Equipment: What Spice Grinder Should I Buy?

Each week J. Kenji Lopez-Alt ( KA Cuisine and GoodEater.org ) will drop by with a list of tools or a tool you might want to stock your kitchen with—if you haven’t already. Kenji also writes The Food Lab column here on SE. You can fan The Food Lab on Facebook for play-by-plays on his future kitchen tests and recipe experiments. —The Mgmt. As I’ve pointed out in my 3rd Guide to Essential Kitchen Hand Tools , a mortar and pestle is really the best way to grind spices if you are only an occasional spice-user, and don’t very often use more than a few tablespoons at a time. It’s quick, effective, easy to clean, and gives you great control over the finished product. But just this past weekend, I found myself with 18 pounds of brisket, 22 pounds of ribs, and 20 pounds of pork shoulder, all of which required a rub before an all-nighter of barbecueing before the Fourth of July. That’s an awful lot of grinding, and for times like those, it calls for breaking out the big guns: an electric spice grinder. For all intents and purposes, a spice grinder and a coffee grinder are essentially the same rebranded product, so we won’t distinguish between them in …

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