Deep cleaning your grinder

Systemic

Just finished cleaning and calibrating my EKs and checking my diary saw it was almost a year since the last strip down and clean

Cuprajake

i tend to do it monthly

PortafilterProcrastinator

Every three months keeps me happy.

Jony

Well lately I’ve been very lazy definitely 3 months only use it onve in the morning for filter. No espresso

MattH

What do you mean by deep clean ? I will take off the upper burr - give it a brush and hoover out every now and again.

Luckily everything is quite accessible and easy to put back

MediumRoastSteam

MattH What do you mean by deep clean ?

Usually you would have access to both burrs, clean them all, clean the chute, clean the carrier, clean the chamber.

With the Niche the process is:

remove screw and disk;
remove adjust collar;
remove top burr from spindle;
remove lower burr and the sweeper;
remove the springs.

Clean them all with a brush. vacuum the chamber and chute. Put it all back in reverse order.
Takes 15 minutes if you are meticulous and clumsy like me.

MattH

MediumRoastSteam luckily the allground is just twist and pop to get at the burrs.

Seems a very clean grinder - plus the funnel is on magnets which you can pull out.

Glad to hear I am pretty much doing what I should 😂

JonWoo187

After each daily use either grinder (electric/manual) gets brushed/vacuumed out without any real teardown. Doing that daily definitely keeps things relatively clean and little buildup.

JHCCoffee

Just curious. What is the rational for cleaning more vs less frequently? Are there any impacts on taste, grinder performance, burr or motor life, etc. FYI, I have a Niche Zero.

Cuprajake

on something like a niche unless your grinding coal dark oil beans no, they hold less than a gram inside them