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A grinder is a crew member on a yacht whose duties include operating manual winches (called "coffee grinders") that raise and trim the sails and move the boom. [1] It is a physically demanding role with a significant impact on a racing yacht's overall performance.
Manual coffee grinders have been largely supplanted by electrically powered ones for speed. Manual grinders are used for convenience and aesthetic reasons and are usually less costly than electric models. An example is the manual Turkish coffee grinder; they are inexpensive and can grind coffee to fine powder for Turkish coffee.
Blade grinders are a 20th-century innovation that followed the adaptation of propellers to small motorboats. [citation needed] Blade grinders exploit a feature of propellers that is undesirable in the propulsion systems of boats and airplanes: the higher the rotation speed, the more energy is spent in shearing and cutting rather than in pushing.
Menzies noticed that they kept encountering the year 1421 and, concluding that it must have been an extraordinary year in world history, decided to write a book about everything that happened in the world in 1421. Menzies spent years working on the book and, by the time it was finished, it was a massive volume spanning 1,500 pages.
A wet grinder consists of granite stones rotating inside a metal drum with the help of an electric motor. Food grains are crushed between stones in the drum. [10] Modern wet grinders may use grinding stones that are circular or conical. Wet grinders have some advantages over electric mixers or blenders. A stone grinder generates less heat than ...
Blade grinder, includes food processors, blenders, electric coffee and spice grinders, etc. Coffee grinder, a machine used for grinding coffee; Herb grinder, a grinder used for herbs including marijuana; Meat grinder, a machine used for grinding food; Wet grinder, a grinder that uses water either to soften the product ground or to keep the ...
Danisco A/S is a Danish bio-based company with activities in food production, enzymes and other bioproducts as well as a wide variety of pharmaceutical grade excipients.It was formed in 1989 from the largest Danish industrial merger ever of the two old C.F. Tietgen companies Danish Sugar (founded 1872), and Dansk Handels- og Industri Company (Danisco A/S).
In 2002, Capresso, Inc. entered into a joint venture to market automatic coffee centers with Jura AG of Switzerland. Jura is a Swiss developer and distributor of automatic coffee centers, which it sells in over 50 countries. In 2008, Jura AG became the sole owner and parent of all U.S. Capresso and Jura Capresso operations.