Spice Grinder Accessory Kit

If you have the Kitchenaid coffee grinder, these are perfect to keep the two separate. They work great! I do wish they could grind finer, but nothing a mortar and pestle can't easily finish.

If you use the Kitchen Aid Coffee Grinder (BCG111OB) just for coffee beans, then the basic grinder is all you need. However, we grind other things such as flax seed, which the coffee grinder cup does not handle, well. The accessory kit with the spice cup and lid is perfect for grinding small seeds and spices. The blade design is completely different and does an excellent job of QUICKLY turning seeds into a fine powder that is much better for consumption, far better than the standard coffee grinder cup. Because of the lid, none of the powder gets out, which is a real mess with just the basic coffee grinder cup.

The Kitchen Aide coffee grinder works well. It can grind spices. BUT; this is so much better than using the coffee grinder insert. If you look carefully at the picture, you see that the blades have been bent so that they get down closer to the bottom of the vessel, doing a better job on small spices. It also has a fairly tightly fitting lid that minimizes the dust created when really pulverizing some herbs and spices from getting out of the vessel. The vessel is also smaller which seems to keep the spices recirculating through the blades. I have never needed to grind more than once due to the smaller size however, it seems plenty big enough. The only problem you may have is stopping before your spices get to the powder stage and some uneven-ness of the resulting spice. I just tend to take it until the largest bits are small enough, assuming that with fresh herbs and spices, too small is not a problem.

Works great for spices.

Ok so this product works well. As far as taste is concerned its kind off irrelevant except to say that i prefer fine ground spices so that in some instances you may avoid an odd mouth feel being added to your food from large spice pieces. This easily ground my basil to a fine powder and I was happy about that. My main complaint with this product has nothing to do with the seller or the sellers prices specifically. The seller prices were right in line with the normal retail price charged by kitchenaid. I think the fact that I just spent more on an accessory then I spent on the actual machine is pretty ridiculous. The blame here would go entirely to KitchenAid for having such a high-price point on their products. The grinder I purchased elsewhere only came with the coffee grinding part of the receptacle and it cost 25.99. This item contains 2 of the receptacles for grinding spices along with 3 plastic lids, 2 normal and one with shaker holes. This is almost exactly the same thing as the coffee receptacle except it’s a little bit shorter allowing you to put a plastic cap on top of it so that the spices being ground don’t go all over the inside of the machine and the blade is very slightly different in shape. Its really kind of ridiculous to have to pay MORE for this specific container. Granted, for $30 this does include 2 of the containers and lids. I dont have any reason to need 2 of them so I would have been much happier buying 1 and spending $15. Unfortunately kitchenaid does not package them in single packs. I kind of feel like I got ripped off by kitchenaid. They clearly sell these in two packs only so you are forced to buy 2 instead of one, causing them to make more money. None of this is the sellers fault, this is just how kitchenaid does business. The product does work very well.

the lid doesn't’ screw on tight enough so there is always spillage.

Buen producto, muelo los especias a la perfección

I bought the grinder purposely for this spice package. Yes! There is a method to my madness, lol! I have an electric coffee grinder and a manual one set up for my percolator, I will use my new Kitchen Aid when I want something really fast through one of my single drip filters or if someone wants to try one of our flavored coffees and they have an automatic drip. But I am really looking forward to making my own spice rubs and I have a recipe for an awesome sounding Honey Mustard that I can't wait to tweek up. It was a great price combo and I am so glad I was looking at the right time and Kitchen Aid has always had solid products and I have never had an issue with any of mine.