Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1953 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Rashmian Ltd
• Model: CCM101CH
• Released on: 2009-07-21
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 5.00" w x 3.00" l,

Manufacturer's Description
The Chrome Wet & Dry Grinder is a versatile product as it allows you to grind wet herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables and within the same bowl and by using the same blade it can grind dry coffee beans, nuts and peppercorns. It is equipped with a powerful 280Watt motor that enables you to grind to a paste and puree or to a powder respectively. This dual function, means it can be used as any other coffee grinder, but the wet grinding gives the added ability to do more and allows you to make baby food, yoghurt dips and sauces. This product is finished in the ever-popular chrome which gives it the stylish look that meets the present consumer demands. The complete bowl and cup is also dishwasher safe.

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Customer Reviews

Three times Broke the charm
I had bought this grinder 3 times. and 3 times the motor housing broke after about 1 yr of reasonable usage. let me put it this way, this is a good grinder except one fatal flaw- the base or the motor housing starts cracking and then water collects inside shorting the machine.
Each time I bought this grinder because of 2 reasons- a) lack of other alternatives in the market in the same category b) I thought that maybe by chance I had a bad statistical sample.

However, after the third time it broke in the same fashion I have made up my mind - I am not buying this product AGAIN!!!

Nice piece of kit - shame the bowl isn't bigger
Very impressed with this - it certainly takes a lot of effort out of making up pastes etc. I was a bit wary of other users comments on this site but if you're careful to only use the grinder for 5 second bursts and allow 5 seconds to rest between bursts (as recommended by Revel) then I'm sure the grinder will last the distance.

To test, I filled the bowl with cashew nuts and with 5 seconds of grinding they were almost entirely reduced to powder. Although there were still a few chunks left, another quick blitz and they were gone. This would have taken several minutes hard labour even with my massive granite mortar and pestel.

The next test was a bit more severe. I had dry fried about 100g of desicated coconut, 12 garlic cloves, cinnamon bark, cloves, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, 4 dried thai chilies and a whole chopped onion. All together, this lot practically filled a 12" frying pan.

The grinder bowl is on the small side so grinding the above mixture had to be done in many batches. It took 3-4 5 second bursts to grind each batch down to a fairly fine paste. Between bursts, I found that lifting the bowl and hood off the unit and giving it a good shake was required as the mixture of dry and wet ingredients stuck to the sides of the bowl. Maybe grinding wet and dry ingredients seperately would be better. I did consider adding a bit of water to each batch, but didn't want to make my paste too wet.

The end result was quite a fine paste which when used in a curry was still a little bit "bitty" but on the whole a lot smoother than previous attempts.

If I was designing version 2 of this product, I'd make the bowl a good inch wider and higher to accomodate more ingredients in one go.

the best grinder I've ever had, but flawed
A wet and dry grinder is the most indispensable item in our kitchen, since my family loves to grind up pastes, pesto and the like on a daily basis - not to mention grinding spices and nuts

This grinder, when it works, does the best grinding job I've ever experienced in the home. But all sorts of things go wrong with it - in two years I've actually had 3 of these, all broken - I'm now on my 4th. You may think I'm a glutton for punishment, but like I said, absolutely nothing out there works as well as these little monsters.

My advice to anyone desperate for a good grinder is, buy it from Lakeland, (they will happily replace it for you) and use it with your fingers crossed.