When I mean clean, is that it becomes brand new from inside and out. (Personaly i had one for 3,5 years and never ever cleaned it :S).
So I have a new one for 6 months now and I don't know how to really maintean it? Any tips? Thanks!
When was the last time you cleaned your grinder (if ever) ?
StonedGrinder? I hardly know her.
Micheal, get back to work!
Kurtis?
I hook the fucker to the end of my bong and smoke it clean.
Seriously though, did you ever "smoke resin" back in the day? I assume people still do. We'd scrape all the tar from the inside of our stainless pipes (glass wasn't real common when I was a teen) and vaporize it on a clean screen and inhale the toxins. Worked though. We'd sometimes get the 4 of us high 2 or 3 nights just by scraping things or picking at stems. I'm so happy this shit is legal these days.
I remember doing nasty resin hits when I ran out of weed. Ick.
Wait, what? Like you take your grinder and burn all the shit with, I guess, a torch and inhale the fume through the pipe of the bong?
Am I too stone to understand? XD
More like taking the black shit that builds up in your downstem and smoking it.
haha, oh yea. Saving the end of joints (we called em roaches in Weymouth MA) and rolling joints of roach weed. Scraping bowls for the resin and collecting it till you had what looked like a hunk of hash. Now I toss roaches and don't save resin.....my lungs are rejoicing lol
I'm probably on Zombies tomorrow. Depending how much dust the grinder gives up. The bong has long since been retired as my lungs can no longer handle it after 25yrs of smoking. I'm hoping we here in (unnnamed country) won't have to wait too much longer for legality.
God I bought a banger just so I can rip dabs for the first time with my bong resin 😂
That sounds absolutely horrible. How many hours do you cough after that?
about 8,760 hours (1 year). That was when I couldn't possibly buy any actual dabs 😂 I still use the same banger to this day.. u can tell we put a number on the poor fuckin thing 😂
I have mine for 2.5 years. I had never cleaned it. It was getting hard to close. I did not know how to clean it so I took the keef out and put it in the dishwasher. It came out spotless. The paint on the outside wore off. I did this yesterday.
for future reference, use acetone (pure, with no bitterex) or isopropyl alcohol (aka rubbing alcohol), put each section in the same dish, shake and scrape off any bud that's welded itself to the grinder, take the parts out and let it evaporate in a well ventilated space, leave for an extra 24hrs and then scrape up all the grinder goodies using a razor or knife. then using a cotton bud or q-tip put a drop of olive or vegetable oil around the rim, put the top on and spin it a little to work it in, wipe off any excess oil with a paper towel and you've got a freshly cleaned grinder that'll be smooth as butter.
I do the same thing u do just except the olive oil!!! u are a fuckin genius for that
thanks man, I just thought if machines are metal and need lubrication, then my grinder must need some to unstick it and it worked
I love this walkthrough but how can I live without my grinder for 24hrs bro?! Haha
I always pre-grind enough to last me in-between, problem solved :)
Wow thank you for all the details! I'll do that when it starts getting dirty and clogged :)
I never dawned on me that we should clean it. 😳
I clean it once a year for Passover
I clean it every time after using it. I use a toothbrush to get all the stuff out that sticks to the teeth. it bothers me if it‘s messy haha.
and when I run out, I take it apart and smoke the pollen and whatever got stuck in between the metal and the screen. unfortunately weed is illegal in my country.
My grinder is corroded with hash and resin. My kief chamber is empty bc the screen is no longer a screen. I've been meaning to get some everclear, use it to ungunk my grinder, then harvest the infused everclear and put it in a little bottle in a sunny window to decarb and make a tincture of sorts. Who knows if I'll ever do it
The last time I had to use it.
I don't smoke flower anymore since I am still with my folks.
I know people who cook their grinders in milk. I never personally did that though.
I don't think this would work because the stuff in the grinder is still like fresh weed. It needs to be decarbed in some way to activate it. Stem milk works because it's resin. I don't think boiling it activates it, but I could be wrong. I'm super high right now.
