Robert Young always warned us about<\/a>. \u00a0The Breville has a\u00a0round steel platter with a single rectangular hole. \u00a0The hole is over the grinds chute during grinding, letting the grinds through to the hopper, then rotates after grinding to separate the grinder from the steam that comes up from the hot grinds in the hopper. \u00a0Pretty smart.<\/p>\nWith the volume of coffee I ram through this thing though, it is only a matter of time before that platter becomes caked with grinds tar. \u00a0That happened today, to the point where the platter stopped rotating properly. \u00a0The grinder sounds like a freight train, and with the grind chute blocked due to the platter not rotating, today it sounded like a seriously wounded freight train squealing to its death. \u00a0I’m sure the motor would have burned out if I let it try to go the whole cycle. \u00a0I had to get the platter unstuck.<\/p>\n
I tried to find a disassembly guide to remove the platter, and found out that most of the machine is hot-glued together, making repair difficult. \u00a0In the end, I cleaned the whole thing of beans and grinds, then sprayed soapy suds all over the platter. \u00a0I turned the machine on, locked down\u00a0the bean hopper, and closed the door, so the plate would attempt to rotate closed. \u00a0 Then I opened the door and unlocked\u00a0the hopper, so it would rotate open again. \u00a0I repeated this several times. \u00a0Then I wiped it all down very well and repeated with clean water. \u00a0After a few more rotations, I sprayed canola oil all around the plate, and repeated more\u00a0open\/close rotations. \u00a0I wiped down around the edges of the platter, that tar kept squeezing out in little bits. \u00a0I found that if you over-rotated the plate to the left, past the chute, then when the machine went to rotate the plate back to the right, it would KNOW that it was off, and rotate it ALL THE WAY AROUND to the left. \u00a0Sweet! \u00a0Gently holding a paper towel in the hole as it did a full rotation allowed me to get the back side of the plate pretty clean. \u00a0Clean enough to get it all working again. \u00a0All is full of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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