I have seen it happen to others here, but didn’t think it would happen to me
Today i found a rock in my beans, I don’t usually pay much attention to them when scooping them out. Thank god it landed right on top and I noticed it before dumping them into my grinder.
by jcoles97
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Salt-Replacement596
I bought coffee at a market in Kenya and when I got home my grinder stopped working. Took me a while to find a stone jammed between the burrs that looked almost exactly as a coffee bean (both color and shape). Threw away the whole bag 🙁
Luckily I was using a cheap superautomatic not a $1000+ grinder.
allgonetoshit
If you are actually buying coffee from a source where the probability that there might be a rock in the beans is not zero, then that is your #1 problem.
Edit: Everybody in here buying coffee from roasters with incredibly lacking QA and thinking it’s the norm, LOL. Buy better coffee from better roasters and stop defending those terrible ones.
insight_seeker00
That’s horrible. I hope I’ll avoid it
Cultural_Physics5866
I hope this never happens to me
Sam_GT3
Tis the season
TibaltLowe
Name and shame
cliffy348801
i leave the small rocks in as they do provide a more authentic experience and the trace minerals are a bonus. It’s a method used in smaller wave zero cafes.
Showerbeer77
Roastery operator here. Larger roasters have a hard time catching these because they mostly come from origin off of the patios the coffees are dried on. If you are roasting full green bags at a time it can be so difficult to detect. Smaller roasters can visually inspect much easier. Just a note that its really not about a roastery not caring or having poor qc practices. Its more of a needle in a haystack issue. It’s still helpful to notify the roastery so they can pay more attention to that lot in the future.
Caramelshots11
It’s rare but inspecting before a grind will not regret 🙌
stopthecrowd
I’ve seen it happen, in bags that aren’t mine, now it’s happening in mine – Morrissey
bayrho
I also had a rock recently in a bag of Pelé espresso from Axil. Does anybody know the reason?
Funny enough it happened to me for the first time today too! Thankfully I was hand grinding and immediately felt the stall, so I avoided damaging the burrs. Not sure how my Mignon would’ve fared 🫠
cab1024
It will never happen to me.
thenikolaka
Ah dropped a rock in your beans, happens to the best of us
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I bought coffee at a market in Kenya and when I got home my grinder stopped working. Took me a while to find a stone jammed between the burrs that looked almost exactly as a coffee bean (both color and shape). Threw away the whole bag 🙁
Luckily I was using a cheap superautomatic not a $1000+ grinder.
If you are actually buying coffee from a source where the probability that there might be a rock in the beans is not zero, then that is your #1 problem.
Edit: Everybody in here buying coffee from roasters with incredibly lacking QA and thinking it’s the norm, LOL. Buy better coffee from better roasters and stop defending those terrible ones.
That’s horrible. I hope I’ll avoid it
I hope this never happens to me
Tis the season
Name and shame
i leave the small rocks in as they do provide a more authentic experience and the trace minerals are a bonus. It’s a method used in smaller wave zero cafes.
Roastery operator here. Larger roasters have a hard time catching these because they mostly come from origin off of the patios the coffees are dried on. If you are roasting full green bags at a time it can be so difficult to detect. Smaller roasters can visually inspect much easier. Just a note that its really not about a roastery not caring or having poor qc practices. Its more of a needle in a haystack issue. It’s still helpful to notify the roastery so they can pay more attention to that lot in the future.
It’s rare but inspecting before a grind will not regret 🙌
I’ve seen it happen, in bags that aren’t mine, now it’s happening in mine – Morrissey
I also had a rock recently in a bag of Pelé espresso from Axil. Does anybody know the reason?
https://preview.redd.it/5lfxjo6m7esd1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86711d00a155fb862ea6f6ba69383d84054a5f52
Funny enough it happened to me for the first time today too! Thankfully I was hand grinding and immediately felt the stall, so I avoided damaging the burrs. Not sure how my Mignon would’ve fared 🫠
It will never happen to me.
Ah dropped a rock in your beans, happens to the best of us