Can you use this as a pepper grinder?
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No, salt and pepper grinders are not interchangeable, they have different grinding mechanisms. The mechanism in a pepper grinders are made of some kind of metal, but salt corrodes metal, so the mechanism in salt grinders are ceramic. However, this same company sells a pepper grinder in the exact same style that is also available on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Kamenstein-5-Inch-Glass-Grinder-Peppercorns/dp/B003XQG7FU/ref=pd_bxgy_k_img_y
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No, salt and pepper grinders are not interchangeable, they have different grinding mechanisms. The mechanism in a pepper grinders are made of some kind of metal, but salt corrodes metal, so the mechanism in salt grinders are ceramic. However, this same company sells a pepper grinder in the exact same style that is also available on Amazon - Kamenstein 5-Inch Glass Chamber Adjustable Spice Grinder with Peppercorns
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No, it would leak out. Some pepper already leaks out from the smaller grinds
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I think YS answered the question very well. I bought the grinder to grind dried Serrano peppers I keep in the kitchen. It does not work for these peppers but looks nice on my black stove.
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Tyler, thanks for the question. If you want your herbs ground to a 'powder' you are probably better off buying an electric spice/coffee grinder with a very fast spinning blade.
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yes you can. You will love this grinder and if you're not completely satisfied we offer a 100% money back guarentee.
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I guess you could, although the salt grinder is for grinding salt, so it might grind the pepper different. Actually, I would stick to having one pepper and one salt in the same container.
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I do not know. My pepper grinder is inoperable. You can call the people at Kaloric for assistance..there is an engineer on staff, who may be able to tell you.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure you could, if purchase the right grinder adapter made for it. However, keep in mind, this high speed buffer and are intended for buffing purpose only. My recommendation is to buy the right machine that is made for grinding, plus machine is not a heavy duty which made for heavy grinding and you probably will be disappointed if use this machine for others than buffing.
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I have not tried to do that, but since they sell a separate salt grinder my best gas is that the grinding elements are different for salt from pepper Salt is a harder material. Spices might be okay, but I have never tried that.
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I am using mine for salt and pepper but you have to make sure that it is a fine grind, not coarse.
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Not sure since it's not something I've tried. Don't know why not - you can get the grind as fine as you want - it's a SUPER grinder!
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We bought it to try to grind flax seeds, but it took so much work, my wife converted it to a pepper mill. It has worked very nicely as a pepper mill for the past 10 years of daily use, but may be having some mechanical difficulties at this point. For the flax seed, we gave up on grinding our own and started buying Bob's Red Mill ground flax seed.
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I never grind Pepper corn but i think it will work for pepper . I usually use it for groundnuts , Red Chile , Sesame Seed.
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You can definitely grind some spices - I've used it for peppercorns and cloves without a problem. Haven't tried cardamon. I think the only problem would be the small top opening. The middle grinding piece does not come out (I suspect it WILL come out, but I think you would have to use a small wrench), so you have to fit your spices around the middle grinder, which would be a challenge with anything larger than cloves.
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Personally, I only use this grinder for coffee. Please see the description for any other food grinding
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I don't know. All I can say is that it is small, only about 5" high and 1" wide. The peppercorns grind out coarse, not fine.
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No, I have only used it for coffee. I think that grinding moist substances, like ginger and garlic, would not work well unless it was fully loaded. I wouldn't do this with my mine.