Cuisinart SG-10 Electric Spice-and-Nut Grinder, Stainless/Black, Mini

Recommended by WireCutter. It’s powerful motor mix quick work of finely grinding spices. Plus, will the top and bottom can be taken off and washed in the sink, making it really easy to keep clean.

The best substitute for traditional granite motor and pestle. Great on wet or dry ingredients. My current one is about 6 years old and still working well. Don't settle for cheaper grinders or coffee grinder. I used this grinder to hard dried Louisiana shrimp or dried beans. The pictures are my homemade shrimp paste condiment with this grinder. I made batches and mixed everything in a bowl. I hand washed and no shrimp paste smell. I only wish inner lid to avoid flyaway dry ingredients. Sometimes I use shrink-wrap under the lid. This grinder is not suitable to pound featherback fish paste to make fish cakes. Just use dough hooks from hand mixer.I already bought another for backup as I can't live without this grinder. I do have 2 Asian traditional granite motor and pastal sets but not too good to use on my granite kitchen counter.

I bought this grinder with some trepidation because the first several reviews were quite negative. I'm glad I bought it because it is proving to be a star. I use it for a range of things - hard legumes and spices, including Indian spices, seeds, softer spices, breadcrumbs, etc. I've occasionally used it with wet grinding of pastes (ginger, garlic, chutneys, etc) if it's not too runny.It has several unique features that are difficult to find in a grinder this size:- Its size is just right - small enough to grind small quantities of things like spices without having a huge leftover to store for weeks; large enough that you don't need too many rounds when grinding larger quantities- Blade design seems efficient. It seems to completely pulverize anything I put in it (including hard spices) in a small fraction of the time it takes for other grinders (like coffee grinders). It does this so fast that the motor has never been even close to overheating. And it seems to work well always - I haven't yet discovered anything it won't grind well- So far, its longevity is good (about 8 months) - it has lasted longer than all of the highly rated coffee grinders I tried to use for these purposes- Cleanup is trivial. The importance of this is hard to overstate. Other grinders such as coffee grinders claim easy cleanup but this is an order of magnitude better. You can simply take the bowl and lid off completely and put them in the dishwasher and they will come out fully clean. No more fiddling with brushes etc. to try to remove the bits and residues of spices that are left in the fixed bowls of other grinders.The only concerns so far:- The lid has a rubber ring that seems necessary for a good seal; if that is missing some of the spice/ground material might escape the bowl during grinding. The rubber ring is not small, but it's easy to lose in the dishwasher etc. if not careful- Wet grinding seems a bit risky. The bowl can allow liquid to escape through the bottom and this could possibly enter the motor casing and damage the motor (though this hasn't happened to me so far). So this may not be suitable for wet grinding and isn't quite like a miniature full-featured grinder, which is what is really needed.Pretty glad to have found this after trying to use coffee grinders as spice grinders for several years with limited success.

Works great on nuts deducted one star cause cup isn’t removable for washing my bad should have read more carefully

I use this to mix my own herbs it does a great job at grinding them fine to create a fine type powder which I like to use for cooking

I purchased this to grind flax seed and other hard seeds for my horses, and so far, it has worked well. I'd burnt up too many coffee grinders doing this in the past, so spent a bit more on this Cuisinart grinder and it definitely is better built. I've been using it daily for a few weeks and it has performed well so far. It does not grind super fine, so if that is what you need, it won't do that (no way to adjust the grind), but it does seem to be up to the task of grinding really hard seeds, which were too much for my previous coffee grinders. I use fenugreek seed in cookies I make for the horses (yes, they are spoiled!), and those ground up well, which was a good test as they killed the last coffee grinder.I left one star off only because, as a previous reviewer observed, you have to store it with the lid on, and that is the trigger to turn it on as well, so I've inadvertently switched it on just by bumping it (I leave it plugged in and on a shelf so it is at hand, since I use it daily). I do worry I might drop or knock the lid off, as it does just kind of hover on top.Only time will tell if this continues to work as well and lasts longer than the past coffee grinders!JULY EDIT: used the grinder daily for flax seed for my horses, no problem, and today it is dead. No warning, no issue before now, just will not work at all. I'm hoping Cuisinart will replace it so will update if I hear from them, but really bummed as I liked the grinder for what I was doing. I took the rating down to two stars, which is based on liking it for all this time, but 3 months of use seems ridiculously short when this was not cheap.AUGUST UPDATE: yes, August...took over two weeks to get a final answer from Cuisinart. My 3 month old dead grinder is covered by warranty, but in order to get a new one, I have to pay to ship the defective unit back (by insured track able method, mind you!) AND pay $10 to ship the replacement. Uh, no...for $20 (what I figure that all will add up to), I'll go buy another coffee grinder knowing it will burn out after a few months. Will NOT buy another Cuisinart, that's for sure. Poor service just dropped my rating for this product to the lowest possible, a single star.

Easy to use. Easy clean-up. Quiet to operate.