It's perfect for me, it grinds quickly, smoothly at the touch of the lid to grind several sticks at a time

I never thought I'd be grinding whole cinnamon sticks whenever I needed some powder - but it's fast enough at it

Unfortunately the instruction manual said it would grind cinnamon sticks, and I believed it.

and I did break each stick into 3 or 4 pieces before grinding.

I can grind cinnamon sticks to powder instantly.

I have used this grinder for 3-4 years at least once a day to grind a cinnamon stick for my oatmeal

I've been using this quite often to grind cinnamon sticks and whole nutmeg

The blades are heavy duty so they don't break when you grind cinnamon sticks and other hard spices.

I use it to grind up cinnamon sticks and dried chipotle peppers, it blasts right through them no problem

I used a coffee grinder for years to grind cinnamon sticks for oatmeal.

Today I tried, unsuccessfully, to grind cinnamon sticks, when the grinder stopped working.

Will grind whole cinnamon sticks to a fine powder in seconds.

Okay but a little hard still to grind cinnamon sticks.

The bottom would blend and the top would get stuck and wouldn't move or mix

I have found that breaking the cinnamon sticks with a mallet before putting them in the grinder makes it less likely that a stick will get stuck and jam the grinder blade.

This little grinder can even grind cinnamon sticks to a fine powder, BUT cinnamon sticks dull blades.

Perfect I dried orange peel and ground it up.

I'm hoping Cuisinart will replace it so will update if I hear from them, but really bummed as I liked the grinder for what I was doing