1795results about "Coffee mills" patented technology

The utility model discloses a coffee machine grinding fine adjusting structure which comprises a grinding cylinder and a grinding assembly located in a grinding cavity of the grinding cylinder, the grinding assembly comprises a movable grinding wheel, a static grinding wheel and a transmission shaft, the transmission shaft is arranged in a base in the center of the grinding cavity, and the input end of the transmission shaft is connected with a driving device of a coffee machine. The movable grinding wheel is arranged at the output end of the transmission shaft, a transmission plate is arranged at the bottom of the movable grinding wheel, a pin column inserted into a pin hole in the bottom surface of the movable grinding wheel is arranged on the inner surface of the transmission plate, the transmission shaft is driven by the driving device to drive the transmission plate to enable the movable grinding wheel to rotate relative to the static grinding wheel, and grinding of coffee powder is achieved. The thread assembly is arranged on the shaft head of the output end of the transmission shaft where the movable grinding wheel is installed, the axial position of the movable grinding wheel on the transmission shaft can be changed by adjusting the thread assembly, bidirectional adjustment of the movable grinding wheel and the static grinding wheel is achieved, the adjusting range of a gap is enlarged, fine adjustment can be completed under the requirement for large thickness, and the grinding wheel can be adjusted conveniently. And the grinding effect and the use experience are improved.

Various illustrative systems, devices, and methods for espresso machines are provided. In general, an espresso machine is configured to brew and dispense espresso. In an exemplary implementation, the espresso machine includes a grinder configured to grind coffee beans. The grinder is configured to be adjustable to allow for adjustment of coffee bean grind size, which may help that ensure that a particular beverage brewed and dispensed by the espresso machine is prepared using an optimal grind size. The espresso machine is configured to prevent jamming of the grinder automatically in response to grind size adjustment.

The utility model discloses an outer adjusting ring structure of a bean grinding device of a coffee machine, which comprises a grinding cylinder and a grinding component, the grinding component is positioned in a grinding cavity of the grinding cylinder and comprises a movable grinding wheel and a static grinding wheel, the movable grinding wheel is arranged on a transmission shaft, the transmission shaft is connected with a driving device of the coffee machine, and the static grinding wheel is arranged on a static grinding wheel seat. The static grinding wheel is sleeved with an adjusting ring in a threaded mode, the static grinding wheel base is arranged at the bottom of the grinding cavity, an outer adjusting ring is arranged at an opening in the bottom of the grinding cavity, a linkage assembly is arranged between the outer adjusting ring and the adjusting ring, the outer adjusting ring is rotated to drive the adjusting ring to rotate to promote the static grinding wheel to move in the axial direction, and the gap between the movable grinding wheel and the static grinding wheel is changed. The outer adjusting ring is arranged at the bottom opening of the grinding cavity, the linkage assembly is further arranged between the outer adjusting ring and the adjusting ring, the outer adjusting ring is rotated to stably drive the adjusting ring to change the gap between the movable grinding wheel and the static grinding wheel, and after the sealing plate at the bottom opening of the grinding cavity is detached, the outer adjusting ring can be conveniently detached to be cleaned and maintained.

A gravity-type double-ended pepper grinder includes a housing and a material storage cup. The material storage cup is partitioned into two material chambers. The housing is correspondingly provided with two independent material channels butted with the two material chambers respectively. Discharge ends of the material channels are provided with a grinding assembly separately. A control module and a power module for supplying power to the control module and the grinding assembly are mounted in the housing. The control module is electrically connected to the grinding assembly. A first ball switch for controlling the on-off of the power module and a second ball switch for controlling an operating state of the grinding assembly are arranged on the control module. The first ball switch and the second ball switch extend out of the surface of the housing.

The present invention relates to a drip coffee machine. The drip coffee machine according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a case; a hopper for accommodating coffee beans; and a grinder for receiving and grinding the coffee beans, wherein the grinder is coupled to the case in a detachable manner, and the grinder includes: a grinder body including a rotating burr; and a grinder driving part, which is connected to the grinder body and provides rotating force to the burr.

Various illustrative systems, devices, and methods for beverage machines (e.g., drip coffee machines, espresso machines, etc.) are provided. In an exemplary implementation, an espresso machine is configured to brew and dispense espresso. In an exemplary implementation, the espresso machine is configured to determine a recommended coffee bean grind size for a beverage, e.g., an espresso or a sprover-style drink, selected by a user and to provide the recommended coffee bean grind size to the user.

