A weed grinder also know as an herb grinder or pollen sifter is a device that grinds your pot or weed into finer and more uniform bits. This makes your bud burn more evenly therefore maximizing efficiency.
Weed smokes better when it’s broken up. The chemicals are actually along the surface of the plant, so burning all of the surface area is key.
You can do it with your fingers but it leaves your fingers smelling like weed, and the results are very uneven.
A lot of grinders have a “catch chamber” that the ground up weed falls into.
This pokeball and death star grinder has holes and then a screen so as it grinds the fine particles of the weed falls into a chamber.
This Green Goddess grinder is a four piece grinder. The top piece is a magnetic spinning lid with teeth in the top/underside. moving downwards. The second piece forms the main grinding chamber and has teeth extending upwards (so the weed is trapped between the top and bottom teeth). The 3rd piece forms the “catch Chamber” below the grinding chamber and you can actually use your grinder as a storage jar if you want to, and leave the weed in it. This catch chamber has a screen it it that allows kief / pollen to fall down into the 4th piece which forms the pollen chamber and is the bottom of the grinder.
This is the “finished” product, and you can actually use your grinder as a storage jar if you want to, and leave the weed in it.
Cannabis has little crystals call “trichomes” that sit on the plant surface. Those trichomes have all the chemicals – THC, CBD, and the terpenes that give weed its flavor and scent. Those crystals can fall off as you grind, and fall through the screen to the bottom chamber where you can collect the fallen pollen.
After a few grinding sessions you’ll accumulate enough weed pollen sprinkle over your next bowl or joint, or bone, or pipe.
The modern grinder tends to be cut out of aluminum and their footprint is like a diamond shape if you look straight down at it from the top… so as weed comes into contact with the length of the teeth, it’s a sharp point that slides up the weed.
Too many grinders overload their chamber with TOO MANY small teeth, and therefore there’s not as much negative space left for holes — they’re either too small, or there are too few, or (even worse) both!
The problem is that if the holes are too small and there aren’t enough, the ground up herb stays in the chamber and doesn’t “fall away” to the catch chamber below… it just stays in the main chamber, spinning around and around, jamming up… you want the smaller ground up stuff to fall away to the bottom catch chamber and get out of the way so that the teeth can keep working on the larger pieces still left.
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