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I just want a vvvv simple coffee grinder

28 replies

Pruni · 24/04/2006 15:16

not to mention vvvvvv cheap (like, £2 or thereabouts)

argos doesn't do them (snurk).
need to do it online as Oxford has no shopping of any note.
I want it for grinding seeds so burr vs blade and issues of bean-burn not a prob.
remember the cheap as chips coffee grinder you had when you were a student and thought it was so cool? I would like that one please

help

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TwiglettTheWereHedgehog · 24/04/2006 15:28

a coffee grinder as a student

f'in' 'ell pruni where the 'ell did you go to uni? Poshville College, University of Posh?

TwiglettTheWereHedgehog · 24/04/2006 15:29

we had 'My Mum's' brand coffee made with pure chicory beans Grin

Pruni · 24/04/2006 15:38

I went to Edinburgh
It used to be full of Oxbridge rejects
I mean chocka
We were just debating whether then no-fees thing for Scottish students means the Rah-Rah brigade will shun Edinburgh as more Scots applying

Anyway I was aspiring to be like them
(I failed btw)

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MrsBadger · 24/04/2006 15:42

Whittards in the Westgate has them but are substantially more than £2, ditto that posh coffee/tea place at the back of the Covered Market.

I'd try charity shops - all those posh students must get rid of their rejects somewhere.
Or Boswells have granite pestles & mortars heavily (teehee) reduced if you fancied some muscle-building action.

Pruni · 24/04/2006 15:44

Ooh MrsB are you local? Grin
I only want a £7.99 or thereabouts grinder...hence haven't tried the ones you suggest.
(Come to think of it Boswell's might be the place.)

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motherinferior · 24/04/2006 15:46

You could have a meetup over coffee grinders. Does the Covered Market butcher still have stuffed animals like, ahem, badgers?

motherinferior · 24/04/2006 15:46

You could have a meetup over coffee grinders. Does the Covered Market butcher still have stuffed animals like, ahem, badgers?

Pruni · 24/04/2006 15:50

Stuffed? Gutted and dripping more like. Yes, in winter, whole stags, ostriches, turkeys.....and hordes of tourists taking photos.

Surprised envirinmental healf hasn't been onto 'em.

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MrsBadger · 24/04/2006 15:51

I might be... Grin

have just looked up Whittard's and [spray]ed at the cost of their \link{http://www.whittard.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=wg14976&cid=ce5020&language=en-GB\basic model}.
At that price I'd get the M&S \link{http://www.marksandspencer.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=532&Product_Id=1831381\electric} one and save myself the effort.

Will keep my eyes open in the charity shops and tip you off if I see one.

moondog · 24/04/2006 15:51

I went to Edinburgh too.
No coffee grinders in my crowd (just drunkards and druggies.)
Hey,try finding a mechanical meat grinder.That is a nightmare too.

I often relate the story of going to some hideous white goods shed looking for a dryer and saying to the sales assistant trying to give me some bullshit about inbuilt aromatherapy and Advanced Decreasing Symbiotic Systems
'I want one with two buttons. On/Off and Hot/Not so Hot. That is it.'

Lucycat · 24/04/2006 15:52

How about \link{http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-in-box-coffee-grinder_W0QQitemZ4456661608QQcategoryZ3202QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\this one on ebay?}

MrsBadger · 24/04/2006 15:54

moondog, did you find the meat grinder in the end? If not, \link{http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk/product.aspx/!10118\Lakeland} is calling you...

Pruni · 24/04/2006 15:54

Hey Mrs B - thanks for those
I am resigned to eating my hemp seeds whole. Grin

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Lucycat · 24/04/2006 15:54

or \link{http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Russell-Hobbs-Coffee-Grinder-New_W0QQitemZ4456687033QQcategoryZ20671QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\this one?}

NotQuiteCockney · 24/04/2006 15:55

Nothing wrong with whole hemp seeds, but they do just work as roughage, not as food, iyswim.

moondog · 24/04/2006 15:56

Hey thanks Mrs B! Smile
That would do nicely.
However,I really want a plain metal one like we had when I was a kid.Why is everything plastic these days....sigh.

Pruni · 24/04/2006 15:59

Hey moondog when were you there? (Knowing your job I wonder if we crossed paths.)
I know just the type of meat grinder you mean, we got one form Habitat, believe it or not, for FIL, but years ago.
Lucycat I am Blush that I forgot ebay...

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moondog · 24/04/2006 16:02

Pruni,85-87.
Then I dropped out.
Remember being constantly cold and miserable and surrounded by arsehole rahs (and I am a product of an all girls boarding school myself so prob. have higher tolerance threshold than most.).

Went back to uni a few years later though and then met dh so glad really.

How about you???

Pruni · 24/04/2006 16:04

90-94.
It is bloody cold and windy.
I am moving back. I do periodically wince at the thought of the money I am going to spend on thermals.

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MrsBadger · 24/04/2006 16:05

gosh, the things I do for you lot
metal mincers \link{http://www.dentonscatering.com/acatalog/peelers___dryers___dicers___mincers.html\here} or \link{http://www.headcook.co.uk/kitchen-mincers-c-4_139.html?id=39c006c791cd9e85db521bb8079713ab\here}

think the plastic ones have the advantage of going in that newfangled dishwasher thing...

moondog · 24/04/2006 16:05

Ah yes,remember you referring to going to live there.
Are you Scottish?
I lived in Marchmont. Seemed to be permanently walking home late at night,freezing half to death asfter some dreadful drunken evening in Cowgate.

MrsBadger · 24/04/2006 16:06

and Boswells has a \link{http://www.boswellsofoxford.co.uk/product_list.asp?strSubCategory=Coffee%20Mills\website} would you believe.

Something new every day and all that...

moondog · 24/04/2006 16:09

MrsB,you are an absolute star!!! Grin
That is exactly what I am after.
How kind of you!!

MrsBadger · 24/04/2006 16:18

no worries, glad my well-honed Google skills come in handy
Grin

hewlettsdaughter · 24/04/2006 16:37

coo! didn't know boswells had a website! wonders will never cease.

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