The utility model relates to a coffee machine grinder capable of uniformly distributing powder, which aims at solving the technical problems that a powder feeding channel of the existing like product is easy to block, the powder distribution effect is poor, nonuniformity and residues are generated, and a bean box is placed in place, and a detection trigger structure is complex in design. The coffee machine grinder is characterized in that powder distribution fan blades are arranged in a powder outlet channel at a grinding knife assembly of the coffee machine grinder, a powder screening net is arranged at a bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel, the powder screening net is fixed to the bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel through a powder outlet cover in an internal and external thread mode, and a motor shaft of a powder distribution motor extends into the powder outlet channel to be connected with the powder distribution fan blades. A notch is formed in one side of the spiral blade of the powder distribution fan blade, and a top channel opening of the powder outlet channel on one side of the sharpening assembly is exposed out of the machine body; self-locking protruding tongue assemblies are symmetrically arranged on the inner walls of the two sides of the inner bottom of the bean box tray, switch ejector rod assemblies are symmetrically arranged on at least one side of the outer diameter of the bean box tray, and the other switch ejector rod assembly is arranged on one side of the sleeving position of a bean feeding opening of the bean box tray and a knife edge of the knife sharpening assembly.

Disclosed in the present invention is a high-precision externally-adjustable coffee grinder, including a main housing, a lifting rod, a grinding assembly and a coarseness adjusting structure, where the coarseness adjusting structure includes an external adjusting ring, an internal driving ring, a transmission gear; the external adjusting ring is sleeved and rotates relative to the main housing; the external adjusting ring is engaged with the internal driving ring through the transmission gear; and the external adjusting ring drives the internal driving ring to rotate to drive the lifting rod to adjust a grinding disc gap. The adjusting precision of the adjusting structure is greatly improved, the advantages of convenient adjustment of the externally-adjustable coffee grinder and clear scale indication of a one-turn coffee grinder are retained, and the problem of low precision of the one-turn adjusting coffee grinder in the prior art is solved.

An apparatus for roasting coffee beans includes: a vessel to contain coffee beans, a heating device to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel, and a control system operable to control the heating device and configured to apply a roasting recipe. For a customised quantity m of coffee beans of type Ny introduced inside the vessel, the control system is configured to obtain at least the quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel and the type Ny of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, and based on the obtained type Ny, the control system is configured to get access at least to a roasting recipe Ry. The recipe is adapted to the roasting of one pre-determined quantity M of beans of type Ni, and to the pre-determined quantity M, and based on the accessible roasting recipe Ry and on the obtained quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, the control system is configured to determine the roasting recipe to be applied to the quantity m of coffee beans of type Ny introduced inside the vessel.

The invention relates to a tool setting device for a bean grinder and the bean grinder, and belongs to the technical field of bean processing.The tool setting device comprises a bean grinding support, a lower cutter head assembly and an upper cutter head assembly matched with the lower cutter head assembly are installed in the bean grinding support, the tool setting device further comprises an adjusting part, and the adjusting part is in threaded connection fit with the upper cutter head assembly; the adjusting part can be rotated to drive the upper cutter head assembly to move axially so as to adjust the distance between the upper cutter head and the lower cutter head, a plurality of breaking areas are arranged on the adjusting part and / or the threaded structure on one side of the upper cutter head assembly in the threaded connection matching position, and the breaking areas and the upper side and the lower side of the threaded structure communicate with the outside to form a cleaning channel. Along with relative rotation of the inner thread and the outer thread, the threads drive powder and impurities to be scraped off and fall out of the thread structure. According to the tool setting device for the bean grinder and the bean grinder thereof, the use problems that rotation adjustment is difficult and threads are prone to being stuck in an existing bean grinder can be solved.

