So, mortar and coffee mill

[Make Byzantine Great Again]

Besides capacity and working speed, what differences between this two? Precision matters?

[Sir Kepi]

Mortar and pestle is lossless, coffee mill is not. What this means is that with the coffee mill you'll always lose a tiny bit of whatever you're grinding, something like 0.05% or so. Not a big deal considering we're talking about what, maybe 0.05 grams that you lose? This does mean however that you'll end up with something like 0.95 grams that you can't bag up, so in the end you lose a total of 1g. Still not a huge loss even with expensive drugs. It does mean however that if you put 100g into the coffee mill you'll end up having to bag up a 50g, 2x 20g and some smaller ones. Bit of a pain I suppose, but I don't really mind it personally.

[wilabidd]

hi there, as i see it... if your milling one product only lets say sugar the motar as a loss of 0% yet the coffee mill has a loss of 0 to .03%(pretty sure cant remember) so if you mill 2 products lets say sugar and ibuprofen the mortar will mix with 0% loss yet it wont mix perfect, as were the coffee mill will lose 0 to .03% but mix perfect. plus if you use the mortar to mix 2 product, again lets say sugar and ibuprofen and you add it to your mixer it will be good not perfect precision, so when you make another batch of sugar and ibuprofen and add it to you mixer it wont allow you combine as the precision isnt the same as the first batch, yet the coffee mill will mill a perfect precision allowing to combine 2 separate batches... i pretty sure thats right, havent used a mortar is ages, if it not im sure someone will correct me