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bittrette
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#1 Posted : Thursday, September 2, 2021 10:50:38 AM(UTC)

I'm looking for a new coffee grinder, and as I'm browsing on Amazon I see sheerness as one of the standards. What is sheerness in a grinder?

mjes
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#2 Posted : Friday, September 3, 2021 4:53:57 AM(UTC)

Just a guess but one speaks of a sheer cliff as a measure of perpendicularity so I would expect it to refer to the angle of the grinding element. The nice thing about a guess, if I am wrong, I'm not surprised. If I am right, I look smart. A win-win I think.


 

Barb_N
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#3 Posted : Friday, September 3, 2021 8:35:06 AM(UTC)

After reading several 'technical' sites reviewing grinders the assumption is that sheerness is an obvious concept that does not need to be defined, and can be a noun or a verb 🤷🏻‍♀️ The message I get is that if you have to ask...

Fyretigger
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#4 Posted : Friday, September 3, 2021 1:06:10 PM(UTC)

A deep dive on Google, wandering through Reddit and various other boards, the consensus seems to be that 'sheerness' is a mistranslation of 'fineness'. Several posters responded to the same question, that they'd been asked to rate the 'sheerness' of such things as vacuum cleaners, mouse pads and bicycle foot pedals.

averythingcooks
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#5 Posted : Saturday, September 4, 2021 8:59:05 AM(UTC)
I've been following this post with interest and also took a look online. There a tons of queries re "what does amazon mean by sheerness??" I think "sheerness" applies to clothing ( ie how see through is it?) and maybe other things that should be sheer like glass etc but that there is one list of factors to rate regardless of the product. To add to Fyretigger's list, people have commented that they had also come across it when rating coffee (this guy admitted to giving the coffee 5 stars for this with no idea what it was referring to :), a sander, cat food and earrings. One response to a query re: what to do if it seems completely irrelevant/you don't know what it means is to use the "x" which will remove it from the final rating...apparently lots of people don't know to do this & neither did I until today. Interesting that the answer didn't actually include WHAT it is actually referring to :)
bittrette
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, September 8, 2021 10:45:48 AM(UTC)

I have no idea what sheerness in coffee is, either. But I was asking about sheerness in a grinder :)

averythingcooks
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#7 Posted : Wednesday, September 8, 2021 11:30:08 AM(UTC)

My research indicated that "sheerness" appears in the list of EVERY Amazon product rating regardless of whether it is applicable to that particular product.....raters are able to  X it when not applicable out so it doesn't appear but it would seem that many product raters don't know that.

bittrette
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#8 Posted : Wednesday, September 8, 2021 5:23:13 PM(UTC)

I bought a grinder from a local supermarket - a blade grinder, in order to save precious counter space. Sheerness was not a factor.

StokeySue
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#9 Posted : Wednesday, September 8, 2021 5:45:26 PM(UTC)

I'm inclined to agree with the theory that it's a mistranslation, as the thesaurus gives fineness and delicacy as synonyms


Sheerness is also a town on the Medway estuary in south eastern England 

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