Product Description: Battery operated hand-held grinder takes four 'AA' batteries; three settings let you grind fine, medium or coarse; comes apart simply and quickly for easy cleaning. Capacity: 45 grams Color: White Battery operated, requires 4 'AA' batteries Three settings, fine, medium and coarse Designed for Sesame Seeds and will not mill other seeds such as flax
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - I love my Zojirushi Sesame Seed Grinder
I haven't tried it for anything other than grinding roasted sesame seeds. That's what I bought it. Its speed really beats that of the hand cranked manual kind, which takes a very long time to accumulate the amount of ground seed I need for my Korean recipes.
Rating: - It's supposed to grind roasted sesame seeds
You can't blame the machine for not doing what it was not designed to do. It's supposed to grind ROASTED SESAME SEEDS. And for that, it does a perfect job. I use it all the time to grind roasted sesame seeds onto my pasta, rice, soba noodles, etc. I've had it for many years now and it keeps on working like a charm. (Sesame seeds are nutritionally more valuable when ground up since otherwise the seeds tend to make it through your digestive system intact.)
Rating: - Doesn't Do The Job
The product is labeled as a seed grinder, so you would expect it to be able to grind seeds, but it failed miserably. I tried grinding flax seeds (about the size of sesame seeds) but about half of the flax seeds made it through the grinder intact. I even tried running the "ground" seeds through a second and third time but still wound up with a large portion of whole or almost intact seeds. That was with the grinder on the fine setting. It seems to be a combination of poor design and cheap parts. The "grinding" wheels are made of plastic which is not the best material for friction and the design ... Read More
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