the smaller the better. Manual okay. I had been using a Mueller coffee/spice grinder (now deceased), which did not handle small amounts of spices well - too much space between the blade and the bottom of the cup.
Anyone have experience with this one?
or this one?
I use a Cuisinart conical burr grinder for spices. It does a much better job than the whirling blade kind which I had used for many years before.
Thanks! I have a burr grinder for coffee, but I wanted something easier to clean and with a smaller footprint.
I have a Toastmaster for dried shrooms and spices that works pretty well, but it’s not tiny. Pretty easy to clean IYAM, tho.
Also a Cuisinart for our coffee beans that’s slightly smaller.
Timely. I was thinking I need to get a little one for white pepper. (A pepper grinder doesn’t get it fine enough.)
Though the small cuisinart coffee grinder works fine for other things.
Which model?
Ancient? Model No is 1119.
I have a different Krups that works well, as well as a Cuisinart that works equally well.
I like the idea of the Krups being small and quiet.
I have one. I need something that can do more.
I suspect you’ll find that there is no one “best” at all things. A mill that excels at peppercorns may disappoint you with nutmeg, for example, but the little Microplane that is champ for nutmeg could drive you crazy. I think the closest you’ll come to a single jack-o-all-trades is… the ubiquitous bladed “coffee” mill.
Whatever you get, I recommend you pick one that is easy to clean out and thereby avoid flavor carryover.
Good luck.
Thanks. I’m leaning toward the Krups. Neither my Cuisinart nor my Mueller lasted more than five years, so I’m wary of getting another one from either company.
I have a whirligig Krups that’s been in service for more than 20 years. It doesn’t get super heavy use, but it’s been a trooper. It definitely checks the box on “easy to clean”.
Its big downside is controlling grit size and uniformity. It’s a Luke Skywalker exercise unless you use use sieves.
Good to know, thanks.
I use an old, hand-cranked coffee mill (the kind with a little drawer at the bottom that collects the grinds/grounds). Found it in a thrift store ages ago, IIRC. I just run a tablespoon or two of rice through it after particular pungent batches.
The Krups one looks like an updated version of the one I have. It’s fine, but I wish mine came apart to clean it. I usually wipe the inside with a paper towel (barely damp and then a dry one), use a pipe cleaner on some of the harder to get to parts around the blade, and then blast it with canned air. Mostly because there’s only so many pieces of bread I can run through it to “clean” it.
I like the IKEA spice grinder. Not expensive, ceramic grinding wheels, and you can buy a set of glass containers for other spices.
Oh, that looks cool. Thanks!
I am not above running things under the faucet (avoiding the motor). Nothing bad has happened so far.
