Maintenance of Italian bean grinder | cleaning and grinding correction of bean mill

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Italian coffee grinder is an indispensable partner of Italian coffee machine, coffee grinder cleaning is not in place, will directly affect the quality and taste of coffee. This issue introduces the cleaning methods of Italian coffee grinder.

The correct cleaning method of coffee mill

First, clean it easily.

1. After making coffee, clean up the residual coffee powder in the powder box.

two。 Keep the coffee mill area dry

3. Wipe the fuselage easily and keep it clean.

Second, clean regularly

1. Close the bezel of the bean warehouse and beat out the leftover beans

2. Turn off the power

3. Clean the powder outlet with a brush

4. Remove the remaining coffee powder from the powder accumulator and clean the inner wall of the powder reservoir with a brush

5. Remove the cutter head for cleaning

Did you see that? If you do not clean the knife head regularly, the accumulated fine powder will pile up in the cracks, seriously affecting the flavor of your coffee, making the Italian concentrated oil stinky, bitter, faint flavor, and even taste like herbal tea.

While cleaning the residual powder with a brush, you can check whether the blade is worn or notched, and if so, change the cutter head in time.

6. Clean the other cutter head and reinstall it

Since you have disassembled the cutter head, you need to recalibrate the grinding as follows:

First of all, slowly tighten the cutter head, and power on, when you hear the cutter head collision, immediately adjust to avoid cutter head wear.

Then pour the coffee beans back into the coffee beans and adjust them to the grinding degree used before to see if the grinding degree is suitable.

Here's a tip that can help us judge more quickly.

As shown in the above picture, coffee powder appears more "caking". Under the premise of excluding coffee bean oil and high humidity on that day, two preliminary judgments can be made: 1. The degree of grinding is too fine; 2. Cutter head wear needs to be replaced.

If only the degree of grinding is too fine, it is more appropriate to achieve the powder state as shown above by adjusting it. Even if there are small clumps, as long as it can be dispersed with a poke with a finger, it is a normal degree of grinding.

Finally, we can weigh the powder to do Italian concentration according to the job requirements, and then micro-investigate the grinding and extraction time and other parameters.