However you measure your beans, you’ll need to be accurate so you can get the exact amount of coffee you want. Whole beans can be measured with a scoop. You can also invest in a scale with a built-in timer, like this one from Coffee Gator.

The process of grinding or blending with a blade grinder, food processor, or blender requires taking your time. Decide what grind you are going to use.

Once the ground beans have been pulsed, check their size, and pulse again. You need to repeat this process until the desired grind size is reached, and you should avoid letting the ground become too hot.

If you’re using a burr grinder, adjust the settings to your liking. In order to fine-tune your brewing process, you may want to take notes on different grind sizes to observe what effect they have on extraction.

Try grinding a few beans first to see how the grinder is set up. Once you have it adjusted, you can grind your premeasured beans.

Cleaning and Maintaining a Coffee Grinder

It is important to clean your coffee grinder, whether you use it exclusively for coffee or not, both to keep it in top condition and to ensure that you will be able to make coffee consistently fresh.

Essential oils are released when whole beans are ground. Wherever freshly ground coffee is collected, from the grinder chamber to the bean hopper, these oils are combined with fine coffee particles.

Sticky coffee oils can form when coffee oils accumulate. You can eventually clog your machine with oils, coffee particles, and fine coffee dust, damaging components and even impeding performance.

It is also possible for the oils and coffee particles to become stale, compromising the flavor of fresh batches of beans you grind afterward.

The Daily Care

The key is to maintain vigilante and consistent behavior. The grinding chamber and hopper should be brushed out each week with a soft brush kept beside the machine.

A paper towel or soft cloth can also be used to wipe the hopper and grinding chamber to remove coffee dust, grinds and residual oils. The grinder should be unplugged before you begin the cleaning process.

Deep Cleaning

The best way to keep a home grinder in good working order is to clean it thoroughly. In order to absorb the particles and oils, you can run rice through your grinder, but as simple and affordable as this sounds, it may not always be the best option.

A hard grain of rice can stress the burrs and motor of the machine more than a soft one. Also, rice can produce a residue of starch that may accumulate in the long run and cause problems.

Cleaners such as Urnex Grindz Professional Coffee Grinder Cleaning Tablets should be used on coffee grinders that use food-grade pellets.

If you wish to make sure no particles remain in your coffee grinder after grinding a spoonful of pellets, run the mill with a few whole beans about once or twice a month.

Moreover, you can do a deep clean every month – a worthwhile chore. Remove your grinder from the power source. Most coffee grinders have a collar that can be removed to get at the outer burrs.

Grit can be removed by using air as a first step. To clean a keyboard with compressed air, you could use a can of compressed air.

After the burrs have been cleaned, debris will likely be left on the outer and inner burrs, grinds bin, and chute. Clean these areas with a toothpick or a soft toothbrush after this initial cleaning. If the grind bin and chute have any traces of oil, wipe them with a soft cloth.

Additionally, the sensitive burrs are not friendly to water. Whenever possible, dry cloths should be used.