Topic: Cleaning your coffee brewing and grinding equipment
Guest: Chris O’Brien
Title: Co-Founder, Coffee Buyer/Broker
Instagram: @coffeecycleroasting
Website: www.coffeecycleroasting.com
Hey everyone. Coffee Smarter is off this week in terms of releasing a new episode, but this show is a spin-off of the Roast! West Coast coffee podcast. The following is a conversation Chris O’Brien, Founder of Coffee Cycle Roasting in Pacific Beach, San Diego, California, and I had on the importance of cleaning your at-home brewers and grinders and coffee equipment. I hope you enjoy it and learn how to better Coffee Smarter along the way.
FROM THE SHOW
Chris talked about these grinder cleaning tablets during the show: Urnex Grindz Coffee Grinder Cleaning Tablets. I was glad to see that according to the brand, the tablets are “Formulated from all-natural, plant-based ingredients. Does not contain phosphates. All ingredients are food safe.”
While I was online, I also found this coffee machine descaler cleaner which seemed relevant to include here.
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COFFEE VOCAB FROM THIS EPISODE
Single Dosing: The measuring and grinding of a single serving of coffee beans, a single dose. The grinding is done right before brewing to ensure freshness.
Purge Beans: Beans that are run through the grinder for the purpose of pushing old, stale grinds and/or debris out from inside the machine to ensure the channel to the catcher is clean and the coffee grinds being brewed are fresh.
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E8: Coffee Smarter - Cleaning Your Coffee Equipment