Spice up your life: a grinder is a must to add to your Christmas list

Grinding spices by hand is hard work, and sometimes they don’t come out as finely ground as I’d like. While a spice grinder may be the answer, I worry that I’d spend too much time cleaning it between different spices. Cosima, Berlin, Germany I do use a spice grinder, which I originally bought to grind coffee, so my advice is just to go for it. True, a pestle and mortar is a great tool (particularly if you have a granite one, with some texture, rather than a smooth one in which you end up chasing the spices around the bowl), but the spices don’t always come out finely ground, however much elbow grease you put in. After all, ready-ground spices come nowhere near toasted and ground whole spices such as…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 25 October 2024

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