Regardless of whether your coffee grinder is manual or electric, it is designed to perform only one function - grinding coffee. A logical question arises: What can you grind in a coffee grinder except coffee? Is it possible to grind other products in the device? Coffee expert John Beans give a positive answer! True, a miniature kitchen miracle does not welcome every product, and the grinding of individual ingredients must be carried out with some limitation, so that the device does not fail.

Types of coffee grinders

Theoretically, in a coffee grinder, you can grind everything that fits there. But can this be done in practice? When buying a device in a store, pay attention to the instructions attached to it. In it, the manufacturer indicates that you can still grind except coffee.

For the most part, users of household appliances, including kitchen appliances, are not used to being interested in the power and design of devices. Coffee grinder is no exception. But device manufacturers point to additional features in the instructions.

 The palm is assigned to millstone models. They provide a grinding level regulator, and this, by default, allows the device to "adapt" to a certain fraction of the food.

The second option is a rotary coffee grinder, grinding with a knife propeller. Its crushing level is fixed independently depending on the life of the device itself (if the model is old or weak, the button must be clamped lightly and at intervals). Moreover, you can’t count on coarse grinding, because knives of a rotor design, when performing the corresponding task, will cut the contents of the container non-uniformly.

What can you grind in a coffee grinder?

The idea of allowing different edible ingredients to the grinder tank may seem bizarre. But not everyone can and wants to grind sugar or nuts to make a pie through a hand mill, especially if the kitchen has an electric counterpart. Therefore, the latter can and should simplify the culinary life. Moreover, the products that the grinder successfully grinds:

1.Spices

2.Sugar, salt

3.Cereals

4.Crackers

5.Chocolate

6.Nuts

Spice

All fragrant food additives are easily grind by a coffee grinder. True, after them, it is necessary to wash the compartment so that the upcoming coffee does not turn out sharp or bitter

Sugar, salt

Sugar and salt are easily processed by the cutting edges of an electric coffee grinder. Moreover, both products can be poured into the unit compartment at the same time, being guided by the ratio that the recipe requires

Chocolate

Dense cocoa mass easily and quickly turns into chips even when the container is 100% full. However, in the latter it is better to leave some free space.

What cannot be grind in a coffee grinder?

Since there are many “folk craftsmen” among users of the coffee grinder, the rotor and troughs of the device often break due to overload and clogging. The latter is due to too small fractions, while not only solid products, but also fibrous ones can become the culprits of the wear of the mechanism. For example, orange peel and onions often get entangled in a “knifes”