My husband was making coffee this morning, and when he dumped the coffee into the filter, he found a rubber band buried in the coffee. He had just ground the coffee in our Baratza Vario, and swears the rubber band must have come from the grinder.

The rubber band is approximately 15 1/2 inches long, and it looks like it was joined at one time to make a loop. It is 1/16 of an inch wide, and when I look at the cut end of the rubber band, it is "square", not round or flat.

The grinder seems to be working ok, so far...

Fifteen and a half inches?! How could that have gotten in there? It certainly could not have made it through the burrs.

Kids pranking you? You've taken away their Facebook or Nintendo? There you go

Perhaps a seal from the coffeemaker that fell into the basket, then got covered by the ground coffee.

Vario is working fine. Elastic band is too flimsy to be part of machine, but I don't know where it could have come from (don't recognize the elastic band and have no kids, only cats).

Current theory is the band was in the box of filters..otherwise its a mystery.