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I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make ground cinnamon
using cinnamon sticks.
Awesome.
I love freshly ground cinnamon.
Really easy to do.
Simple ingredients.
If I can do it, you can do it.
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Why might you want to use freshly ground cement?
Well, it smells so much better and it also tastes better.
You can just use the normal store brand, Kroger brand
or whatever cinnamon.
But if you want to elevate your dishes up, use some
freshly ground cinnamon.
It is awesome and it's so fragrant like it just smells
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So there's a variety of ways on how you can do
freshly ground cinnamon.
One way that I really like, especially if I just want a
small amount, is to use a microplane.
This is a microplane, but I typically what if you've seen a
lot of my videos and you see where I use zest and juice zest
like orange zest, lemon zest or lime zest in recipes?
I will use this microplane, but you can also use it
with CineFix, so you'll just take your microblading or take
a salmon stick here and you'll just run it over your.
You can just like, run it over if you want to add some
cinnamon to ice cream.
If you want to add it to maybe some rice pudding or something
like that just on top.
You can take some fresh lemon and garlic that
OK.
And then that's about how it comes out like this?
It's not super super fine powder like you might find when
you buy it at the store, but it's definitely fine enough
and it's smell so good that works perfectly for toppings
and for your needs.
And if you needed just maybe like a fourth teaspoon or
half teaspoon, you could definitely sit there for a few
minutes and grind it by hand with the Microplane.
If you want to do a couple of other manual ways that you can
make your own ground cinnamon by putting the salmon sticks in
like a Ziploc bag and taking a meat tenderizer and just
keep pounding it.
Another popular way for for hand grinding is using a
mortar and pestle.
You just put them in there and you just grind it.
That's kind of an old school, very traditional way,
but people still love to grind spices that way.
One of the most popular ways that's mechanical is using
a spice grinder.
That's specifically what it's made for is to grind spices
and cinnamon sticks.
So if you grind a lot of spices at home, pick up
a spice grinder.
A coffee grinder will work as well.
It's not quite as good as a specific spice grinder.
The food processor doesn't really work that way.
At least mine doesn't work that well.
It doesn't do a good job.
A better option than the food processor would be a
high speed blender.
The Vitamix brand comes to mind this is not a Vitamix, but if
you have a lighter mix that will work really, really well
for grinding your own cinnamon.
This is from home geek.
It's kind of like a Vitamix knockoff, but this
works really well as well.
So what you'll do is you will just take your blender.
I already have some in here that I was grinding earlier,
and I'm just going to put some sticks in there.
Some of these awesome cinnamon sticks from all nation.
OK.
Yeah, I'll put that one in there as well.
And you put on your land and we're going to you let
this round, you don't want to let it run for too long on
a high speed.
Don't go over 30 seconds.
But I have the speed all the way up to high.
I was going to start.
All right, fair enough, take a look.
And already it is such a much better job than the
food processor does.
Take a look.
I can still see there's a really fine powder on
the edges, which is amazing.
That's exactly where I want.
But then on the inside here, if you'll see if you can see
that very well on camera.
Hopefully, I can zoom in there and you'll see that there are.
Bigger chunk tonight, which will try to get
that oil refinery.
OK.
You remember, just don't do it more than about 30 seconds
at a time.
Oh yeah, that is looking fantastic.
And then if you want to, you can take like a little said
here and just to catch any bigger chunks.
I need a bigger bowl for this.
And then I'm going to set those aside, and then you could
put those back in the blender and blend them some more.
So here are the remnants again, a little bit
bigger chunks and that's still cinnamon gold.
Just run that back through the blender.
Or again, if you have a coffee grinder or spice grinder,
throw that in there and then this is the cinnamon powder.
Very, very fine.
There you go.
There are a few methods on how you can make your own
freshly ground cinnamon.
It is amazing.
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