If youre weak and need a quick coffee boost, dont use this grinder to get your speedy coffee pep/up. The grinder works well, come on, its manual so one would expect that it would take a few (10) minutes to grind 6 teaspoons of coffee beans. I dont know that anyone else had this problem, but after grinding my beans I noticed there were minute whitish transparent pieces (not many) in the last part of the grinded coffee. I looked at several of those pieces and they certainly would pierce the coffee filter, and they were just at the end of the grind. Perhaps I grinded too much after all the beans were processed by the mill. The coffee beans are held by plastic teeth and a ceramic processor actually grinds beans so I am not sure where/how minute plastic pieces ended up at the end of my grinding. Perhaps the coffee beans themselves were waxed. I did wash all pieces thoroughly. Well, its a mystery. Ill watch my second grind and assure that I dont grind past the time when the crank gets real easy to turn, even though, small amount of coffee beans are left in the mill.
Im keeping my hand crank coffee bean grinder so that the next time that the motor on my electric one burns out after a year or two or from a tiny amount of water getting into the well, well Ill have this little gem to make coffee grinds from beans. Good for survival purposes too!
Grinding Not For Faint at Heart
If youre weak and need a quick coffee boost, dont use this grinder to get your speedy coffee pep/up. The grinder works well, come on, its manual so one would expect that it would take a few (10) minutes to grind 6 teaspoons of coffee beans. I dont know that anyone else had this problem, but after grinding my beans I noticed there were minute whitish transparent pieces (not many) in the last part of the grinded coffee. I looked at several of those pieces and they certainly would pierce the coffee filter, and they were just at the end of the grind. Perhaps I grinded too much after all the beans were processed by the mill. The coffee beans are held by plastic teeth and a ceramic processor actually grinds beans so I am not sure where/how minute plastic pieces ended up at the end of my grinding. Perhaps the coffee beans themselves were waxed. I did wash all pieces thoroughly. Well, its a mystery. Ill watch my second grind and assure that I dont grind past the time when the crank gets real easy to turn, even though, small amount of coffee beans are left in the mill. Im keeping my hand crank coffee bean grinder so that the next time that the motor on my electric one burns out after a year or two or from a tiny amount of water getting into the well, well Ill have this little gem to make coffee grinds from beans. Good for survival purposes too!