HOW TO GRIND COFFEE WITHOUT A GRINDER?

 HOW TO GRIND COFFEE WITHOUT A GRINDER?

We have already talked on our website about the methods to make coffee without a coffee machine , but now we go to the most difficult one: Can we grind coffee without a grinder ? It is rare that someone accustomed to making coffee at home does not have a mill, but ... let's face the unforeseen event.

It may happen that a package of coffee beans arrives in our hands (some gift, promotion, gifts ...) but we do not have a coffee grinder at home. Or simply if we have it, but when it comes to making our coffee every day we see that it has spoiled or is not working properly.

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Well, the most immediate solution is to give up coffee. But if you want to try to grind it, or at least achieve something minimally similar to a proper grinding, we are going to tell you how to grind coffee beans without a grinder through various alternative methods.

NOTE: We already anticipate that the result with any of these methods will not be remotely similar to the grinding that you are going to obtain using any kind of grinder, even if it is the most basic or cheapest on the market.

Alternatives to grinding coffee beans without a grinder at home

Of course, before trying any of these methods, we must be clear that the result will not be a normal grinding, nor will we have precise control over its thickness. So the effectiveness of this alternative grind (to call it somehow) is not going to be the same depending on the type of coffee you want to prepare later.

Once we have made our approach clear, we are going to look at some “ homemade ” options for grinding coffee beans without a grinder .

With a mallet or hammer

We started rough. If you don't have a grinder at home, you can try grinding the coffee with a mallet, or a DIY hammer. Kitchen mallets (for example, those used to tenderize meat) will not be effective due to the hardness of the grains: you will need a weight tool .

And, of course, properly protect your countertop or table with kitchen rags so as not to damage anything. Our advice: put the grains that you are going to grind in a Zip freezer bag. And then wrap it in some extra cloth before hitting it.

Grinding the coffee beans with a hammer is not going to be very effective, because you will have little control over the grind. Rather than grinding, you are going to limit yourself to shredding the grains without a trace of mercy.

We only recommend it if you have no choice (because after all, everyone has a hammer handy at home) and the coffee beans are not of excessive quality. Otherwise ... mortal sin!

With a rolling pin

Knead the coffee beans? Well yes, but pressing a little to strengthen. If you do not know how to grind coffee without a grinder , using the roller technique you can at least aspire to obtain a uniform result. Of course, before starting, we recommend the same as in the previous point: put the grains that you are going to grind into a freezer bag. Otherwise, half of the ground beans will stick to the countertop or the surface of the roller due to static electricity.

With a kitchen mortar

Grinding the coffee beans with a mortar is the system that is most similar to a pair of grinding wheels or milling cutters acting on the beans. In this case, the work of the grinding wheels of the mill is carried out by the mortar mallet against the wall of the same.

It is one of the techniques for grinding coffee beans without a grinder that can give you results that are more similar to those of a specific grinding tool ... but at the same time it is also one of the most difficult because it depends entirely on your skill and your movement of wrist (not just about tapping, but rather “tapping and dragging”).

It is interesting to use poor quality grains at the beginning, to practice your technique.

Can I grind coffee in the Thermomix?

Perhaps of all the "unorthodox" techniques, this is the one that offers the most acceptable results. Although we understand that not everyone has a Thermomix, or at least a high-end kitchen robot at home.

What should we do to grind the coffee beans in a Thermomix ? Well, simply put the coffee beans in the glass and program 1 minute speed 5-10. That is to say: we start at 5 and we progressively increase it to the maximum.

When we have finished, we simply open the glass, we see the fineness of the grinding that we have obtained, and if we need a finer grinder we continue programming speed 10 in periods of 30 in 30 seconds. This last step must be repeated until the grain is ground to the fineness we are looking for.

Grind the coffee with a mixer or mixer

From our point of view, this is the least recommended option of all. It consists of taking a hand blender or a conventional glass blender , assuming that we have any of these appliances at home but we do not have a coffee grinder, and we grind the beans inside more or less as we have explained in the previous section.

The problem of grinding coffee with a mixer ? Well, in it you do not have the power or speed control that the Thermomix has, and that the quality of its blades is not even close to that of a kitchen robot ... not only are you going to get a poor grinding but you can damage your apparatus.