The invention discloses beverage processing equipment and a debugging method thereof, the beverage processing equipment comprises a grinding module, a brewing module, a bean bin and input equipment, the grinding module comprises a cutter head capable of adjusting a grinding gap; the debugging method of the beverage processing equipment comprises the steps that any beverage is selected, information of a bean bin bound with the beverage is obtained, or only the bean bin or only a grinding module is selected, and pressed powder parameters of the beverage are obtained; obtaining extraction parameters of the beverage; the method comprises the following steps: setting a preset extraction time length, starting a debugging method to operate, firstly preparing a cup of beverage to obtain an actual extraction time length in a current grinding gap state, comparing the actual extraction time length with the preset extraction time length, adjusting a cutter grinding gap of a grinding module according to a difference value between the actual extraction time length and the preset extraction time length, and continuously preparing the beverage; and the debugging is completed and confirmed until the actual extraction duration of the current time is consistent with the preset extraction duration, so that the whole debugging process is relatively simpler and more reliable.

A force sensor has a sensing system including a target piece and a sensing element, configured to provide changes of a magnetic field, being generated by motion of the target piece. The sensing element senses these changes and provides a signal representative of the position of the target piece. An integrated circuit with processing means can process signals from the sensing element. A semiconductor package includes at least the integrated circuit. A flexible piece includes the target, and it is attached to the semiconductor package. The attachment area between the flexible piece and the semiconductor package does not extend beyond the top projection, or outline, of the semiconductor package. The flexible piece receives a force stimulus, so that upon exerting a force on the flexible piece, the displacement of the target piece with respect to the surface of the semiconductor package can be sensed by the sensing element.

The utility model relates to a coarse and fine grinding device of a full-automatic coffee machine, and aims to solve the technical problems that a coarse and fine adjusting mechanism is difficult to automatically return to zero and realize detection after grinding and before restarting of the conventional similar product, and the coarse and fine adjusting mechanism is difficult to automatically adjust gear selection through a key. The grinding device is characterized in that the outer diameter of an upper conical cutter assembly of the grinding device is provided with three columnar protruding points arranged at equal intervals, one side of the outer diameter of the bottom of a conical cutter adjusting disc is provided with an arc-shaped protruding point, a grinder body assembly corresponding to the arc-shaped protruding point is provided with a microswitch, and the conical cutter adjusting disc is driven by a stepping motor to rotate; the range of the adjusting angle between outer diameter tooth openings at the conical cutter adjusting disc is 85 degrees, the gear change of rotating the conical cutter adjusting disc every time is 3.4 degrees, and the total number of the gears is 25; therefore, the thickness degree is set through a thickness adjusting gear key of the control panel, a cone cutter adjusting disc of the bean grinding assembly automatically monitors and searches a zero position through a stepping motor during starting, and an arc-shaped protruding point of the cone cutter adjusting disc triggers a microswitch.

The utility model discloses a bean grinder which comprises a grinding mechanism and a driving mechanism, the grinding mechanism comprises a grinding seat, a grinding cutter set and a powder storage bin, the grinding cutter set comprises a fixed grinding cutter and a movable grinding cutter, the fixed grinding cutter is arranged in the grinding seat, the grinding seat is connected with a movable cutter positioning seat, the movable grinding cutter is rotationally connected to the movable cutter positioning seat, and the movable cutter positioning seat is connected with the driving mechanism. A bean grinding cavity used for containing beans to be ground is formed in the position, located above the powder grinding cutter set, of the powder grinding base, the powder storage bin is connected to the lower end of the powder grinding base and used for bearing powder ground by the powder grinding cutter set, the powder grinding base is further connected with a connecting shaft driving the movable powder grinding cutter to rotate, and the driving mechanism is connected with the connecting shaft to drive the movable powder grinding cutter to rotate. And the movable cutter positioning seat is provided with a wear-resistant sheet which is in frictional contact with the movable grinding cutter. According to the bean grinder disclosed by the utility model, the wear-resistant sheet which is in frictional contact with the movable grinding cutter is arranged on the movable cutter positioning seat, and the wear-resistant sheet can be made of a stainless steel material, so that the wear of the movable cutter positioning seat can be reduced, the service life of the grinding mechanism is prolonged, and the bean grinder is simple in structure and low in cost.

