I saw Herb Grinders mentioned as used for grinding pipe tobacco flakes, coins, etc and am interested. Like to see what others think about how they work. Anyone here use one? Others - would you use a grinder?
Thoughts On A Tobacco / Herb Grinder
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I have the same one. You catching anything in the collector?They work just fine.
Dust, I just throw it out.
Er..the ones I've seen would probably jam up with tobacco instead of grinding it finer. I think a pizza wheel on a wood cutting board would do a cleaner job of making tobacco into a finer composition.
My wife gifted me with a little hand grater, probably intended mostly for weed smokers, but entirely useful for breaking down tobacco to a finer cut. It is entirely manual, which I prefer; life is too full of corded or battery operated appliances. Mostly I hand rub blends that seem to need that, but for a more uniform and flammable cut, this works well.
This is what I picture it looks like when you guys are out buying your weed grinders.
It's a collision of the worlds. That's me on the left.
My coffee bean grinder pulls double duty, just have to be REAL careful not to over do it. If I screw up and forget to clean it before the wife uses it for coffee......I just tell her now she won’t have to smoke a cig while drinking the coffee
. Usually doesn’t end well for me
. Usually doesn’t end well for me
Shhhh. Starbucks will add it to their menu board.
I use the herb grinder and it does an admirable job...also have a small coffee grinder which I have to watch carefully so that I don't wind up with dust...both are good for those hard plugs.
I bought mine at Walmart.
personally I hate those weed grinders. I always think what are your fingers broken? You can't do it by hand? And even more so for flakes. Now that I've publicly made fun of them, I'll be raving about how great they are in about a month.
Oh and the real reason to own one for weed is to break it out and catch the resin that falls from the other persons weed who doesn't have a grinder. Seriously that's probably the main reason those darn things are so popular.
I'm not saying it's superior or anything, but scissors are a much overlooked option for processing tobacco. And if you don't already own scissors, I'm not sure you can be trusted with fire either.
should have pointed out that my reaction was aimed at 20 year olds that are depressingly not dexterous at all.
I'm on the left with you MSO.. but not too many years ago, I stood on the right.
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