How can I clean a manual coffee mill?

QUESTION:

How do you clean the mechanism of a manual coffee mill in order to prevent the build-up of oils and residue that could harm the coffee flavor???

Anxious to buy a coffee mill.

Mary

ANSWER:

Mary, hi

The answer may surprise you. : )

Take some uncooked white rice and grind it in the mill. The ground rice absorbs the oils left behind by the ground coffee.

And you're right to think about cleaning the mill, as the old oils build up and, over time, become rancid and add a bitter taste to the fresh coffee beans you grind.

Simply run the rice through your coffee mill a few times. Finally, run some coffee beans through the mill to pick up any fragments of rice and discard the first batch of ground coffee.

Then you'll be ready to start grinding perfect coffee again.

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