What's your Ideal Grinder?

[huntertrw]

I use a Black & Decker HC-306 1.5-cup food-chopper, and it works beautifully for processing all my tobaccos. As much as I would like to claim this as my own idea, I believe that it was Pipestud who originally suggested it.

 

[bullet08]

Never had to grind my tobacco. Flake, plugs.. They are all good with a knife and my fingers.

 

[woodsroad]

With all the clamor on the "Woke Boxing" thread, I misread this as

"What's your ideal gender?"​

 

[philobeddoe]

I've never found the need for a grinder, I use a knife and a dedicated cutting board if my fingers don’t suffice.

 

[Sobrbiker]

@Sig-it’s all good brother. I wasn’t trying to come off contrarian, and enjoyment by the end user is the ultimate goal.
If I sat in an easy chair relaxing as my usual MO, I’d probably enjoy fiddling about with the tight coins and folded flakes, and have nothing but respect for all who enjoy what they do not matter how they do it.
Even when I pre-rub a batch of Kendal or Cobb Plug, it does taste different than rubbed out 1792 or Best Brown Flake.
Ultimately, I’m pretty sure the original fun of plugs and flakes besides portability and storage is that you can stick a chunk in your mouth or your pipe

 

[jpmcwjr]

No mechanical gear for rubbing out tobacco.

I use a Baratza Sette for coffee beans.

Oh, hey! It's a Submarine!! Grinder was my first one in CT. Later, elsewhere, I had some Hoagies, and now where there are a lot of Submarines, I don't eat them.

 

[Dr. Internet]

I too grew up in a locale that called submarine sandwiches: grinders. New Hampshire.
I used to love Italian ones. I like the hard crust, the soft inside of a good sandwich loaf. I love the onions, red vinegar, salt, pepper, a blend of prepared meats, lettuce, peppers, oregano, olive oil.
In High School, everybody went to a place in Concord after games or dances to get 1/4 roast beef on an onion rolls with a little au jus sauce. It was in H.S. that the first McDonald's came to town with those 15 cent hamburgers and those tasty salty french fries and thick shakes.
I tried smoking pipes back in my youth a few times. I never got it. I wish I had learned the ropes back then!
I was focused on drinking beer and getting with the ladies.

A long time ago I went to LORAN-C school at the base in New London, CT. One day I went across the street to a little sandwich shop and got a submarine sandwich, although they called it a grinder. WTH?

 

[Sobrbiker]

Southside Indy summers as a kid, I used to hang out at a place called Greiner’s that was a grinder shop, great sammiches.

 

[FurCoat]

 

[PaulRVA]

Bosun Cut Plug
Twisted and had rubbed only

 

[PaulRVA]

Bob’s Square Cut
Dried out for 24 hrs and hand rubbed.

 

[PaulRVA]

Louisiana Flake / Perique
Rubbed out by hand only.

 

[PaulRVA]

GLP Spark Plug Cut on cutting board with straight razor and had rubbed.

 

[Sobrbiker]

@PaulRVA-looks like a fine way to spend a Sunday morning!

 

[Sobrbiker]

Southside Indy summers as a kid, I used to hang out at a place called Greiner’s that was a grinder shop, great sammiches.

Holy crap! I just looked on the map and the place is still there. My post refers to the mid-late seventies, good for them!

 

[PaulRVA]

@PaulRVA-looks like a fine way to spend a Sunday morning!

Yeah,
Slight rain out and muggy plus the wife’s napping as her back is acting up. I figured might as well accomplish something

 

[telescopes]

I use an old bladed coffee grinder. The tobacco stays lit and the convenance of simply reaching for the jar full of ready to smoke tobacco that will stay lit and keep lit is my preference. If it changes the taste, I have found it to be for the better. In a pinch I am more than able to cut or rub out the tobacoco.

 

[jpmcwjr]

First off, it's a "hoagie", not a grinder. Traditional Italian is the only way to go.

Feeling a need to know more, my Google-fu was working this morning. The following is fairly well researched.

 

[woodsroad]

Quantity of information is not synonymous with quality of information.

"According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the hoagie (feel free to substitute your regional sandwich terminology here) likely originated in the “Philadelphia area where, during World War I, Italian immigrants who worked at the Hog Island shipyard began making sandwiches; they were originally called ‘hoagies’ before the name hoagie took hold.”

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nothing in my post about the origin of the sandwich nor how they are loved in PA! Where's the beef??

It would seem that a submarine made in Carmel, Ca could be every bit as good as a Philly Hoagie, with the exact same ingredients, and savvy "chef". Not saying it's likely, merely possible.