How to Grind Weed Without a Grinder

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s left you desperately asking, how to grind weed without a grinder. We’ve all been in this predicament before, all the marijuana in the world and nothing to grind it with. Is the world ending? Of course not, we’ve all managed to figure out how to get our buds into perfect smokable condition.

What have we learned along the way? When left in a pinch, everyone has a different technique when there are no weed grinders in sight. Over time, we’ve all developed various ways to tackle this problem. But maybe you’ve never considered there may be a better way to grind weed without a grinder.

Take the time to learn from your fellow cannabis enthusiasts. There is more than one way to kill a cat as they say, and there is more than one way to grind bud without a proper grinder.

How to Grind Weed Without a Grinder: 9 Helpful Suggestions

Scissors

The go-to for all smokers in need of a grinder is a pair of scissors. Most people have scissors already stored safely in their weed box anyway. There are many ways to perfect the scissor technique; everyone seems to have a personal preference. Some people don’t get fancy; they cut directly over the rolling paper about to be rolled. Others have a small container, like a pill container, that they use to control the action. It’s not difficult, and at the end of the day, gets the job done.

Pill Bottle and Coin Technique

Youtube videos will quickly demonstrate to you exactly how useful the pill bottle technique is. Place a tiny nug at the bottom of an empty prescription container, and then place on top an appropriately sized coin. A nickel or quarter usually works best. Snap on the lid, and shake vigorously for 15 seconds or more. Upon opening the bottle, you’ll quickly see a perfectly ground product. All done without a grinder.

Kitchen Knife

Using a kitchen knife and a cutting board is not revolutionary by any means. But many weed smokers forget about this simple technique. Even if you can’t find your scissors or a pill bottle for the method above, you can surely find a kitchen knife. This technique also gives you better quality control of the size of the grind compared to some of the other options on the list.

Coffee Grinder

Your coffee grinder will never be the same again once you’ve ground up your weed in it. A coffee grinder quickly and efficiently grinds even the densest and stickiest weed without issue. It takes full buds down to powder in a matter of seconds. If you’ve got a lot of weed to grind, a coffee grinder powers through it. But, you must be willing to part with your coffee grinder for the foreseeable future. Otherwise, your next morning coffee may have a particularly dank aroma.

Pollen Shakers

A pollen shaker is the latest invention in the cannabis world to remove the profoundly medicinal trichomes and crystals from your bud. If you’ve never encountered one before, they are essentially the same set up as a kief catching grinder. That is, without the grinder part.

Three chambers, with screens separating them. In the top portion sits the weed, and once the box or tub is closed, all that’s required is a good shaking. The crystals sift through the screens and end up in the kief collection section. There are tons of ways to make these at home, but you can also buy some pretty slick options like the Bamboo Green Goddess online. It’s one of many new innovative weed accessories.

Cheese Grater

Resorting to the cheese grater is not pretty, but sometimes it’s the only tool left in your arsenal. It works best for dry, large buds because at the end of the day it’s more about the grating motion than about the actual grater blades.

Use either the small or medium sized grate, and firmly draw the weed nug up and down against it. In most cases, the action of grating against a rough surface will successfully break up the tight flower. It’s a rudimentary version of a pocket-sized Marijuana Grinder Card.

Weed Butter

A weed butter recipe is taking the problem of no weed grinder and making the best of it. It’s the cannabis version of the saying, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So, when life takes away your grinder, make weed butter.

You need (rather obviously) butter, weed and s source of heat. You’ll also need a weed butter recipe. The weed flower will only need a quick chop, and within a few hours, you’ll have some perfect THC filled butter ready for your next baking session.

Good Old Fashioned Fingers

When all else fails, we can always rely on the good old-fashioned finger technique. It’s slow, it’s, sticky, but it works. Your fingers will get covered in the crystals. You will inevitably not get the fine grind that you wanted. You probably will take far to long doing it. But, in the end, you will have smokable ground up weed that will just as effectively roll into a joint like any other grind.

We’ve laid out how to grind weed without a grinder, you’ve hopefully gotten your weed to a perfectly fine grind and ready to smoke. But what methods are we missing? What ways have you used in the past?

Rosin Hair Straightener

Impress all your friends by taking your fully formed flowers and turning them into a potent rosin extraction. You’ll need to find a hair straightener first, and a piece of parchment paper to protect the heat elements.

Take the flower, place it between two pieces of parchment paper, and put the package between the blades of a heated straightening iron. The hotter, the better. The key is to apply pressure as you carefully press down on the straightener. Don’t be afraid to put your entire body weight into it.

The magic happens when you peel away the paper to discover a glistening extraction of pure cannabinoids and terpenes on the paper. The best part of the process is there is no need to grinder beforehand. Full flowers can go directly onto the parchment.