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The 3 am shift at that truck stop diner off I-40 that taught me a real lesson about coffee grinders
Last Tuesday I worked the overnight at Deb's Diner on exit 87 and the Bunn coffee machine started making this awful grinding noise around 2 am. Turns out nobody had cleaned the burr grinder in like 6 months, and I spent 30 minutes picking out crusted up old coffee dust. Has anyone else found that regular maintenance on those commercial machines actually saves you time in the long run?
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caleb_stone21d ago
That 30 minutes you spent scraping crusted old coffee dust is probably the exact reason the machine lasted through the rest of your shift without seizing up completely. What did you use to break through the buildup, just a stiff brush or did you have to soak the burrs in anything? I've found that once the oils get baked on from all that heat cycling, you're basically fighting concrete.
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xena_brown5021d ago
Fighting concrete" is right, I used a stiff brush and a prayer.
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