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

I purchased this to grind seeds, nuts and make flour. It is perfection! I've made chickpea and oat flour in seconds. Grinds flax seeds and walnuts into fine powder in seconds. It is exactly what I was looking for. Easy to clean up, too. Very powerful for what I need.

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 use this for nuts. Pecans it does a wonderful job. Macadamia nuts are a different story. They are so high in fat that this device makes it into almost a butter. I have to use a small amount at a time to avoid this. Not an issue with the device, just the nature of the nut. Took a star away for poor cleanability. Cannot take the cup apart so bought a brush to get under the blade. Really is a poor sanitary design and Cuisinart knows better than this. No way to clean between the blade and the housing.

I have owned this grinder since March 2023.I have purchased many different brands of spice grinders over the years, in search of the most efficient one. Krups offered the best performance of all the others I have tried, until now. I can't overstate enough that this Cuisinart outshines all others.I LOVE that the container is large enough to grind big batches. It will grind way more at a time than the others, and do a better job,...grinding flawlessly. There is no need to pick it up and shake it to get spices to fall over the blades.All the parts above the motor can go in the dishwasher. The only thing I have to clean manually sometimes is to brush out the dust on top of the motor. With the others, I always had to put rice in them to clean them, and odors remained after cleaning. It took longer to clean them than it did to grind the spices.It does have a storage compartment for the cord, but I have found it to be a struggle and time-consuming to push back in and it feels like I might damage the cord, so I just wrap the cord around the motor and secure the plug part for storage. They could use some improvement with that situation... Still, I give this one 5+ stars and will purchase another when this one konks out. (within reason)Highly, highly recommended!

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.