Cuisinart SG-10 Electric Spice-and-Nut Grinder Stainless Black Mini

I have owned this grinder since March 2023. I have purchased many different brands of spice grinders over the years, in search of the most efficient one. Krups offered the best performance of all the others I have tried, until now. I can't overstate enough that this Cuisinart outshines all others. I LOVE that the container is large enough to grind big batches. It will grind way more at a time than the others, and do a better job,...grinding flawlessly. There is no need to pick it up and shake it to get spices to fall over the blades. All the parts above the motor can go in the dishwasher. The only thing I have to clean manually sometimes is to brush out the dust on top of the motor. With the others, I always had to put rice in them to clean them, and odors remained after cleaning. It took longer to clean them than it did to grind the spices. It does have a storage compartment for the cord, but I have found it to be a struggle and time-consuming to push back in and it feels like I might damage the cord, so I just wrap the cord around the motor and secure the plug part for storage. They could use some improvement with that situation... Still, I give this one 5+ stars and will purchase another when this one konks out. (within reason) Highly, highly recommended! Read more

I bought this grinder with some trepidation because the first several reviews were quite negative. I'm glad I bought it because it is proving to be a star. I use it for a range of things - hard legumes and spices, including Indian spices, seeds, softer spices, breadcrumbs, etc. I've occasionally used it with wet grinding of pastes (ginger, garlic, chutneys, etc) if it's not too runny. It has several unique features that are difficult to find in a grinder this size: - Its size is just right - small enough to grind small quantities of things like spices without having a huge leftover to store for weeks; large enough that you don't need too many rounds when grinding larger quantities - Blade design seems efficient. It seems to completely pulverize anything I put in it (including hard spices) in a small fraction of the time it takes for other grinders (like coffee grinders). It does this so fast that the motor has never been even close to overheating. And it seems to work well always - I haven't yet discovered anything it won't grind well - So far, its longevity is good (about 8 months) - it has lasted longer than all of the highly rated coffee grinders I tried to use for these purposes - Cleanup is trivial. The importance of this is hard to overstate. Other grinders such as coffee grinders claim easy cleanup but this is an order of magnitude better. You can simply take the bowl and lid off completely and put them in the dishwasher and they will come out fully clean. No more fiddling with brushes etc. to try to remove the bits and residues of spices that are left in the fixed bowls of other grinders. The only concerns so far: - The lid has a rubber ring that seems necessary for a good seal; if that is missing some of the spice/ground material might escape the bowl during grinding. The rubber ring is not small, but it's easy to lose in the dishwasher etc. if not careful - Wet grinding seems a bit risky. The bowl can allow liquid to escape through the bottom and this could possibly enter the motor casing and damage the motor (though this hasn't happened to me so far). So this may not be suitable for wet grinding and isn't quite like a miniature full-featured grinder, which is what is really needed. Pretty glad to have found this after trying to use coffee grinders as spice grinders for several years with limited success. Read more

Great gadget. Simple and easy to use. Very quick grinding, most of the time just a few seconds are required. I use it for spices- whole allspice, milk thistle seeds, coriander, etc- and it works beautifully. Put the spices (or whatever) into the cup, press on the top, and in no time at all you have a powder. Very quiet. Very easy to clean. What else could you want? And a very nice price too. Read more

I purchased this to grind flax seed and other hard seeds for my horses, and so far, it has worked well. I'd burnt up too many coffee grinders doing this in the past, so spent a bit more on this Cuisinart grinder and it definitely is better built. I've been using it daily for a few weeks and it has performed well so far. It does not grind super fine, so if that is what you need, it won't do that (no way to adjust the grind), but it does seem to be up to the task of grinding really hard seeds, which were too much for my previous coffee grinders. I use fenugreek seed in cookies I make for the horses (yes, they are spoiled!), and those ground up well, which was a good test as they killed the last coffee grinder. I left one star off only because, as a previous reviewer observed, you have to store it with the lid on, and that is the trigger to turn it on as well, so I've inadvertently switched it on just by bumping it (I leave it plugged in and on a shelf so it is at hand, since I use it daily). I do worry I might drop or knock the lid off, as it does just kind of hover on top. Only time will tell if this continues to work as well and lasts longer than the past coffee grinders! JULY EDIT: used the grinder daily for flax seed for my horses, no problem, and today it is dead. No warning, no issue before now, just will not work at all. I'm hoping Cuisinart will replace it so will update if I hear from them, but really bummed as I liked the grinder for what I was doing. I took the rating down to two stars, which is based on liking it for all this time, but 3 months of use seems ridiculously short when this was not cheap. AUGUST UPDATE: yes, August...took over two weeks to get a final answer from Cuisinart. My 3 month old dead grinder is covered by warranty, but in order to get a new one, I have to pay to ship the defective unit back (by insured track able method, mind you!) AND pay $10 to ship the replacement. Uh, no...for $20 (what I figure that all will add up to), I'll go buy another coffee grinder knowing it will burn out after a few months. Will NOT buy another Cuisinart, that's for sure. Poor service just dropped my rating for this product to the lowest possible, a single star. Read more