The invention relates to a detachable straight-through type coffee machine bean grinding device, and aims to solve the technical problems that a grinding assembly of an existing similar product lacks a straight leakage channel design, accumulation and blockage of coffee powder are easily caused, and the interior of the straight leakage channel is inconvenient to clean. A direct leakage channel is arranged in a bean grinding assembly of the bean grinding device of the coffee machine, and a hollow hole is formed in a center hole in a bean grinding conical cutter adjusting disc of a lower cutter grinding assembly; when the bean grinding assembly is arranged at a powder outlet of the coffee machine, a channel opening in one end of a direct leakage channel at the bottom of the bean grinding assembly and the end face of the bottom of the bean grinding assembly extend out of an orifice at the powder outlet of the coffee machine. An assembling key on one side of a gear adjusting disc extending out of the gear adjusting disc assembly is aligned with an indication mark on the outer diameter of a powder outlet of the coffee machine, and the bottom of the bean grinding assembly extending out of a hole opening of the powder outlet of the coffee machine is pressed down. And a mounting convex buckle on the outer side end face of a direct leakage channel at the bottom of the bean grinding assembly is buckled into a gap between inner rings of buckles in the gear adjusting disc and is rotationally buckled.

The utility model discloses a bean bin fixing structure for a grinding coffee machine, and relates to the technical field of bean grinders, the bean bin fixing structure comprises a bean bin assembly and a top cover assembly; wherein the bean bin assembly comprises a bean bin, a powder blocking cover, a blocking cover, a fixed knob cover and a bean bin cover; the top cover assembly comprises a coffee machine top cover, a left push rod, a left elastic component, a right push rod, a right elastic component, a microswitch fixing component, a microswitch, an adjusting ring connecting frame and a thickness adjusting ring. According to the bean bin fixing structure for the grinding coffee machine, the bean bin fixing mode is convenient to operate, disassembly is convenient, and coffee powder residues in the cutter assembly can be conveniently cleaned.

The invention relates to a coffee machine grinder capable of uniformly distributing powder, and aims to solve the technical problems that a powder feeding channel of an existing similar product is easy to block, the powder distribution effect is poor, nonuniformity and residues are generated, and a bean box is placed in place, and a detection trigger structure is complex in design. The coffee machine grinder is characterized in that powder distribution fan blades are arranged in a powder outlet channel at a grinding knife assembly of the coffee machine grinder, a powder screening net is arranged at a bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel, the powder screening net is fixed to the bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel through a powder outlet cover in an internal and external thread mode, and a motor shaft of a powder distribution motor extends into the powder outlet channel to be connected with the powder distribution fan blades. A notch is formed in one side of the spiral blade of the powder distribution fan blade, and a top channel opening of the powder outlet channel on one side of the sharpening assembly is exposed out of the machine body; self-locking protruding tongue assemblies are symmetrically arranged on the inner walls of the two sides of the inner bottom of the bean box tray, switch ejector rod assemblies are symmetrically arranged on at least one side of the outer diameter of the bean box tray, and the other switch ejector rod assembly is arranged on one side of the sleeving position of a bean feeding opening of the bean box tray and a knife edge of the knife sharpening assembly.

The utility model discloses a bean grinder, which relates to the technical field of bean grinders and comprises a bean grinder body, an upper connecting cover is arranged at the upper end of the bean grinder body, a bean storage bin is fixedly mounted at the upper end of the upper connecting cover, and a bin cover is inserted into the upper end of the bean storage bin. The lower end of the bean storage bin communicates with a bean grinding bin chamber of the bean grinding machine body through an upper connecting cover, a touch screen is arranged on the front face of the bean grinding machine body, a discharging pipe is arranged on the front face of the bean grinding machine body, and the upper end of the discharging pipe communicates with the bean grinding bin chamber of the bean grinding machine body. By the adoption of the structure, when the collecting disc needs to be cleaned, only the pull rod needs to be pulled through the pull block, the pull rod pulls the movable plate to slide between the first mounting groove and the second mounting groove, the clamping block connected with the movable plate can be separated from the connecting block, and then the collecting disc can be directly pulled out of the lower connecting cover to be used for cleaning.

An electric spice grinder with digital thermometer is an apparatus that dispenses milled spices automatically and includes a digital thermometer that can be used to monitor the temperature of food products. The apparatus includes a grinder housing, a food thermometer, a grinder mechanism, a portable power source, and a controller. The grinder housing corresponds to the main structure that houses the rest of the components in a portable and ergonomic way. The food thermometer can be used to monitor the temperature of the desired food product separate from the grinder housing. The grinder mechanism corresponds to the motorized mechanism that dispenses a desired amount of milled spice at a desired grind level. The portable power source provides the voltage necessary to sustain the operation of the food thermometer, the grinder mechanism, and the controller. The controller enables the operational control of the food thermometer and the grinder mechanism.

