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Grace Dean

9 unexpected uses for your coffee grinder

A handheld coffee grinder with coffee beans inside.

Across your kitchen, you’ll have an array of appliances with specific uses. The garlic press, the toaster oven, the electric kettle, the blender, and so on. Quite quickly, your cooking space can become overrun with kit you need to make certain dishes, but what about if you could use one appliance for a whole multitude of tasks? Well, the coffee grinder can do just that.

While it’s primarily used for grinding coffee beans, the process by which it does that means it can actually work as a really great small food processor. And, there’s actually a lot of uses for making up small batches of blended-up ingredients, which we’re about to dive into below. 

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