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Capresso 560.01- EASY Stale coffee cleaning tip, and found better!
UPDATE-
Thankfully this HASSLE grinder quit soon!- I bit the bullet & bought a Kitchenaid coffee grinder. No more messy chamber clean-up, and much less fine-grinds to over-extract (almost a store-bought even grind!).
If you rattle the glass carafe around sharply before removing- No dust left in grind chamber.
KitchenAid Pro Line Series Burr Coffee Mill, Onyx Black
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The main thing I "didn't" like about this Capresso grinder was that it left a substantial quantity of loose/ground coffee in the grinding chamber. This old/stale coffee will mix with the next batch you grind.
Cleaning the grinding chamber with their little brush every time is a messy, and time consuming HASSLE (cleaned coffee goes to WASTE!)!
What I do to easily clean the grinding chamber, and save the coffee-
After grinding a batch, and whole bean chamber is empty.
I set the timer on "1", to let it run empty. While running- I tilt it forward & "sharply" slap the top, and all 4 sides- once.
This will shake out an extra 1 tsp.+ of coffee, that is added to my brew batch!
February 2006 · Home and Kitchen