Puly Grind coffee grinder cleaner
What is Puly Grind?
Puly Grind is an Italian coffee grinder cleaner. The grinder cleaner comes as cleaning granules, sometimes called grinder pellets, in single-dose sachets that you run through the grinder like coffee beans, to clear oil and coffee residue from the burrs. The second product, in a 200 ml pack, is for cleaning the bean hopper, where coffee oils also build up.
Why clean a coffee grinder?
Coffee beans contain oils. Every time you grind, a thin film of oil and fine coffee dust stays behind on the burrs, in the grinding chamber and on the walls of the hopper. Over time that residue goes stale and rancid, and your fresh coffee picks up the taste. A grinder cleaner removes it without taking the grinder apart.
Which Puly Grind do you need?
Grinder cleaner, 10 sachets
The Puly Grind grinder cleaner contains ten sachets of cleaning granules. Each sachet is one pre-measured dose for one cleaning. It is meant for standalone espresso grinders and for grinders built into bean-to-cup machines.
Hopper cleaner, 200 ml
The Puly Grind hopper cleaner is for the bean hopper: the container above the grinder where the beans wait. Oil from the beans collects on its walls and turns sticky. Use it according to the instructions on the pack.
How to use the grinder cleaner
- Grind until there are no coffee beans left in the hopper and the grinder.
- Pour one sachet of granules into the empty hopper.
- Run the grinder until all granules have passed through.
- Grind a small amount of coffee beans to push out any remaining residue.
- Throw away that first portion of ground coffee. The grinder is ready to use.
Check the manual of your grinder or bean-to-cup machine before you use cleaning granules.
How often should you clean a grinder?
As a rule of thumb, once a month is enough for a grinder at home. A grinder that runs all day in a café or office needs it weekly.
Part of wider machine care
A clean grinder is one part of looking after your coffee machine. Puly Grind sits alongside our barista tools and other cleaning agents. For the rest of the machine you need other products.
- Descaler for the water tank and boiler
- Cleaning tablets for the brew group
- A brush for the hopper and the coffee chute