I don't fill the whole container; I want fresh ground coffee every time. That's where the difference is. In the video, you see a deviation from 15.5 grams to 17 grams, but most of the time it dispenses 16 grams. Otherwise, we take a little out of the container and with a teaspoon, we put exactly as much as we want.

It's worth it

For me, who has a pressurized machine, it works just fine on the finest setting. With single-origin 100% arabica coffees, I have understood what flavor really means, with the help of this grinder.

Of course, you realize that for/with 100 euros, you can't expect a professional grind or a wide range of grind settings, but personally I am absolutely satisfied both with the grinding result and the build quality.

As for the users who have it and complain that it starts and grinds on its own, every time I left it plugged in, I never heard any automatic start, but mainly I keep it unplugged when I'm not using it, to save even the minimal energy it needs to stay on standby.

Update 22/9/2025: I went up to the Netherlands and bought the same Gaggia Espresso Evo espresso machine again and went to the local equivalent of Skroutz and bought coffee grinders to do my job. The first one, at 28 euros, you had to stop the grinding by hand, and it almost roasted the coffee because it heated up from all the grinding time. The second one, at 37 euros, ground it like gravel. In the end, I bought the same Gaggia one again at 70 from Amazon and I was relieved. From the first grind, quality results and, most importantly, uniform for a pressurized basket. The best!

I bought it for espresso grinding and I regretted it. With the finest grind (at level 1), it is only suitable for factory pressurized baskets (and even then, depending on the coffee, regarding how fine it needs to be). As for adding a gasket, yes, it really improves espresso grinding BUT! It makes a lot of noise and something tells me that the blades touch the stationary cutting parts. Therefore, as it comes from the factory, it is NOT suitable for espresso. If you intervene by adding the gasket (or gaskets if you use two), then yes, it can be used for espresso but at your own risk for any damage to the cutting parts (which I think is NOT covered by the warranty). It also has a large retention, which can be solved if you tap lightly a few times on the side with your hand where the dosing button is until the rest of the coffee falls out. Cleaning is easy. The container is convenient with the well-designed silicone gasket it has so that the ground coffee does not spill out. Overall, I am relatively satisfied, except for grinding espresso for non-pressurized baskets, where 'intervention' is ESSENTIAL in order to get a satisfactory result (and even then, you can experiment around levels 2-3). If you have a tight budget, yes, it is recommended.

Update after two years of use and tests with many coffees. In the end, even at the finest grind setting (at 1), it is not suitable even for factory pressurized baskets. The extraction, even with very hard tamping, is very fast. So, intervention with the gasket is ESSENTIAL no matter what

Quality and efficient construction. It produces very well-ground coffee (at the 1st level) and the espresso comes out very good with the right crema and aroma. Of course, it is not in the same category as the 600+€ machines, but it is truly value for money.
Obviously, it also has settings for coarser coffee, for French press.
Extremely low noise, stable and stylish construction.
Very easy cleaning of both coffee bins, as well as the blade.
It has a time adjustment for single and double dose grinding.
Although it is not designed to grind directly into the portafilter, it can be done if the ground coffee bin is removed and the portafilter is held under the outlet of the ground coffee (as it does not have a stand for the portafilter) for the duration of the grinding of the single or double dose. Of course, it will make a mess on the countertop, as with this "manual" process, the coffee will fall and scatter around the portafilter.
With regular use, when the coffee falls into the ground coffee bin, nothing falls outside as it has a well-designed seal to prevent this phenomenon.