These are great little grinders for dried herbs and spices, I got two of them, one for pepper corns and other spices, and the other for homegrown and dried herbs. They work much quicker than a mortar and pestle or conventional pepper grinders. Seeing I cook large quantities of food, they grind much better and faster than any other methods, and the granule size is fully adjustable. I however never intended to use these as actual coffee grinders, because I have decent electric ones that obviously do the job quicker. however those electric grinders cannot be used for herbs and spices "unless you want to turn it into powder" and ideally one extra manual grinder for "nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon" would be ideal. so I will get one more. I did however "chamfer" the top edges of the little trays, and 3D printed little slides with wedges atop "but the slides are not critical, as long as little tray top edges are chamfered to min 45 degrees" so everything falls into tray and not some remaining spices on edges or inside base of wooden box. For coffee obviously this would not be necessary, as only coffee will be ground, and some coffee remaining would not matter. But with herbs and spices, you don't want cross contamination
These are great little grinders for dried herbs and spices, I got two of them, one for pepper corns and other spices, and the other for homegrown and dried herbs. They work much quicker than a mortar and pestle or conventional pepper grinders. Seeing I cook large quantities of food, they grind much better and faster than any other methods, and the granule size is fully adjustable. I however never intended to use these as actual coffee grinders, because I have decent electric ones that obviously do the job quicker. however those electric grinders cannot be used for herbs and spices "unless you want to turn it into powder" and ideally one extra manual grinder for "nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon" would be ideal. so I will get one more. I did however "chamfer" the top edges of the little trays, and 3D printed little slides with wedges atop "but the slides are not critical, as long as little tray top edges are chamfered to min 45 degrees" so everything falls into tray and not some remaining spices on edges or inside base of wooden box. For coffee obviously this would not be necessary, as only coffee will be ground, and some coffee remaining would not matter. But with herbs and spices, you don't want cross contamination
These are great little grinders for dried herbs and spices, I got two of them, one for pepper corns and other spices, and the other for homegrown and dried herbs. They work much quicker than a mortar and pestle or conventional pepper grinders. Seeing I cook large quantities of food, they grind much better and faster than any other methods, and the granule size is fully adjustable. I however never intended to use these as actual coffee grinders, because I have decent electric ones that obviously do the job quicker. however those electric grinders cannot be used for herbs and spices "unless you want to turn it into powder" and ideally one extra manual grinder for "nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon" would be ideal. so I will get one more. I did however "chamfer" the top edges of the little trays, and 3D printed little slides with wedges atop "but the slides are not critical, as long as little tray top edges are chamfered to min 45 degrees" so everything falls into tray and not some remaining spices on edges or inside base of wooden box. For coffee obviously this would not be necessary, as only coffee will be ground, and some coffee remaining would not matter. But with herbs and spices, you don't want cross contamination
