Coffee Grinder is a fantastic tool that is very versatile and multi-purpose by nature.
You can not just grind coffee beans in it but you can also grind various food items such as nuts, peanuts, almonds, spices and various hard to eat food items.
Not just spices, but you can easily make sugar powder, protein powder, meat rubs, peanut butter and many other delicious grinds in your coffee grinder.
But today in this article, we are going to discuss about the possibility of putting ice in your coffee grinder.
Can you really put ice in a coffee grinder? If you ask me, then my answer would be “Yes and No Both”.
The answer is “No” when you have a regular blade coffee grinder at your home. Because when you put ice cubes in your blade grinder, it might damage the blades or motor of your machine in the process.
And my answer would be “Yes” when you have Burr Coffee Grinder at your home. Burr coffee grinder has much stronger inner blade mechanism which can withstand the hardness of ice cubes.
So, basically you can put ice in your conical or flat Burr Coffee Grinder without any issues. But avoid grinding the ice in your regular blade coffee grinder.
Now, you know the answer to your main query; I would like to tell you about the true potential of your Burr Coffee Grinder.
Check out my following answers to some of the most interesting questions asked by coffee lovers online.
Table of Contents
- When You can Use Ice in Your Coffee Grinder?
- What Else Can You Grind in a Coffee Grinder?
- Final Thoughts
When You can Use Ice in Your Coffee Grinder?
There are two delicious recipes you would want to make when you use ice in a coffee grinder.
First up all, as mentioned above; you will definitely need a quality Conical or Flat Burr Coffee Grinder for this purpose.
If you are looking for the right burr coffee grinder for grinding all types of food items including ice cubes then I strongly recommend to get Baratza Encore Conical Burr Coffee Grinder.
Now to make these recipes, you will require crushed ice mainly.
And you can obtain this crushed ice by simply grinding ice cubes in your burr coffee grinder.
The stronger blade mechanism in these types of grinders can easily crush the larger ice cubes without any damage to the machine.
Once you obtain a crushed ice, its time to make these two interesting recipes.
And those recipes are Iced Coffee and Cold Brew Coffee.
You can use this crushed ice to prepare delicious cold brew coffee and iced coffee at your home.
What Else Can You Grind in a Coffee Grinder?
There are several things or food items which you can easily grind in your coffee grinder without any issues.
Those things are as follows.
a. Spices: There are several types of spices that you can grind in your coffee grinder such as black cardamom, cinnamon sticks, coriander seeds, cumin, cloves, black peppercorns, etc.
b. Dry Herbs and Herbs for Tea
c. Sugar Powder
d. Smaller portions of flour such as wheat flour
e. Bread crumbs
f. Chopped nuts as well as seeds: Here you can grind several types of nuts such as peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, avocados, pecans, walnuts, pine nuts, etc.
You can easily make powder of soft nuts such as peanuts, walnuts, pecans, etc.
But hard nuts such as almonds are bit cumbersome to make powder. You can obtain a coarse grind of almonds and other hard nuts.
If you are looking to obtain the fine powder of hard nuts such as almonds then I highly recommend you to get a good quality blender such as Ninja Blender or a Food Processor.
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h. Garnishes: When you require little garnishing on your special food dishes, then you can take help of your coffee grinder.
With it, you can easily make smaller pieces of coconuts, lemon peels, and chocolates, etc.
Final Thoughts
Finally, I would like to say that you can use ice cubes in your coffee grinder occasionally.
I would not recommend you to put them on a regular basis in your grinder.
Yes, if you happen to have a good quality Conical Burr Coffee Grinder such as Baratza Encore Burr Coffee Grinder, then you are good to go.
You can also grind other food items in your grinder as mentioned above.
Nuts, spices, herbs, breadcrumbs, garnishes, powdered sugar are all ok to grind in the machine without any issues.
Just be aware of putting large ice cubes in your regular blade coffee grinder, that’s it.