With a wide variety of spice grinders available, finding the right size for your spice blends has never been easier. Whether you are expanding your range to offer consumers smaller-sized bottles, planning a promotion that requires mini bottles or in the catering industry that needs larger bottles, choosing the right grinder size is key. As a spice producer, offering your customers more ways to ensure your blends allows you to expand your offering, reaching new customers and building brand loyalty.
However, choosing the right sizes can involve numerous factors. Each grinder size has its own benefits and purpose. Standard sizes are best suited to retailers who sell products in retail environments, as they fit onto shelves. Smaller sizes can be used in retail environments as well as corporate gifting, informal retail environments such as markets or boutiques, promotional products or samples. Larger-sized grinders are used in restaurants, hotels, guest houses, catering kitchens or retail environments for consumers wanting bulk seasoning rather than standard sizes. Our guide to spice grinder shapes and sizes will give you a better understanding of how to choose the right size for your needs.
What to Avoid When Choosing Spice Grinder Sizes
There are a few mistakes that spice producers make when choosing the right size spice grinder. Here are some of the most commonly made mistakes.
Not considering your product type
The type of seasoning you produce will have a direct effect on the size of the grinder you choose. Seasoning such as salt, pepper and finer spices can be easily filled into small grinders that have grinder mechanisms. Larger particles such as herb blends may be better suited to standard or larger grinders as these are easier to disperse using flip-top sprinklers. If seasoning has a risk of not grinding or dispersing easily, it influences the overall user experience.
Overlooking grinder mechanism
When it comes to the grinder mechanism, this should always be a factor, whatever sized grinder you have chosen. Mini and small grinders work best with adjustable push-pull motion grinders, as these allow quick grinding. Snap-on twist motion grinders also work well with mini grinders. Standard sizes have many mechanisms to choose from, whether it’s adjustable push-pull and dial, twist to close or open or classic. For large bottles, traditional grind mechanisms are ideal as these quickly grind consistent particles for high-volume grinding.
Ordering too many (or too few)
If you produce a selection of spices and require more than one spice grinder size, be mindful of the order volume. If your main product is sold in standard sizes, that will always be your biggest volume. If you are planning promotions or expanding your line to include a boutique range, new range or limited edition range, it is better to under-order. This ensures that you can test the market without ending up with unused grinders. For catering companies, factors such as spice consumption, restaurant and hotel guest numbers and demand during peak seasons.
Focusing on quantity vs quality
Finally, the most important thing of all whether choosing grinders of any size, always focus on quality. Ordering large volumes of mini grinders for product launches or promotions can backfire hugely if the quality is poor. End-users may find that grinders do not work properly, break easily, fail to release spices evening or worse. This can damage reputation significantly. Likewise, if large grinders are used in busy restaurant kitchens, malfunctions can result in ruined food, wasted time and other issues that can cause customer complaints, bad reviews and worse. Choosing a partner that not only offers a large selection of grinders and bottles but also value-added services is essential. A partner will work with you to find the best products to suit your needs. To find out more about choosing the best spice grinders, contact the Global Grinders team.
