Maintenance of bean grinder: function and usage of clean ingot of bean mill

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Cleaning the bean grinder is an important lesson

No matter how powerful and expensive the grinder you use, there will still be a little coffee residue

What's more, there are coffee oil stains, fuel consumption smell into the knife head problem

Therefore, regular bean grinder maintenance is absolutely necessary

If you don't take good care of it, it may directly affect your brewing quality.

After grinding, brush + blow the ball to push the residual powder out of the bean grinder. This is a good habit after brewing.

Open the cutter head regularly and thoroughly clean the residual powder + wipe off the grease on the cutter head. This is periodic maintenance.

But there are two things worth thinking about in opening the cutterhead.

1. The grease problem is not easy to clean, and the inner cutter plate is hidden in the fuselage, which is even more difficult to do.

If you grind the dark baked beans, the problem of oil stains will be more serious

Even the cutter head will smell of oil consumption. If it is not clean, it will wear more and more strange smell.

2. Some people are unwilling to disassemble the cutter head for fear of the possibility of the scale running away or various broken

This can't be said to be wrong. After all, not everyone has research on bean grinders. If they can, they won't dismantle them.

But in the long run, the quality of the ground beans is still harmful, so it is still necessary to clean them.

And so the world invented this thing called the bean-grinder cleaner (green jar in the picture).

Bean grinder cleaner tablets look like pet food.

Generally made of organic + natural raw materials, in line with food safety regulations

After all, it's going to be used in cleaning the bean grinder, so it's going to be okay to eat it.

Functionally quite practical

First, the fine powder of the cleaning tablet can absorb oil stains, thoroughly clean the cutter head, and eliminate the smell of oil consumption.

Second, the residual powder can be squeezed out of the bean grinder

Third, there is no need to disassemble the knife plate, so that people with phobia of the knife plate can still maintain the cleanliness of the bean grinder.

Here's a simple demonstration of how to use the bean grinder to clean the tablet

First of all, the beans in the bean trough are polished, and then poured directly into the cleaning tablet.

About 10g is enough for a household bean grinder

Unless the oil smell is really heavy, you can put a little more and wash it clean.

Then turn the grinding degree to the finest, and directly turn on the machine to grind the cleaning tablet into powder

This will allow more fine powder to cover your cutter head and absorb all the grease

Of course, you must find a high container to receive dry powder, otherwise ultrafine powder will spray everywhere.

(In order to let everyone see the effect, so use a short cup to install it, spray it to the body)

It'll only take a few seconds, and your grinder will be clean.

Black spots can be seen in the cleaned ingot powder after grinding

This is the fine powder left in your grinder.

You can smell it, too. You can smell gas if you haven't cleaned it for a long time.

But it's not over yet. You still have to clean up the rest of the cleaning tablets.

You don't want to test the flavor of a cleansing tablet with a glass (although it's not harmful to you if you accidentally drink it).

So before brewing a cup of coffee, take about 10-20g of coffee beans

2-3 times into the bean grinder grinding machine, squeeze out the remaining cleaning tablets

It can be seen that there is white powder in the ground coffee powder, which is the fine powder of the cleaning tablet that is pushed out.

Grind twice more to remove the fine powder thoroughly, and your bean grinder will be as clean as new.

The cycle of using cleaning tablets depends on the amount of ground beans and the baking degree of the beans

In principle, grinding 2-3 times a day for family use, once a month for maintenance is enough

But if you prefer a medium roast, the oil buildup will increase

It is best to change to 2-3 weeks of maintenance to ensure the best grinding quality

Last but not least, most of the cleaning tablets sold on the market are commercial large-capacity packs.

The price will be slightly higher, but one can can last for a super long time (but there is still the problem of shelf life)