I got my very own coffee grinder after using the wifes to grind habs, she ground some coffee and got quite a wakeup from it :) Now she actually adds some hab powder to her coffee :):) Oatmeal Jack >Marilyn, > >I too, have a second coffee grinder (exactly like the first--got it at a >yard sale, new for a buck!) to grind chiles. I haven't added anything to >the grind other than peppers but I spose you could. Might have to clean it >afterwards so as not to flavor your next batch if you didn't want to do >the same thing again. For me, I don't clean mine after each use with rice >or whatever because I generally got toss in a mix of dried peppers, grind >and stash in my portable containers. > >Oh, and on the sister thing....my husband is brain dead in the morning and >the first task at hand is to make coffee. He is cheerful, just plain >stupid. I am waiting for the day that he makes a mistake and uses the >wrong one. It is labeled but I have to consider the source! Would surely >wake him up! > >Linda in Upstate >who has had to cover my garden for a few nights while the frost has danced >around it, threateningly (carp, is that a wird?) > > >> >>I ground up my first batch of dried peppers in my new coffee grinder. It >>worked real well, made nice powder. Do any of you powder experts add >>anything besides peppers to the powder? >> >>Marilyn >>Who is considering not telling her Coffee Snob sister about the previous use >>of the coffee grinder the next time she comes to take over the kitchen..... > Join the Carp Anglers Group at: http://www.carpanglersgroup.org Go Fishing with Jack on the Potomac River, MD, USA at: http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/rapids/8155