The first and simplest model is a single chamber with metal grinding teeth and a lid that either snaps or screws into place. The underside of the lid also has grinding teeth that work in tandem with the teeth inside the main chamber. To use this type of weed grinder, simply press a couple of nugs down into the grinding teeth, put the lid on, and twist. As you twist, the grinding teeth in the main chamber and on the lid chop the herb into small, uniform pieces. In addition to this simple, single-chamber design, there are grinders that function in a similar fashion but that include multiple chambers stacked onto each other.
The top chamber contains the grinding teeth where you place your nugs before twisting the lid back and forth to break up the herb. There are a series of holes in the bottom of this top grinding chamber, through which the herb falls into a catch located directly beneath the grinding teeth. To access the ground-up herb, unscrew the catch chamber from the grinding chamber and pinch or dump out the herb you're going to use. Multi-chambered grinders typically have a mesh screen across the bottom of the catching.
The screen filters out the chunks of plant matter from the much finer, powdery kief , which falls through the screen and into a kief catcher. Some grinders have multiple screens to separate out the super fine grains of kief from the larger grains of kief. Either way, these multi-chambered grinders allow you to isolate and keep the cannabinoid-rich kief for future use. Finally, some weed grinders use rotating blades rather than grinding teeth. These grinders can produce a more uniform final product, as the blades cleanly slice the herb rather than forcefully grinding it apart into small chunks.
The problem with grinders is that they eventually get gunked up with small pieces of plant matter, powdery kief, and sticky resin. When this happens, the lid can get stuck and difficult to work with, and it can be a challenge to rotate the grinding teeth or cutting blades back and forth.
When this happens, it's time to clean your grinder. Here's everything you'll need to get your grinder into like-new condition:. There are two main ways to clean a grinder. The first way is faster and simpler but won't allow you to save the plant material leftover in the grinder. The second way takes a bit longer and requires some extra steps but will let you harvest some potentially potent residue for future use. Begin by taking apart and separating each chamber of your grinder.
At this point, you can quickly harvest a little bit of leftover plant material by dumping out and saving as much of the loose leftovers as you can. Place the grinder into a container of some sort—a Ziploc bag or large glass jar work best. Fill the container with enough isopropyl alcohol to fully submerge all parts of the grinder. If you are a regular consumer and use your grinder a lot, you will see how sticky trichomes and resin that cover cannabis flowers accumulate and get stuck both to the walls of the grinder as well as the grinder screens.
This can be a very annoying thing, especially if your grinder screens are not removable since they can get completely clogged. Luckily for you, we have discovered a couple of methods that will help you clean your grinder screen and leave it as good as new. There are actually just a few methods to efficiently clean your grinder screens. One of the easiest and most reliable methods you can use to clean your grinder screen is putting your whole grinder into the freezer for about 15 to 20 minutes.
As the kief and resin are almost exclusively fat matter, this will make the kief clogged to the grid or surface of the grinder screen get hard by the cold. You will have your grinder screen way cleaner than before. However, depending on how clogged your grinder is, this method's efficiency may vary.
So, if your grinder screen was really really dirty, you may still have some kief stuck to your grinder screen surface.
But don't worry, if you're trying to get your grinder screen to factory cleanliness, the next method will be perfect for you. For this method, you will need to get some rubbing alcohol.
The rest is actually very easy. After leaving your grinder soaking in rubbing alcohol overnight, all the trichomes that are clogged to the screen should lose off a bit. Want to impress your friends and be the envy of all those around you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, the answer is simple: learn how to use a grinder. In this article, the experts at Honest Marijuana show you how to use a grinder and tell you everything you need to know about this helpful tool.
The original ganja gurus from way-back-when came up with some pretty interesting cannabis slang. Some of that jargon is not very self-explanatory like sploof and chronic. So what exactly is a grinder? Just kidding! Two-piece, single chamber grinders are made up of a small bowl about the size and shape of a hockey puck maybe a little bit smaller. This kind of grinder is called a two-piece because it also has a lid. Get it? Picture a two-piece grinder with the lid and the bowl.
Now add another piece underneath. First comes the lid. It may have teeth or pegs to help with the grinding. Next comes the grinding chamber. It may have teeth or pegs as well. When your weed is chopped small enough in the grinding chamber, it will fall through the holes into the collection chamber.
You can then unscrew this bottom chamber and collect the pot for use. In a four-piece, three-chamber grinder, the collection chamber has a small mesh screen instead of a solid bottom. Underneath the collection chamber is the final piece of the puzzle: the kief chamber.
As you grind, the larger but still ground-up pieces of marijuana fall into the collection chamber. As you continue to grind and agitate the whole thing, tiny, pollen-like material falls through the screen into the bottom chamber. Building on our little marijuana math problem, here are the components of the four-piece grinder:. Grinders are great as ganja goes.
There are too many advantages to be ignored. Here are just a few of the benefits of using a grinder. Kief is the term cannaseurs use to refer to the terpenes and cannabinoids that separate from the trichomes during the grinding process.
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