[Sca-cooks] coffee mills, was: galangale

[Stefan li Rous]

  Magdalena vander Brugghe asked:
> Speaking of using coffee mills for grinding spices, how do ya'll
> effectively clean your coffee/spice mills?  Obviously, I can't really
> put mine in the dishwasher.  It has so many hard to reach places around
> and under the blades that I never feel it's effectively clean.  Not 
> that
> it's a germ hazard, but I really don't want my cinnamon to taste like
> cumin and vice versa.
Not surprisingly, that has been discussed here before. I believe the 
most common suggestion, and this can be found in period as well, is to 
grind a bit of bread after the spice.

I believe you can find the comments about this in my spices-msg and 
probably other spice files in the Florilegium.

Is your grinder a motorized one? If so, I'm not sure putting it in the 
dishwasher is a good idea.
Stefan
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