Umm…guys…how the hell do whole beans pass through my grinder…happened once more before with 1 bean…but now 5?!?? 4 year old Graef CM800
Umm…guys…how the hell do whole beans pass through my grinder…happened once more before with 1 bean…but now 5?!?? 4 year old Graef CM800
by andrei525
39 Comments
bphilli11
Grind finer
Gorilla_Firefox
The CM800 is a very frustrating grinder. If you have the budget, get something better.
h3yn0w75
That’s wild. Never seen that before. I can’t even wrap my head around how it’s possible.
Emzii_be
If you spray your beans and use the same canister to collect ground coffee, the beans will stick to the bottom of the canister. 😉
Longjumping_Gur_2982
Its just like the peanut butter with pieces
yumacaway
You’ve stumbled into the plot line of the movie Unbreakable. Save those beans, they could be the heroes the world needs.
fdeyso
I’m baffled that no one checked the grinder and realised it’s a big-boys-toy wannabe cheap and cheerful chinese bottom of the shelf abomination. Sorry to say but if you cleaned the grinder and couldn’t find any broken/missing parts then it’s time to look for a replacement. A quick google search also reveals that it’s indeed a fairly common fault with this grinder.
winny9
Are you sure the dosing basket is empty before grinding into it?
arif-khodja
Talk about uneven grind 😂
Alexchii
They didn’t.
PoJenkins
They aren’t going through your grinder.
They’re just staying in the cup
joe_sausage
It’s like that experiment where photons ARE and also ARE NOT present at the same time depending on whether or not they’re being observed.
bryguypgh
At least you have a chance of surviving a rock in your beans
attemptedburger
A couple of times I have spilled a couple of beans when pouring them into my grinder and they’ve ended up in the dosing cup by chance
x__mephisto
Espresso tunneling effect in the grider. It only happens at certain energy levels.
TheJustAverageGatsby
This is what Lance Hedrick tells you will happen if you don’t warm start your grinder
MrMuf
It’s physically impossible for whole beans to pass through
No-Lead-2037
Nope. I see all of this logic, but I watched Unbreakable. Those are Super-beans.
coffeejn
You got to grind the cup with the beans to avoid this issue.
JohnDStevenson
Quantum tunnelling.
maxwell321
so… do you have any carbon monoxide detectors in your house?
ThePizzaHands
That is one lucky bean!!
wckd25
I dontknow but i laughed seeing this. Ahahahahhaha
MooseKnuckleCPA
Glitch in the Matrix.
woqer
If you are single dosing with the grinder on, sometimes some beans might fly out and fall on the portafilter. That has happened to me several times, now I cover a bit with my hand 😂
rodiaz6
It is same corn problem all over again
EnderSavesTheDay
Sometimes when I’m sleepy, beans miss the single dose hopper and go straight into my dosing cup and I don’t find out until later.
HamletJSD
I know this sounds far-fetched but has happened to me more than once (might be specific to my grinder geometry): when I’m trying to slow feed, I get 1-3 beans that popcorn and seem to fall straight towards the catch cup. I’ve watched them pop up and land down into the grind cup.
More likely that you spritzed the beans and they never came out of the cup, but there are other possibilities!
d3agl3uk
These beans have not gone through the grinder. No chance in hell. They were stuck in your dosing cup and you didn’t notice.
manu44
Has happened with me multiple times with Fellow Opus. If i spray the beans then a few beans get stick just above the burr blades and when i tap the fellow opus ( have to do it as it just stores around 1-2 gms of grinded coffee) the beans also drop down.
MrIceBurgh
Just simple quantum mechanics.
alkrk
Thats a crunchy crumb to sprinkle on top of your espresso. Great feature to have! 😆
strawmangva
Nice butt plug btw
chat_room
I have a DF64v, sometimes as I’m dumping the beans I’ll miss and one or two will fall into the canister waiting for the grounds… That’s the only feasible explanation to me. It’s subtle enough–especially with a grinder running–that it’s easy to miss it until you look at the grounds.
