4mo ago

Cleaned the coffee grinder.

I accidentally bought ground coffee instead of whole beans. So when the grinder ran out of beans, I took it apart and gave it a decent scrub. When I use it again, it should grind smoother and maybe even get the coffee tasting better.

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What grinder do you have?
- Are you sure that you are in the right community? These kind of questions are getting close to interesting.
  
  The answers have returned the conversation to dullness. Talking about the specifics of coffee grinders ... yawn
- Oxo conical burr grinder. Fairly common, works well enough.
  
  That's a slightly bigger boy than my hario hand grinder!
Highly recommend keeping your grinder clean. Two months old leftover dust isn’t going to improve the taste in any way.
- What about two year dust?
  
  There are grinder cleaners that are basically coffee beans made of cleaner that you can order from any place that sells coffee equipment.
  You grind the cleaner then grind a batch of sacrificial beans and you're good to go.
  
  I call that seasoning
I've heard that running uncooked rice through is an easy way to clean them. Never tried it though
- When I worked slinging coffees, we used a specific coffee machine cleaning substance. You poured in these pill shaped bits and they'd absorb excess oil as they ground through the machine.
How do you even clean them?
- Disassemble as best you can, brush out all the bits with a clean paintbrush, damp cloth to wipe everything. It's not factory clean but it's better.
Watching this.
Is there any update/followup bot for lemmy?

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