I just looked it up and the Fat in the Milk reacts with the cannabionids and binds them to it. You can do this with your weed without decarbing it.
https://www.zamnesia.com/blog-how-to-make-cannabis-milk-n264
works with almond milk too.
Nice! Thanks for looking that up!
Funny I just cleaned it after a year or two. It was sticking, now it doesn’t.
Brilliant cut never needed to 😊
never have clean it with cleaning products BUT in 2022 (got it in 2017) i was high as fuck and started to scrap the walls of the grinder part and also clear up the screen (used an old insurance card and a pin) and so much weed came out and i smoked it and had a great high.
Me, a female who has never been on the gay hookup app by a similar name, reading this: You mean like remove people you matched with ?
Those apps also need clean up, I guess!
If only we could just delete all the creeps from hookup app (some profiles make me really scared sometimes for the safety of the person who are going to have a match with this weirdo... If they even have a match one day xD )
I had to clean it last night cause my cat spilled a bunch of seltzer in it 🥴
I've had mine for 3/4 years and haven't done a deep clean in around a year, I probably clean the rim every 6 months or so to keep things smooth.
I clean it every couple months when it gets cranky
Idk but I boiled it in milk 👌
Weekly with isopropyl alcohol. Today's weed is some sticky stuff.
Make yourself a brew with it, you can thank me later. Soak your grinder in boiling water, pop in a tea bag and make it up to how you like it. I clean mine like this once every few months.
Wouldn't that make it even more sticky ? (Because the resin will melt and go everywhere on the grinder, no?)
Just use the boiling water, if you add the tea bag and sugar whilst the grinder is in it goes sticky. Otherwise it's cool. Is it plastic or metal?
Metal so I think it would be ok
Had mine first grinder I bought when I was 18 until earlier this year. I had cleaned it a few times over the last 15 years but eventually cleaning didn’t really help and I could no longer get a new screen for it so I bought a new one for 20$ and it’s even better than my last one. For that cheap I’ll run it for a few years and snag a new one
Either boil it or soak in iso and salt and clean with a brush. If it’s just the screen that’s caked throw a nickel in there and shake the shit out of it
Never cleaned mine. Usually I'm pretty good about not overusing it.
So my husband runs ours through the dishwasher every 6 months or so. He mostly does it because the resin off of the organic material will get in the grooves and be hard to twist or even get it off. It comes out pretty good and easier than handwashing.
right before my old one broke. like the night before type beat. and cleaned my new one as soon as I got it. U reminded me that I should indeed clean it soon. oh, and I just unscrew the whole grinder and leave it sitting in a bowl of 99% alcohol for the night.
I clean it all the time, last time was 3 days ago
only if it gunks up and doesn’t turn as well.
My Santa Cruz Shredder just chugs along. I thought I'd treat her to a thorough iso soak and scrub down. A week later she was back to her old crusty ways. I think dirty is her preferred state.
I'd clean mine every few months or so, but I got tired of digging all of the kief out so I didn't lose it. Now I just scrape it every so often. If it gets gummy, that's when I give it an alcohol bath with a toothbrush.
I never did. I just bought a new one when it stopped working properly... like an idiot!
Cleaned my first grinder last week, because I couldn't find a good one, though... oh boy did I waste grinders in my life. Cuts like new. I thought the blades simply wore off after half a year or so, but they just get sticky.
Put it into the freezer for an hour, that hardens the sticky stuff (which is also the good stuff) and then brush it thoroughly. Collect the remaining dust, it's magic. After the brushing, I put it into the dishwasher, dry, and now it's good as new.
My friend gave me a grinder he said didn’t work 7 years ago. It still works, has outlasted all other grinders and I haven’t cleaned it once.
several months ago..
I usually would clean mine when the little metal filter for the keef would get clogged. I went ham though I would take a pick and scrap all the caked on stuff in the top tier all the way down to the bottom and from the screen and the fine shit I had a fine stainless wire brush I used to get the rest of the shit out.
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