[Sca-cooks] Mustard

[UlfR]

Barbara Benson <vox8 at mindspring.com> [2003.03.10] wrote:
> Not relating to mustard, but relating to a coffee/spice grinder. If
> your new grinder is like most then it has a metal bowl and blade set
> into plastic with a plastic cover.

Sort of anthropology question: my spice grinder (which came labelled as
coffe grinder on the box, silly them) is one of the old fashioned
hand-cranked ones.  A hopper on top, and a crank, with a small wooden
drawer in the bottom where the spices collect. Are most others here
using electrical grinders?

> A word of caution - do not grind cloves in your grinder, the clove oil
> will eat into the plastic and become one with the grinder. Or maybe
> not, but I have had that problem and it destroyed one of my grinders.

I'm now trying to remember if it was all moths, or just some species of
moth, that use eugenol (clove oil) as a sexual attractant. But yes,
cloves contain oils, and oils and plastic are ofen a bad combination,
unless you want to dissolve the plastic.

UlfR

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