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We use one of those rotary blade grinders to grind our coffee in the morning. As those of you who use these type of machines, you know that when you open the lid, coffee dust goes flying everywhere.
I have found something that prevents this. Use wax paper!
Fill your coffee grinder as usual, then grind. Then before opening it, put the grinder on a piece of wax paper. Open the top and Voila! No coffee dust flying out. Then to clean the top, just tap it on the wax paper and in one tap all the coffee stuck inside will come out on the wax paper. Now pour your fresh ground beans on the wax paper, fold in half and it makes a handy pour spout to put your ground coffee in your machine.
When done, tap the grinder on the wax paper once, and it will be as clean as new!

I use this on our Sunbeam C-30 as that machine has a rather small opening on the top. This solves the problem.
 
So placing the entire grinder on a sheet of waxed paper, which I presume means having the grinder base being the part that makes contact with the paper, somehow transfers into the grinding chamber to eliminate the static? How does that happen? It makes as much sense as the various cures for hic-ups.

Paging Mr. Marler . . .
 
With a blade grinder

my trick is to invert and grind the last few seconds upside down. that way the blades flatten the coffee into the lid so when you open it nothing comes out the crack. also the blades and grinds scour the bottom under the blades so you dont' get wasted grounds under sharp blades that have to be dug out or they will stale up the next batch.
 
When I used that kind of grinder, I did the upside down trick. Now, I have a self-grinding coffee maker. With my kitchen being close to my bedroom, it doubles as an alarm clock.
 
If you have coffee dust, you're grinding too long. Overgrinding makes the coffee bitter. Just a few short bursts is all it takes.
 
I think the wax paper does kill any static that may be on the coffee grinder. Just try it and see for yourself. But the most important part is removing ALL of the ground coffee from the lid and the grinder itself when turned upside down and tapped on the wax paper.
Usually there is a considerable amount of coffee still inside the grinder and the lid after I've ground it. The wax paper eliminates this.
 
Yeah, I used to do all of those upside down things and rapping the side of the grinder to make sure it all went into the lid, but there would always, always be powdery remains stuck to the bottom of the grinding chamber. I'd have to scrape those out every time I used it. Having a grind-and-brew machine has eliminated this ritual for me. Just an occassional brushing out of the chute is all I have to do now, but as a lot of you have probably read here, the reliability of the Cusinart burr grind system hasn't been the best. But the coffee sure tastes good.
 
I have a GE rotary grinder which works fine. I just invert it and tap it on the counter top before opening (upside down of course). Maybe turning it upside down right before the cycle ends might help with the coffee stuck to the bottom of the grinding chamber. I grind it coarse for Perc (for use in a French Press)
 

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