another_jim wrote:I doubt rice or Grindz has any use in seasoning the burrs, since one of the objectives of seasoning is to give them a patina of coffee oils, not to remove those.

Is that all that seasoning is? I figured that's at least part of it, but always assumed there was an element of honing/dulling the fresh edges of the blades a bit as well. If that's part of it, I could imagine rice might help do that part faster.

It makes me wonder if anybody's ever tried, say, rolled oats to clean out a grinder. It's much softer than rice and probably has a lot of the oil-removing properties. Plus you can use the oat grinds to make chocolate chip cookies with a hint of rancid coffee.

I have ran oats through the coffee grinder at the local grocery store:D

I used to do it as an additive for a post-workout protein shake as working out is one of my hobbies. The coffee grinder did a nice job of turning it into a flour like substance that mixed very easy with whey protein.

I kicked over a glass of red wine on my beige carpet. I ground a pint of rice through my Mahlkoenig bag grinder and sprinkled it on the stain. Vacuumed it up the next day and all was well.

You're welcome.

All as in the carpet and burrs?

Ooh yeah, clean carpet, clean burrs.

Epic win.

Tip du jour - Want clean grinder? Kick wine on carpet.

When I was only using my hand grinder for espresso.. a while back.. I would put a couple tablespoons of whiterice in the "hopper", and grind it through by hand. MUCH harder then even a very light roast, for brewed coffee.

Once I got the Major.. and a month went by.. I grabbed the rice.. And stopped. I thought to myself it would probably be too hard for the burrs.. and since I just put brand new burrs in, I didn't want to find out. So, I just cleaned by hand.

Now, I use Grindz. Its a wonderful product, and does a very good job. Once a month, a capful goes in. Ive already used it a couple times on the Major, but not yet on the Vario. Vario is sometime next week for cleaning.

For seasoning the Major.. I just picked up 5lbs of whole bean coffee, cheapest the store had, and ran it through.. then cleaned it out real good, and then went on my merry way.

frustrated_uk wrote:Ooh yeah, clean carpet, clean burrs.

Epic win.

Tip du jour - Want clean grinder? Kick wine on carpet.

LOL!

frustrated_uk wrote:I kicked over a glass of red wine on my beige carpet. I ground a pint of rice through my Mahlkoenig bag grinder and sprinkled it on the stain. Vacuumed it up the next day and all was well.

You're welcome.

I used to be in the textile business, so of course I came across quite a few tricks for removing/preventing staining, but never that one. I'm almost tempted to spill some wine just to test it out