The coffee grinder available in every home, in addition to its main purpose - grinding coffee beans, is often used to grind other products. In this article we will tell you what rules should be followed so that expanded use of the device does not drastically reduce its life and that when grinding, the qualitative characteristics of the products being ground are preserved.
If the design, power and materials of which the device is made allow its use for grinding other products, manufacturers usually indicate this in the instructions.
The mill grinders have the most universal design. This is due to the possibility of adjusting the degree of grinding. The device can be configured to receive various fractions of the product.
Owners of a rotary (or knife) electric coffee grinder should consider the power of the device and the quality of its knives. The degree of grinding will have to be adjusted by eye, according to the period of operation of the device. If you want to get a larger grinding product will be chopped unevenly.
The list of permitted is not so big, but it is also able to simplify life and save from the acquisition of expensive crushers or manual hard labor.
Spice
In a coffee grinder, you can grind almost any spices. Among the general rules for performing crushing are:
- filling the volume of the container with half or one third of the volume, depending on the hardness of the product or the property of sticking to cutting surfaces:
- Before chopping the spices, it is advisable to warm in a pan. This contributes to the release of aromatic oils.
Sugar, cereals
If the baby needs to eat, but there is no chopped cereal at hand for quick cooking of porridge and go far or late to the store, you can grind cereal or cereal. With the same success, it will be possible to grind oatmeal into flour for making cookies or any cereals to make pancakes. Sugar in a coffee grinder easily turns into icing sugar for confectionery.
Nuts, seeds
The small volume of the bowl and the power of the device explain the limitation on the amount of processing. But for some products consumed in small volumes, this is quite enough. These include:
- nuts. Recipes of some cakes or cookies include nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts and others) as part of the dough or as a decoration. The coffee grinder will cope with the task if you adhere to the requirements set out at the end of the article;
- the seeds flax, sesame, mustard, sunflower and others. A coffee grinder will help you take advantage of the ability of freshly ground flaxseed to cleanse your intestines, improve your health, or simply lose weight. Sesame seeds and sunflower seeds in some pastry recipes must be ground beforehand. This can be done in a coffee grinder. With it, at home, you can cook mustard or mayonnaise, grinding mustard seeds.
Rusks, chocolate
It is easy to turn a stale white loaf or bread with a coffee grinder into high-quality bread crumbs. They will find their application in the preparation of meat or fish cakes, cauliflower or asparagus beans.
With the help of a coffee grinder, chunks of chilled chocolate can easily be turned into a fragrant and tasty powder for cake or apple charlotte.
What can not be done, grind
Foods such as dry garlic should not be minced. Especially this cannot be done if the cover of the device is made of plastic (the quality of plastic can vary greatly). After such procedures, using the device for its intended purpose for a long time will be impossible.
Among the conditionally prohibited products for grinding with a coffee grinder is sugar. Since the melting point of sugar is low, and the density of its crystals is high grinding should be done in a pulsed mode. This will help avoid overheating of the apparatus, as well as melting of the product.
If you decide to use the coffee grinder for alternative purposes, we recommend that you adhere to the following recommendations.
Fill the bowl of the machine half or one third of the volume, depending on the hardness of the product and take into account the tendency of the grinded product to stick to and stick to the cutting surfaces. This quality complicates the operation of the device and may lead to a deterioration in its technical condition or breakdown.
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