A method for calibrating a coffee grinder comprises receiving a plurality of sets of extraction data (20) inputs generated by a coffee preparation machine relating to one or more coffee extraction process parameters, processing the extraction data (20) using a machine learning based artificial intelligence model (30) algorithm, generating an output data set (21), it includes information for calibrating the coffee grinder (18).

The utility model relates to an accurate quantitative grinding mechanism for coffee beans, and aims to solve the technical problems that a weighing module structure of an existing similar product is difficult to be integrally assembled and used with a bean grinding assembly, beans are easy to scatter when a bean box of the bean grinding assembly is taken out, the bean box is difficult to automatically lock when the bean box is taken out, and the beans are easy to block in the bean discharging process. The mechanism is characterized in that a bean discharging gear in a bean discharging assembly main body below a bean box at a bean box assembly of the mechanism is driven by a transmission shaft at a synchronous motor on one side of the outer diameter to rotate to discharge beans, and meanwhile, a bean discharging shifting piece is arranged on one side of the bean discharging gear in the bean discharging assembly main body, and one end of the bean discharging shifting piece abuts against one blade of the bean discharging gear; the other end of the bean feeding shifting piece is hinged and fixed in the bean feeding assembly body to swing, a torsion spring is arranged on the hinged position or a positioning column on one side of the hinged position, the shaft portion of a vertically-arranged bean feeding gear is aligned with a bottom hole opening of an upper bean box, and the bottom hole opening of the upper bean box is rectangular. And a bottom hole of the bean feeding assembly main body below the shaft part at the bean feeding gear is aligned with the bean feeding channel.

The present invention relates to a smoke treatment unit (3) of a system (1) of a roaster (2) and a method for selecting an associated smoke treatment unit when said system is used in a room (10), said method comprising: receiving room data input; receiving roast usage data input to determine an amount of each contaminant produced by the roasting equipment during a period of time; calculating the concentration of each pollutant present in the room during said period for each system of the roaster and one smoke treatment unit; for each system and for each contaminant, comparing the calculated concentration of said contaminant present in the room during the period with the concentration of said contaminant permitted in accordance with local health and safety regulations; selecting a smoke treatment unit for the system from a list of smoke treatment units that provides a calculated concentration for each pollutant that is lower than the certified concentration.

The utility model discloses a bean grinder capable of accurately quantifying coffee powder, which comprises a shell and a powder outlet assembly, and further comprises a quantitative weighing assembly, the quantitative weighing assembly comprises a power panel, a control panel, an AD conversion panel and a weight sensor, and the power panel, the control panel, the AD conversion panel and the weight sensor are all arranged in the shell. The motor, the control board and the AD conversion board are electrically connected with the power panel, the weight sensor is electrically connected with the AD conversion board, an MCU module is integrated on the power panel, a support is arranged on the weight sensor, a detachable powder receiving cup is arranged on the support, and the powder receiving cup is located below the powder outlet assembly. The weight sensor is used for detecting the weight of coffee powder in the powder receiving cup, when the weight reaches a preset value, the motor stops working, the weight of the coffee powder is displayed, when the weight is within an allowable error range, grinding is finished, and therefore the quantitative accuracy of the coffee powder can be improved.

A manual meat grinder is provided. The manual meat grinder includes a bottom cover and an upper cover. The bottom cover includes lower grinding teeth disposed at intervals, and the upper cover includes upper grinding teeth disposed at intervals. The upper cover covers the lower cover and is rotatably connected to the lower cover, so as to grind meat through cooperation of the upper grinding teeth and the lower grinding teeth. At least one of the bottom cover and the upper cover includes blocking components disposed at intervals, and the blocking components are correspondingly disposed at at least one of a periphery of the lower grinding teeth and a periphery of the upper grinding teeth. In this way, meat is prevented from moving toward edges of the manual meat grinder in a meat grinding process, so as to improve a meat grinding effect.

