by March 31st, 2009. Filed under: cuisinart blender.
i want to ground up a dozen bags full of various chinese herbs and plant matter into a fairly fine powder. Obviously I don't want to take all week doing it in a cuisinart or small blender. I've looked into leaf shredders but think it might not be fine enough. Though I don't want to spend a thousand dollars on something. Ideal would be some addaptation I couldmake to a power tool or some common gardening tool, something I could rent.
Use a restuarant sized kitchen liquidiser.
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March 31st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
How big is a "bag"? and how fine is "fairly fine"? I think that for your budget the Cuisinart might actually be the best method. I also don't think a leaf shredder is likely to be fine enough. While there is no doubt industrial equipment that could do this, I can't think of where one might rent such things, and I think that a thousand dollars (that you don't want to spend) would hardly even be a start for an industrial grinder.
If the material is very dry you might look into a grain mill, there are small home use size ones available for much less than $1000 and many are continuous feed rather than the batch feed you'd have with the Cuisinart,. Here is a site for some examples: http://www.cooksquarters.com/grain-mills.htm but I don't really know how well they will work for non-grain material
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March 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Use a restuarant sized kitchen liquidiser.
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