hand grinding
Crushing without electricity
Hand grinding is the process of grinding something manually rather than with powered machinery.
The term appears in contexts from coffee preparation to metalworking to pharmaceutical compounding.
Hand grinding typically produces less uniform results than machine grinding but offers more control: She prefers hand grinding her spices for better flavor.
The phrase can also refer to manually operating a grinding wheel or mill.
- mortar and pestleManual crushing implements
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- pestleBowl's crushing companion
- millGrain-crushing facility
- stoneSolid earth fragment
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