Grind up ores into dust and smelt it!
Place the grinder with the handle on top
As seen below, put in ore and use the grinder with your empty hand
Then the dust is smelted in a furnace
Full compatibility with JEI for grinding recipes https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/jei
As of Minecraft 1.20, there is an automatic handle that spins by itself, and the manual handle that needs a player or auto clicker/user
Customize the recipes in a data pack https://github.com/Lothrazar/PlainGrinder/tree/trunk/1.16/src/main/resources/data/plaingrinder/recipes
New versions have CraftTweaker support here are some examples
Example Config file to change lots of things see plaingrinder.toml
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