18 Best Weed Grinders 2021

Just because it’s cheap doesn’t mean it’s crap. This zinc alloy grinder comes with five pieces—including two mesh screens to sift pollen from your weed, and a little scraper to use for the catch tray so not a speck is wasted—with sharp teeth and a magnetic seal. If it seems too large, then remove a mesh screen to shorten it.

For a more tactile option, get DCOU’s hand-crank grinder. A spin of the handle operates blades that chop up weed and filter it through a mesh screen. The clear lid allows you to monitor the entire operation.

The Kingtop grinder is nearly as big as the palm of your hand, great for when you have a considerable amount of bud and don’t need to be discreet. Its four pieces include a magnetically sealed cap, a grinder, a mesh screen, and a catch tray—a big one, at that—and its 45 teeth ensure smooth grinding.

This grinder has a lotta happy customers. Makes sense. It grinds weed evenly and with precision, it’s built like a tank, it has a mesh screen and strong magnetic seal, and it hovers around 20 bucks. It’s a workhorse that’ll keep gliding through many a grind.

Mendo Mulcher makes some tough grinders—all out of solid, aircraft-grade aluminum—but this one might be the most useful. At only 1.75 inches across, it’s best for travel, and its extra-grippy construction ensures you won’t slip up while using it despite its small size. With only two pieces, you’re short a mesh filter. But it does have a cool, hardware quality to it.

Looking like a pharmacy bottle for medicine that may or may not be prescribed, the Medtainer is airtight, water-tight, and scent-trapping, with a grinder built into the cap. Studio A-OK made it fancy with a marbled design.  

If you’d call your personal style minimalist and refined, then here’s a grinder to match it. Made from aluminum alloy and unmarked with labels and logos, it is an accessory worthy of top-grade flower. Go all out and get an Apothecarry case for all your cannabis accouterments while you’re at it.

Instead of teeth, this grinder has razor-sharp blades, which pulverize weed into a fine powder. And instead of a predictable design, it looks like it belongs to the engine of a 1961 Jaguar E-Type.

Speaking of unpredictable design. Zam’s grinder philosophy is make it pocketable and make it modular—as well as make it graspable, magnetic, and load-bearing (as in, it’ll store enough weed for a day out).

Papers + Ink celebrates the brash, indiscreet nature of today’s weed accessories with its iridescent, oil slick of a color palette. Grinders ought to broadcast some personality. Too loud, though? Papers + Ink sells a shimmery black grinder, too. For yourself, or the marijuana enthusiast in your life.

Kannastör’s grinder is a mix-and-match marvel with extra storage options, two removable screens, and the option to break it down into a more portable size. Better yet, it comes with two interchangeable grater (hence the name) plates so you can pick your coarseness—fine or medium. Made with hardened aluminum in a matte design that looks real nice, it’ll last you. 

The large Tectonic9 leans to the Inspector Gadget side of things. You put the weed into the chamber and grind it up, standard procedure. But accessing it is what is pretty damn nifty: That silver dispenser flips up from underneath the grinder and fits over a hole (which you manually open and close). Tip, and freshly ground herb neatly falls out. 

A pen shape better lends itself to traveling light. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t rely on this pen while planted firmly on the couch. It’ll manually grind and store three grams of herb, and when you’re ready to put that herb to good use, the electric dispenser at the tip will evenly dole it out.

Why move your wrists at all? Quant engineered an electric grinder, made from stainless steel, that blitzes through bud in 10 seconds, dispenses it neatly, and stores whatever’s left over.

You get into spoil-yourself territory with the Santa Cruz Shredder. Known for its unique tooth design, it churns out perfectly ground, fluffy weed into a canister sealed with extra-strong magnets. You buy it once, then never have to worry about buying a grinder again.

The Gilded grinder wasn’t built to be shoved into a junk drawer or lost under the couch. It glimmers, it is gold. Or rather, brushed brass. It’s a statement grinder if we’ve ever seen one. Besides aluminum grinding teeth and a scraper, the catch compartment is impressively spacious. 

Instead of aluminum or zinc alloy like most cheaper grinders, Iaso’s grinder is constructed out of stainless steel. That means the canister and its teeth will last a lifetime of grinds. Iaso also uses a special labyrinth seal design intended to prevent annoying binding or sticking. It’s a luxe option for sure.

Here’s where things get wild: a smart grinder. Eliminate user error altogether. The Otto automatically adjusts to the herb, sensing exactly what grind is required for the best results. Then, it funnels what it grinds directly into a paper cone for easy rolling (you can skip this step). Of course, then you’re stuck with machine maintenance—charging, storage, cleaning, all that. Nevertheless, it’s a cool gadget. 

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