Grinder maintenance schedule

Baldrick

So full disclosure I have just cleaned my specialita after about 2 months of use 😱
It has, to the surprise of absolutely no one, made a huge improvement to the taste of my coffee.

How often do you guys open your grinder and give her some TLC?

Also as an aside do you guys shim the burrs for that perfect alignment and if you have, do you notice an improvement in your cup/ mental well-being knowing that your burrs are set to Ghandi levels of tolerance?

Doram

Baldrick How often do you guys open your grinder and give her some TLC?

I clean my Niche every six weeks, just because it’s so easy to do and I love to see everything shiny and the burrs looking new. I do it after a chemical backflush and while I wait for the cam to cool down - only takes a few minutes to do.

All credit goes to the the Niche for being so simple to take apart and go back to where it was. Had an Iberital MC2 for ~5-6 years before that and never once cleaned it (yuck), because it was so difficult to dial in and I dreaded having to do it again.

Waitforme

I clean mine inside once every 3 or 4 months tbh, my thinking is that any grounds that are stuck anywhere are stuck and won’t be polluting my daily doses.

I checked mine for alignment a few days ago using the white board marker routine, expecting to have to shim the bottom burr but it was perfect, much to my surprise.

DavecUK

With the smaller Eurekas, I would recommend cleaning every 2 months. They can have a tendency to build up coffee and sometimes the buildup can stall the grinder.