Disclosed in the present invention is a high-precision externally-adjustable coffee grinder, including a main housing, a lifting rod, a grinding assembly and a coarseness adjusting structure, where the coarseness adjusting structure includes an external adjusting ring, an internal driving ring, a transmission gear; the external adjusting ring is sleeved and rotates relative to the main housing; the external adjusting ring includes an internal toothed ring; the internal driving ring includes an external toothed ring; the external adjusting ring is engaged with the internal driving ring through the transmission gear; and the external adjusting ring drives the internal driving ring to rotate to drive the lifting rod to adjust a grinding disc gap. The number of turns of the internal driving toothed ring is increased, so that the adjusting precision of the adjusting structure is greatly improved, the advantages of convenient adjustment of the externally-adjustable coffee grinder and clear scale indication of a one-turn coffee grinder are retained, and the problem of low precision of the one-turn adjusting coffee grinder in the prior art is solved.

The utility model discloses a high-precision external adjustment bean grinder, which comprises a main machine shell, a grinding component and a thickness adjusting structure, the thickness adjusting structure comprises an outer adjusting ring, an inner driving ring, a transmission gear and a linkage component, the outer adjusting ring is sleeved and rotates relative to the main machine shell, the outer adjusting ring comprises an inner gear ring, the inner driving ring comprises an outer gear ring, and the transmission gear is arranged on the outer gear ring. The outer adjusting ring is meshed with the inner driving ring through the transmission gear and drives the inner driving ring to rotate so as to drive the linkage assembly to adjust the grinding disc gap. After the number of rotation turns of the inner driving gear ring is increased, the adjusting precision of the adjusting structure is greatly improved, the advantages that an outer adjusting type bean grinder is convenient to adjust and a one-circle type bean grinder is clear in scale indication are reserved, and meanwhile the problem that in the prior art, a one-circle type adjusting bean grinder is low in precision is solved.

A food dispensing system is provided, wherein the food dispensing hopper includes a gate rotatably mounted adjacent to a bottom opening to selectively open and close the bottom opening. The hopper also includes a coupling device for removably and rotationally coupling the hopper to an apparatus and an interlocking mechanism for interoperating with the gate so that when the coupling device is rotationally coupled to the apparatus, the bottom opening is rotated relative to the gate into an open position, and when the coupling device is reversely rotated to be separated from the apparatus, the bottom opening is rotated relative to the gate into a closed position.

The invention relates to an anti-jamming coffee machine bean box bean feeding mechanism, and aims to solve the technical problems that existing like products are still prone to jamming beans in the bean feeding process, the beans are prone to splashing outwards when entering a grinder, matching between bean feeding assemblies is not good, fixing is not good, and in-place detection is lacked. The mechanism is characterized in that the mechanism comprises a bean box assembly and a bean box base assembly, an arched cavity is formed in one side of an inclined face between a through hole and the inner wall at the position where a bean feeding gear is arranged in a bean box of the bean box assembly, a bean inlet is formed in one side of the arched cavity, and one end of the arched cavity at the bean inlet protrudes and is aligned with a bean feeding opening of a lower cover of the bean box below; a bean blocking prevention gear is arranged in the arch-shaped cavity, one side of a gear piece of the bean blocking prevention gear is aligned with the bean inlet, and meanwhile, the lower portion of the gear piece of the bean blocking prevention gear is aligned with a gap between bean poking pieces on one side of the bean feeding gear in the arch-shaped cavity; an arc-shaped bone position is arranged on one side of a bean inlet in the outer diameter of the arc-shaped cavity of the bean box, and coffee beans on the disc face of the bean feeding gear are guided to enter the bean inlet in the bean box.

The present disclosure surrounds a flat burr grinder with increased ease of maintenance, adjustability, and / or precision as related to the grinding of media such as coffee beans. The apparatus described herein includes a grinding assembly which is optionally configured for disassembly at a location which corresponds to the location of the burrs to allow for easier maintenance and adjustability without affecting the gap between the burrs as last set by the user. An optionally interchangeable pre-breaker auger allows for adjustability of the particulate size of grinding material which is introduced to the burrs for grinding.

Provided are a system and method for a utility container with grinder (“UCWG”). In general, the UCWG includes a housing providing an at least one internal storage area proximate to a first end. A grinder is provided proximate to a second end opposite from the first end, the grinder having a removable grinder cap. An internal separator separates the at least one internal storage area from the grinder. The first end has a lid structured and arranged to temporarily seal the at least one internal storage area, the lid having an external depression structured and arranged to hold a known volume of ground material. The removable grinder cap structured and arranged to be disposed within the housing below the lid. An associated method of use is also provided.