The enema of the people.
Not so much about cooking….
I’m new into smoothies - fruit & nuts. I have a Ninja 500ml blender but need a nut grinder. A coffee grinder doesn’t work well because nuts have oil which sticks and is difficult to clean.
I’ve got my eye on a Cuisinart spice/nut/coffee grinder. It has a stainless steel bowl + blade which can be removed for safe washing/rinsing under a hot tap.
Anyone had experience of one of these – it is rated fairly well.
I’ll be interested to see what you think if you do go for it. I have transferred 2 in Amazon Fr to my basket to study later, but am interested to know why 2 seemingly identical machines are 20 euros apart in price. 
I noticed the price differences too, but haven’t found out why yet. I shall send a query to Amazon.
Have sent email to Amazon FR asking why, and am supposed to get an answer in 6 hours.
I am wondering what you are wishing to achieve? After cancer, my wife saw the nutribullet so that was Christmas present sorted. We experimented and although after cancer chemo etc I only had about 50% of the energy level that I had before the cancer. The mix of veg, nuts and fruit gave me back the energy and after 4-5 days I felt I could run a marathon. Kept up this routine every day for just over 2 years. Waist measurement had also increased, this is when I changed to low carb ketogenic to loose the waist. That was very successful. I feel but don’t know that the fibre etc from the smoothies rebuilt the gut microbiome.
Now it seems there is the suggestion that rapidly bombarding your body rather than chewing the whole foods is slightly counter productive.
I use this coffee grinder that I bought in a Cash Converters type of shop for a few euros many years ago. It grinds the spices rather than smashing them to bits. I can’t put my finger on exactly why this method is better but can tell the difference
They are available on Amazon
Burr grinder rather than blades?
Nothing to do with health. My teeth are 84 years old and the enamel is exceedingly thin and can easily chip, and biting into crunchy stuff, like nuts or hard stuff, like apple peel, is becoming uncomfortable. One smoothie a day is all I’m going for.
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I added both devices to the Amazon FR basket and I see a difference. The more expensive one says ‘Dispatched from and sold by Amazon UK’, the other cheaper one doesn’t. Why, and why UK?
1,000 + of the expensive one have been sold, whereas 4,000 + of the cheaper one has been sold.
And if you go to the Cuisinart store there is only 1 model, the cheaper one.
Confusing.
Understood, I was just interested. Yesterday I had three molar teeth roots removed at Kings dental hospital, feels like I have been kicked by a horse this morning. I am sure you’ll feel the benefit as I did, gave me back my energy levels, be interesting to hear if you get a similar results.
Had an email answer. I shall go ahead and order the cheaper one next week sometime. Once the item is in the basket the price remains, without some nosey algorithm raising it. I think…
I think Amazon sometimes shows products sold by their other country websites, either to give you some choice or in case a local one is out of stock.
I sometimes get shown (and have bought) stuff supplied by “Amazon EU SARL”, or even from the US site.
I would imagine the higher price represents shipping and maybe import duty/processing? Or else they just reckon the UK market can tolerate a higher price?
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I would, and maybe will, go for the Fr one rather than the UK one, whatever the price and as long as it comes from Amazon. I refuse these days anything coming from a 3rd party whether sold by them or not. Fingers burned, lesson learned. 
Just read all the reports on it. Only 2 bad ones. The first said the plastic mechanism failed before long and the 2nd said:
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2024
It overheats within seconds and then shuts off
[Report](https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/hz/reviews-render/report-review/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_report?
Do you think he got one with an American plug?
And I didn’t see anyone mentioning nuts, which is possibly the only thing I would use it for.
…and probably 110V by the sound of it!!
I’ve just ordered the FR 39.99 euro version, and you’ll see that it’s sold by Amazon fr, and ships from Amazon EU sarl.
Waiting with bated breath for the first reports, if impatience doesn’t overcome me.
It’s due next Monday. I’m as eager as you to see if it grinds nuts, for adding to salads or smoothies. Will report back.
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This is happening to a lot of products sold from the UK on Amazon sites (not UK)especially recently.
The seller is adding customs charges plus possibly some sort of handling charge and possibly some of the shipping costs into the sales price of the item.
If it’s only available from the UK and if someone wants that particular product it might work but otherwise not. I always check amazon.de as well as amazon.fr, at a minimum, because more often than you would think shipping charges within the EU are far, far less than the amount a UK seller will cost you. Sweden is also worth checking for some things.
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