No coffee this morning!

[CTyankee]

Oh, I had a whole bag of coffee this morning, but I SCREWED UP and bought a bag of the beans, not the ground! And I have no coffee grinder!

Eventually, my neighbor brought me some as he was heading out to food shop. Upon return he told me that our Stop and Shop had very bare shelves of coffee. BAD NEWS.

Is there such a thing as a little coffee grinder I could buy? We have a small kitchen and it never occurred to me that I would be in this predicament!

And yes, it is the end of the world when I can't start my day with coffee (and the New York Times).

[drray23]

1. There are plenty of small ones bullet style

that you can get for 20-30 dollars at Wal-Mart for example.

[Ocelot II]

2. You can get one for about $20 from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Home-Kitchen-Coffee-Grinders/zgbs/home-garden/289750

I have a grinder similar to one of the pictured ones, and I use it to grind beans to use in a reusable pod in my Keurig.

[hlthe2b]

3. Every time I look at my rarely used coffee grinder, I'm reminded of this...

And how coffee shops like Starbucks will NOT grind them, even if they are their beans unless they had just been purchased.

Buy a cheap grinder. It will pay you back on just these occasions.

[Casady1]

4. I like the Mr. coffee

which I got at Target. It has 3 settings so it takes the guess work out of the type of grind.

[ret5hd]

5. OK...if it was me in that situation...

I’d start with a food processor/immersion blender etc.

If that didn’t work I would try a hammer…one bean at a time, if need be.

If that didn’t work, I’d put some in a cloth sack or something and drive over it - back and forth - for a while and see if that worked.

If not, I would try to manufacture some TNT…I’ve heard it’s not that complicated…and use that to pulverize those beans.

By that time, my frustrated spouse is probably awake and would quietly point to the coffee grinder up on the top shelf of the cabinet.

[Ocelot II]

8. Or you could just eat the beans.

You can buy chocolate-covered espresso beans, which will wake you up nicely. Friend of mine absent-mindedly ate a whole package of them at one sitting and had to be peeled off the ceiling.

[wyn borkins]

10. Public Service Announcement

Don't bother driving over that bag-O'beans, as it just doesn't work. Noting that the bag typically gets destroyed long before the beans are even crushed...total waste of time and gasoline.

[Marthe48]

15. Yes, hammer!

N/t

[ret5hd]

16. I am VERY disappointed that not one person...

has recommended going to the TNT right off the bat.

[Marthe48]

18. It is a conundrum

I think you must have coffee before you handle dynamite.

[wyn borkins]

6. Small Hand-Powered Coffee Bean Grinder

I especially like this one; however, here are many more.

[pandr32]

7. That happened to me once

I got a hammer and put the beans in an old pillowcase and went to town. It worked--not perfectly, but sufficiently.

[Leghorn21]

9. Exactly my thought, pandr!!

Hammertime!!

I *WILL* HAVE MY MORNING COFFEE

[pandr32]

28. Go for it!

You can flatten some of the remaining larger pieces with a rolling pin over the bag after you have smashed the heck out of it.
After I did this I picked up and old wooden coffee grinder with the drawer in front. I now have an electric one but just in case of power failure the wooden one works great. Yay to fresh ground coffee!

[patphil]

11. Grinding whole beans just before use makes the best coffee.

If you're going to do that, buy a burr type mill. The blade type grinders don't produce uniform particle size, and don't allow you to adjust the size of the particles for different types of brews.

[BoomaofBandM]

12. We keep a grinder as we have both inadvertently bought beans instead of ground many times.

We just have to remember where we put the grinder.

[CTyankee]

13. I have a small kitchen so I would have an issue with any large addition to the coffee maker. However

I have been threatening to remove a slow cooker we''ve had since back in the day when they were all the rage and I thought I could do less cooking. It was taking up space. Now I can say removing the slow cooker is necessary in order to ASSURE you have your coffee, buster!

[BoomaofBandM]

14. Our grinder is about the size of a coffee cup. Well worth the investment.

I also have a crock pot, way too big for the 2 of us. Now we also have an instant pot. I am a little addicted to kitchen appliances. And my husband now does most cooking as I have some mobility issues, and he does not seem to understand I still get new stuff to make the chore easier for him.

[Marthe48]

19. I got a small electric grinder for my Mom

It was white, and I put an eagle decal on it for her, which she loved. She used it for years, and now my daughter uses it. I don't even remember the brand.

[CTyankee]

21. do they come assembled?

I cannot put together anything. I am a helpless doofus. Hubby is better but not by much.

[Ocelot II]

22. Yes. Just take it out of the box and plug it in.

It's a very simple mechanism - nothing to it but a little enclosed electric motor with a blade attached to grind the beans. You put the beans in it and hold the switch down until the beans are ground up as much as you want.

[CTyankee]

23. Well, that's really a sweet deal! However, I can usually screw up the simplest thing.

Thanks for suggesting it!

[Marthe48]

25. It did.

I got a tower fan and had to put the base on it. It took me a few tries and I had to read the instructions

Here is a liunk to electric coffee grinders at Target. I think I paid $10 for my Mom's at Big Lots, between 2000 and 2006

https://www.target.com/s/small+electric+coffee+grinder?Nao=0&sortBy=PriceLow

[Ocelot II]

20. They don't take up much room at all -

they have the footprint of a coffee mug. And coffee from freshly-ground beans is better than from pre-ground coffee.

[CTyankee]

24. what is the brand name, so I order on line?

and thanks again

[Ocelot II]

26. There are a lot of them, but this one is inexpensive

and got good Amazon reviews. https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-Coffee-Grinder-80335R/dp/B005EPRFKO/ref=zg_bs_289750_4/135-9063714-6632631?pd_rd_i=B005EPRFKO&psc=1 I've had mine for a long time so it isn't the same as this one, but it's similar.

[csziggy]

17. I have a little Hamilton Beach coffee grinder with a removable cup

Although I don't drink coffee any more. I use it to chop up herbs and spices. The ability to remove the top and wash it is great - my old coffee grinder didn't have that feature and smells always carried over to the next thing I ground.

I think this one was about $20 at MallWart.

[Emile]

27. You can buy a cheap electric coffee grinder for less than $20. I use mine to grind weed

and it works great!