Spice & Herb Manual Grinder 2.4” – Durable and Easy Grip Herb Grinder

Very pleased with my purchase. Very durable, not cheaply made. Since I grind all my dried herbs when needed it’s so simple to just through in a small batch and grind away. Easy to clean up after. Very happy with my purchase and highly recommend.

It is easy to use and easy to clean.

Got this as a gift for my wife who uses a grinder very frequently.This holds enough herb to make it worthwhile and grinds quickly, too. The fine mesh screen on the bottom collects fairly quickly. It has been used for the last 4 months daily and still feels like new.

It won't grind up your "herbs" into super fine fluff, but somewhere in between coarse and minced, I guess. It works well for my purposes which isn't "cooking". I like the catcher at the bottom too to get all the fine powder at the end which you can use to top off whatever you are using your herbs for to give it an extra punch. I like the feel and quality so far.8/10 Would recommend it. Hope this review was helpful.

The precision machining is impressive to me. This is all aluminum and the cutting edges are good and sharp providing a high durability. I believe this is more so for the smoking herb that is all the rage these days but well suited for spice herbs too. It even has 2 o-rings at the lower chamber to keep it snuggly together and to protect your precious product you just ground.I find that it has little slots that your herb will just fall through before it gets cut down too much. Simple fix is to just turn it upside down and grind away for awhile then invert it and it will be much more finely ground.I has a small velvety pouch that it comes in but it is a little bit tight fit and takes a minute to get it out or more to get it back in. A bit of stretching the pouch fixed that problem for me.

I agree that with other reviewers that this is a beautifully made, well-machined product. It is heavy metal, very solid, snaps together with satisfying magnetic attraction. It’s a pleasure to hold and to use. But as a spice grinder there are surely better products. The ad copy talks about “root spices and husks.” My experiments didn’t yield much useful for cooking with rosemary, cinnamon, garlic or even cardamom in the husks. See photos. Interestingly the video in the listing doesn’t actually show the product at work. Makes me wonder whether this was designed with something more specific in mind.

This little grinder is compact but heavy/solid. There are 3 main sections. 1) The top lid (closes by magnet) has the grinder teeth that match the gaps in the main grinder body; 2) the main grinder body that has the teeth and also holes to allow ground-up materials to fall through. 3) The bottom part consists of a wire mesh that pushes close to the bottom container. There is a tiny (1") plastic scraper for getting materials off the wire mesh. The photo shows the lid on the right side and the bottom section on the left side.

This grinder is absolutely gorgeous to look at. It has a nice weight and feel to it, with a strong magnet in the middle of the lid.There were no instructions at all, so I just kept twisting and pulling until I got the pieces apart. If there’s only one way they will fit, I guess I put the pieces back together correctly. There was no information about cleaning or maintenance (it does come with a tiny little scraper, I assume for cleaning out bits stuck in the blades). I wanted to clean it first, so I swished the pieces around in soapy water and then rinsed them and let them air dry. They seemed to survive that OK.For the grinding test, I first tried some larger whole dried herbs. Rosemary often has long, tough “needles”, so I put some whole rosemary in the top section, some of which fell through the holes immediately. I turned the top (I guess that’s how you’re supposed to grind things) and then opened it up, and I didn't see a lot of difference, although the rosemary I started with did not have the really long pieces that I had in the previous batch. I then tried the same thing with some winter savory, and again some very large pieces fell right through the holes before I could even start trying to grind it. And again the result was not that different from what I’d started with.My last test was on some allspice. Allspice berries vary in size, with some the size of black peppercorns, and some quite a bit larger. This time I could feel a lot of resistance when I turned the top—it was fairly hard to turn. One thing I don’t know is whether it makes a difference which direction you turn it. I’m left-handed, so if there’s a difference, I probably turn it the wrong way. I could tell by the resistance and crunching that it was doing something. But the result of my grinding was a combination of big pieces, like the outer part had been peeled off the berries, and whole allspice berries that hadn’t been ground at all.I’ve provided an image of all the pieces of this device. It shows 1) the top of the grinder; 2) the first level, where I put the allspice berries, and there’s still something there in the very middle where there aren't any holes for stuff to fall through; 3) the results of my grinding sitting on top of the sieve—large uneven pieces and whole unground berries, with a couple of whole winter savory pieces that fell through in my earlier test; and 4) the very small amount of finely ground allspice that fell through the sieve. It smells great, though!I don’t know what kinds of herbs or spices this would be best for. I think a lot of them would just fall right through the holes, which are bigger than most seeds and whole herbs. I think that a mortar and pestle would probably provide a more uniform and satisfactory result on spices. This might work better on cutting up large dried herbs, which aren’t as “crunchy” as dried seeds and don’t get broken up that well in a mortar and pestle. I’ll give it another go with rosemary and winter savory. I might try it on nuts, too, as shown on the webpage.