A Secret Function of Old Coffee Grinders! They Were Used for Something More Than Their Name Suggests…

While modern coffee grinders, thanks to their design and new technologies, sell like hot buns, the old ones have one feature that matters the most: reliability. The grinders have prepared coffee for thousands of cups and mugs. I can still remember myself grinding the coffee at my grandmother’s place and how wonderfully I felt doing it.

You can only get the full flavor and smell of the beverage if you grind the beans yourself. Coffee made like this does not compare to anything else. And nothing can give you as much energy.

Getting good quality coffee did not use to be easy, though. Luckily, now we can choose any kind of coffee from anywhere in the world, selecting it depending on our intensity and flavor preferences.

Thanks to its blades coffee grinders were also used to grind black pepper. As there were not so many pepper grinders available, people had to handle it somehow. As nobody likes big pieces of pepper on their plate (and that’s what they got if they used mortar and pestle only), coffee grinders solved that issue perfectly.

There are legends that our grandparents used old grinders to stash candy there. Was it really the case?