What do you do when salt grinder will not grind anymore?
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If you purchased one our mills please contact us with your order number we take good care of our customers. Our Original Pump & Grind mills do not lose their grinding ability with time, this question should be address directly with us so we can in fact determine if you purchased a Grind Gourmet Original or a copy made of our mills. Thank you and have a great day.
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Empty out the salt and wash it out thouroughly, during the hot months the salt will get moist and not grind thru, best to just use a regular saltshaker with dried rice mixed in with the salt to absorb moisture and yu never have that problem
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There are no replaceable parts on this grinder - so when its over its over!
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I haven't run into that problem yet, but with a lifetime guarantee, I would get ahold of grind gourmet and have it replaced.
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I bought a Japanese ceramic salt grinder here on Amazon and it works great even with the wetness of this salt. It is called a Kyocera Ceramic Fine Mill.
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Try a coarser grind. If it's too fine, it will just clog up the holes in the portafilter. If that doesn't help, try flushing the brew head a few times and letting the portafilter basket soak in hot soapy water for a while. Something make just be gunked up. Should none of those remedies work, your best bet would be to contact the manufacturer.
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I have refilled mine but its not a refillable grinder, top snaps off with some force
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I had that problem, too. After spending all weekend tweaking around with the recipe that came with it, I finally got a good loaf when I cut the salt back by 1/4 tsp. Just make sure that you use Active Dry Yeast, and, NOT Quick Rising Yeast.
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I have owned my grinder since January 2014. I use it twice every day, at least 3 times a day on weekends. I have had no problems.Yours may be defective. Definitely call customer service and give them the opportunity to make it right.
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I only have the pepper grinder, but it has the best grind adjustment capability of any grinder I have seen. I would have to believe the salt grinder would be equally adjustable.
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ues a slightly damp paper towel and wipe down inside of grinder and around blade area. If blade area is still caked up use a toothbrush. The outside can be cleaned with damp cloth or paper towel.
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I don't have this product, but generally speaking salt grinders use a nylon grinding mechanism, since salt is corrosive to steel. Pepper and spice grinders usually have a stainless steel grinding mechanism.
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It sounds like you have your answer already, but it does struggle quite a bit and occasionally stops completely when grinding extremely course salt.
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When this happen to me I replaced them with these from Amazon. I dump out the grinds then rinse them very well after each use. This seems to help at least in my case. I have found that if you let the grinds sit in the filter until the next day it is much harder to get the filter clean.
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I would probably do that. I filled mine with salt from Vietnam, not oven-dried, and it was too soft for this grinder and kept getting stuck. I eventually mixed with sea salt before figuring out you need to oven dry.
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I'm not sure but it sounds as though the grinder gear may be gunked up. Do you remove and clean everything after each use? Try cleaning things as well as possible, especially the gear in bottom of the grinder. If that doesn't work I'm afraid I can't help. Good luck and happy java!
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Ours did the same thing. My husband had to re-vamp the grinder as it was rubbing. Our first time using it was a total mess too. We thought about returning it but my husband fixed it somehow but I could not tell you for sure what he did. He is a machine designer so he could see what the problem was.....
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Have you removed the bean hopper and then cleaned out the grinder and chute with your brushes? Sometimes you have to dig at the chute to get it fully cleaned out. If it's plugged though, it won't grind. Hope this helps :-). Cuisenart customer service certainly doesn't.
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I haven't tried mine with salt but it does do pepper with much more ease than prior auto pepper grinders I have had in the past. I would expect that it would work with salt...I have been meaning to buy a second one for that same purpose.
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In plug it then un mount it with quick disconnect check for jam use the tool supplied with the unit or a wooden spoon to free the grinding plates re mount and plug in if you don't have a plug be sure to cut power to the unit