On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 10:15:14 AM UTC-6, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Helpful person wrote:
> >dsi1 wrote:
> >>
> >> My intention is to use a coffee mill to grind the crap out of those peppercorns. I feel like sneezing already!
> >
> >I don't know from personal experience but I have read that using a coffee "grinder", if it's the type with the
> >rotating blade, heats up the spice (or coffee) and does not give as good a result as a mill.
>
> Those electric whirly blade things do indeed heat spices and the end
> result is also too fine. The Atlas mills are in fact Turkish/Greek
> coffee mills (issued to their military) but do an excellent job with
> peppercorns... and it's simple to adjust the grind. I have the kind
> that catches the grinds in a small metal cup that covers the base,
> it's easy to grind enough to fill a pepper shaker... the large crank.
> on top makes grinding effortless. Beware, several companies sell
> Atlas knock offs. This is the real deal:
> http://www.pugsly.com/Mills.htm

Did you put a temperature probe in and measure the temps ShelDUM, or are you just going from the heresay people have been yammering about for ever?

I haven't, but I can't imagine that a "coffee slicer" as I call them would heat up the coffee (which was roasted anyway, remember?) to the temp point where it would start affecting the coffee flavors negatively.

John Kuthe...