Grinding coffee beans in the Olde Time Nut Grinder, now sold by Hampton Farms?
Has anyone tried to grind coffee beans in the Hampton Farms peanut butter machine? It seems to me that it would work well. Thanks. Larry
Best Answer
I would not expect it to work well. It might not even work at all.
Nuts are very oily, relatively difficult to crush, and when crushed do not immediately become powder, but tend to require extended pressure and grinding to reduce them to a paste. Once pasted, they need to be pushed out of the machine with some force. Presumably the Hampton Farms grinder does all of these things.
Coffee beans, on the other hand, are moderately oily to dry, are delicate and crushed easily, and can be reduced to a fine powder in seconds. Once powdered, they fly out of the machine on their own.
You can see some of the difference in the burr mechanisms. Here's the peanut grinder:
And here's a conical burr grinder:
As you can see, those two grinding burrs are very different in design.
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Answer 2
Can't comment on the machine itself, as it seems like a fairly large specialized unit (from googling it). However, grinding coffee the main thing you'd be looking for is being able to control:
- Grind Size:
- Depending on how you brew your coffee, you want different grind sizes (eg: super fine for espresso, med for drip, coarse for french press)
- Grind Consistency:
- If you have some coffe coming out coarse and some coming out fine, it will affect the taste of the final product.
So you'd have to evaluate whether you can control the above two variables. An additional thing (possibly the main thing) I'd be concerned about is the taste of other product (peanuts?) crossing into the coffee. It doesn't seem practical to keep a dedicated peanut butter machine for grinding coffee.
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