Will this work for things like flaxseed?
1797247
I emailed a company rep and he said he used it to grind bird seed so he thinks it'll work, just set it to a very fine grind.
1797248
I've never used it for anything but coffee beans but I imagine you could grind flax seed on a finer setting.
1797249
I tried grinding chia seed. It didn't do well. On a fine setting, the seed didn't go through, and stayed in the grinding burr. Any other settings, and the seed would fall through. I tried grinding the seed on several different settings, with no luck. I think it's too oily for this grinder. Chia is a lot smaller than flax, but they both have a lot of oil.
1797250
Flax grinds well with a blade type grinder. A burr grinder is not really designed to grind oil seeds like flax.
1051593
I don't see why it wouldn't! It grinds seeds and stems ,it can grind flax seeds.
1011509
Yes, it is an excellent flax seed grinder! That's all I do with my grinder.
1470581
I (grind) 2 T. of whole flax seed and put it in my oatmeal every morning. I've read that using freshly ground flax seed is better for you.
602615
It does a good job on everything I've tried, but I haven't tried flaxseeds. It grinds fine as dust or coarse for pepper.Small and doesn't take a big space for storage. Sorry about not having your answer.
413512
I haven't tried. I am not sure but it might be worth a try. Many people use a coffee grinder for flaxseed (keep an extra for this unless you REALLY like coffee.)
1490501
I can't answer this question, because flax seed oil is the only one I've used. Sorry.
1153084
I have no direct knowledge about whether it will grind flax seeds or not... I only use it to chop veg and it does a wonderful job. But, that being said, I have never tried to pulverize any veg items and am assuming that pulverizing is what you may be looking for. If I had some, I would try for you - but I don't! Update: just ground some of my daughter's croutons (on high, PUREE) and it did pretty well... more or less a coarse grind. So, if you are looking to accomplish that plus chop some veg, it's a dandy little device.
1305833
I don't know about the chick peas, but the almond and flaxseed I'm sure have too much oil for the grain mill to work properly.I use flaxseed in my wheat bread as the oil and I grind that with a flat blade coffee grinder.
2056187
I don't think this will work for chia or flax seeds. I think they would be too small. I Probably would not put anything smaller than a popcorn kernel.
24510
My first instinct is to say "no" due to the amount of oil content in flax seeds. After reviewing the manual I discovered that it wasn't listed on the "okay" items to grind but it wasn't located on the "non-okay" items to grind either. The manual does, however, state that the oil content should not exceed 15%. If you have anything listing how much oil content is in the flax seed, I would base it off from that suggestion.
734651
Yes, it works great for that. In fact, that is the reason I bought it. I cannot find it in my local stores including Whole Foods.
2008940
sorry about not getting back to you sooner. I was going to use this on a cutting board. I still haven't done yet. I'll have to look on the label to see if it has linseed. did you try googleing it?
1294566
Yes, this is ground flaxseed. Too many products make claims about fiber from flaxseed, but unless the seed is ground, it provides little benefit, unless you chew each and every flaxseed. Buy with confidence.
2000425
It does a reasonable job of grinding flax seed; however, if you want more than a very small amount you will be twisting it for a long time. It takes a lot of work to produce more than a small amount of ground seed.
218730
I use ground flax seed, but I also use blueberries and strawberries and those seeds aren't broken down but they're very small. You might want to grind them in a coffee grinder or something, then add.
916135
Yes we grind flax seed and chia in it for our smoothies. The little metal cup is easy to clean so you can grind coffee one day and flax the next and not get any flavor cross over.