You could test by maybe “sealing” the chute off, like grind into a ziploc bag or something, with no space for anything to jump into the portafilter or cup or whatever you grind into. See if the problem repeats itself that way
photohuntingtrex
Did you check if there were any rocks in your grinder?
Mysterious-Coat-3275
Had a similar issue with my old baratza encore esp before I upgraded. my issue came from taking it apart to clean it and having a rubber gasket put in wrong so whole beans were able to fall through.
coffeeincardboard
Is this from Ghost Alley Espresso? They can phase through solid objects!
39 Comments
Grind finer
The CM800 is a very frustrating grinder. If you have the budget, get something better.
That’s wild. Never seen that before. I can’t even wrap my head around how it’s possible.
If you spray your beans and use the same canister to collect ground coffee, the beans will stick to the bottom of the canister. 😉
Its just like the peanut butter with pieces
You’ve stumbled into the plot line of the movie Unbreakable. Save those beans, they could be the heroes the world needs.
I’m baffled that no one checked the grinder and realised it’s a big-boys-toy wannabe cheap and cheerful chinese bottom of the shelf abomination. Sorry to say but if you cleaned the grinder and couldn’t find any broken/missing parts then it’s time to look for a replacement. A quick google search also reveals that it’s indeed a fairly common fault with this grinder.
Are you sure the dosing basket is empty before grinding into it?
Talk about uneven grind 😂
They didn’t.
They aren’t going through your grinder.
They’re just staying in the cup
It’s like that experiment where photons ARE and also ARE NOT present at the same time depending on whether or not they’re being observed.
At least you have a chance of surviving a rock in your beans
A couple of times I have spilled a couple of beans when pouring them into my grinder and they’ve ended up in the dosing cup by chance
Espresso tunneling effect in the grider. It only happens at certain energy levels.
This is what Lance Hedrick tells you will happen if you don’t warm start your grinder
It’s physically impossible for whole beans to pass through
Nope. I see all of this logic, but I watched Unbreakable. Those are Super-beans.
You got to grind the cup with the beans to avoid this issue.
Quantum tunnelling.
so… do you have any carbon monoxide detectors in your house?
That is one lucky bean!!
I dontknow but i laughed seeing this. Ahahahahhaha
Glitch in the Matrix.
If you are single dosing with the grinder on, sometimes some beans might fly out and fall on the portafilter. That has happened to me several times, now I cover a bit with my hand 😂
It is same corn problem all over again
Sometimes when I’m sleepy, beans miss the single dose hopper and go straight into my dosing cup and I don’t find out until later.
I know this sounds far-fetched but has happened to me more than once (might be specific to my grinder geometry): when I’m trying to slow feed, I get 1-3 beans that popcorn and seem to fall straight towards the catch cup. I’ve watched them pop up and land down into the grind cup.
More likely that you spritzed the beans and they never came out of the cup, but there are other possibilities!
These beans have not gone through the grinder. No chance in hell. They were stuck in your dosing cup and you didn’t notice.
Has happened with me multiple times with Fellow Opus. If i spray the beans then a few beans get stick just above the burr blades and when i tap the fellow opus ( have to do it as it just stores around 1-2 gms of grinded coffee) the beans also drop down.
Just simple quantum mechanics.
Thats a crunchy crumb to sprinkle on top of your espresso. Great feature to have! 😆
Nice butt plug btw
I have a DF64v, sometimes as I’m dumping the beans I’ll miss and one or two will fall into the canister waiting for the grounds… That’s the only feasible explanation to me. It’s subtle enough–especially with a grinder running–that it’s easy to miss it until you look at the grounds.
You could test by maybe “sealing” the chute off, like grind into a ziploc bag or something, with no space for anything to jump into the portafilter or cup or whatever you grind into. See if the problem repeats itself that way
Did you check if there were any rocks in your grinder?
Had a similar issue with my old baratza encore esp before I upgraded. my issue came from taking it apart to clean it and having a rubber gasket put in wrong so whole beans were able to fall through.
Is this from Ghost Alley Espresso? They can phase through solid objects!
Grinder definitely ain’t grinding then lol
Magic beans, sell to Jack, profit 💵