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My morning brew tasted off until I cleaned my grinder for the first time in 6 months
The difference was insane, it was like getting a whole new bag of beans. Anyone have a good cleaning schedule for their Baratza Encore?
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the_piper9d ago
Cleaned my Encore after a year and it was like a fog lifted from my coffee. The old oils get rancid and mess with everything. I run a cleaning brush through the burrs every time I change beans now. A full tear down with removing the burrs happens every three months, maybe four if I'm lazy. It sounds like a lot but it only takes ten minutes. The difference in taste is worth the small hassle.
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dixon.james9d ago
A year? I'm surprised it still made coffee and not some kind of bitter sludge. I do a quick brush-out weekly, but my full burr removal is on a strict "when I start tasting ghosts of beans past" schedule.
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