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Default Herb Grinder?

On 9/17/2011 4:36 PM, James Silverton wrote:
> On 9/17/2011 4:17 PM, Chemo the Clown wrote:
>> On Sep 17, 1:13 pm, Jerry > wrote:
>>> On Sep 17, 3:58 pm, Helpful > wrote:
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>>> ...
>>>
>>>> For the really hard stuff you can always put them in a plastic bag and
>>>> hit them with the bottom of a small saucepan.
>>>
>>> Put some poppy seeds on an oak board and hit them with a hammer.
>>> Mostly, you will end up with whole seeds embedded in the wood. They
>>> will perforate a plastic bag.
>>>
>>> Jerry
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>>> get.

>>
>> Put them on an anvil.

>
> I wonder why you would grind poppy seeds? They seem small enough to me.
>


Answering my own question :-) I have made Indian foods with white poppy
seeds (Good too!) but I used my spice (coffee) grinder to pulverize them.

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