Older IS better! Plus, Coffee Tip

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This seems so outrageous, I just wanted to share. But first: Coffee tip. Seems a silly thing not to know, but I just recently discovered that my blender grinds coffee beans just fine. The outrageous thing is that my blender(Osterizer) is over 45 years old , maybe 50, I’ll never know as I bought it used! It crushes ice and hasn’t been treated gently.

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Elmer, as I said, we are not overly picky re coffee, but actually the beans in the blender turned out quite tasty. i was careful to only grind a very small amount at a time , maybe 1/3 cup per spin. Anyway, my post was not meant to suggest the blender for grinding coffee, but discovering it would do in a pinch. And! Mostly for the amazing lifespan of my old machine.

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jrb451
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As an Espresso drinker, I much prefer a burr grinder.
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chloebud
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Not big coffee drinkers but I had that exact same blender. I think it was a wedding gift in 1977. It was great but finally died a couple years ago.☹️ I highly doubt you get the same quality these days.
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OutsidePlaying
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I had the exact blender years ago. That thing made a lot of frozen margaritas and pina coladas in the 70’s.
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HU-279332973
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I thought it was a law that you had to own one.

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rob333 (zone 7b)
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Awesome!

I love coffee so much I want to be able to adjust my grind to which type I'm drinking, almost powder for espresso, to pretty coarsely ground for a percolator. But I'm very particular. I bet that would work quite well for a drip coffee maker. And it's good to have a backup, so thank you!

I think we've been through every permutation of Osterizer, and now Ninja, blender there is. I would bet a million dollars we had that one at some point but my mom and I are so freaking clumsy, that was probably back before they had replacement parts for the glass jar portion, and we probably moved on after that one broke. Heck, I even made my own baby food (she's 26 now), and just blenderized whatever it was we had for dinner for hers. I use blenders a lot
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OP: i couldnt see how to post on Kt. My post and this response was via copy and paste from other side. Ugh.
FYI, I only discovered the coffee bean trick when I bought beans by mistake. We are not coffee afficianados and use the ground kind. So, doubt the aroma will be around long, Years past, it pureed baby food, made cocktails and milkshakes. Brought out nowadays primarily for cream soups. ‘Tis sad how short they all last …but that’s been cried over enough. It is not going to change.
clt3
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I also had the exact same one. Wedding gift in 1976.
Elmer J Fudd
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The problem with using something like that to grind beans is to get the duration correct so that the grind is neither too small nor too large. Not a likely thing to accomplish. Coffee grinders have settings to choose from, depending on the intended brewing method, that take care of that chore.

Personally, if I'd bought the wrong thing and didn't have a coffee grinder, I'd either return it (or, if opened, toss it) and get another bag in the form I could use.
arcy_gw
last year
Using a blender for a lot of things I grind up is a challenge. The bottom just gets too small so it takes a lot to get the product down to the blades.
Olychick
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I also had that exact blender, probably a wedding gift in 1972! I am very fussy about my pour over coffee and beans and I would totally make do by using the blender to grind beans, if needed.- what a waste to even consider throwing them away. Not that much different than the Melitta grinder we used for years before getting an upgrade. I like to grind mine to nearly a powder/espresso grind so it doesn't allow the water to flow through the filter too quickly.

eta; I've ground beans in my Cuisinart when my grinder broke, until I could get a new one and I've ground them with a mortar and pestle when the electricity was off, until I finally bought a manual grinder for powerless times! I can heat water on my wood stove or on a propane grill and still enjoy coffee when the electricity is off.
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