static electricity

Hello,

Now that I have your attention... I have a very serious problem... at home I use an electric coffee grinder (its one of those top loading italian Delongi brands). When it grinds the coffee beans it places a static charge on the coffee grounds and thus the grindings spew like spew-tum all over the place including the tabletop, the coffee drip filter machine, the WALLS!!! etc.

I find this most annoying but even I, the great, one true Zed, cannot come up with a solution to resolve the great static electricity problem.

I appreciate your responses, however besides the plethora of nonsense about opposible thumbs, hot water, monkeys, charging, etc... I would appreciate well thought out, valid and helpful advice.

Cheers

Zedman

Here are a few suggestions. Get a milk shake maker and switch to banana smoothies. Put a lid on the grinder. Spray all the coffee beans with anti-static before grinding them. Re-wire the grinder and earth it to the toaster (may or may not help, who knows?). While you're earthing it, try reversing the polarity and see if it runs better backwards. Buy a hand grinder - oh sorry, they look to much like an organ grinders box don't they! have you tried italian coffee beans seeing as it's an italian coffee grinder?

BTW - did you feel ripped off that there weren't actually '12 monkeys' in the movie of the same name?

Hooroo...

Buy a new coffee grinder. Mine does not do that ;)

Get on to the distributors and scream! This is obviously a defective product or a defective design.
If they won't or can't do anything then get on to the appropriate consumer protection group. The basis for complaint is "fails to perform intended usage in an appropriate manner". That is, "it chucks the bloody coffee everywhere".

Why don't you get rid of your drip filter machine and get one of these? No grinding required. Much, much better coffee, consistantly.

http://www.nespresso.com/precom/sima..._748_3_xl1.jpg

It takes coffee pods like these.

http://www.nespresso.com/precom/img0404/caps_02_big.gif

Get yourself one of those lovely old Turkish brass hand powered grinders....no static and after a few months youll have Gorilla sized biceps.

Seriously though if I want a really good cup of coffee I ditch the electric grinder and get turning with the hand grinder.

Cheers Martin (Coffee addict)

Drink tea.

Chr*st.....that looks like something off the space shuttle. Technology gone crazy.....time to get back to basics. Time for you to become a coffee dark sider.

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Originally Posted by Zed

I would appreciate well thought out, valid and helpful advice.

Zedman

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I here :confused:
I think you've just found the definition of supreme optimism :D

I used to use one of those italian stove top jobbies. I resisted going to a home coffee machine, until I tried one of these at Myre one day. The coffee is just so good. Better than 90% of cafes out there. The pods are about twice the price of buying and grinding your own but it's always fresh, no mess and did I mention how good the coffee was?

Zed,

Sorry mate – all questions.

Has this always happened or has it recently started? Maybe the unit is new?

Is the body of the unit and the container for the ground coffee plastic?

Any chance of placing the ground coffee in a conductive container perhaps earthed?

Perhaps the air is too dry in the room, any chance of increasing the humidity?

What about hooking up a 4" pipe from your DC. :D

Actually, is it a proper grinder or is it one of those ones with a stainless steel blade that spins around like a blender and chops the beans up? I searched high and low for a proper grinder and finally found one. It makes a much nicer cup than those choppy ones.

http://www.sendfunny.com/pages/coffeeIV.htm

Try chucking some 'Al' foil in with the beans to help discharge the static...
or move to a more humid climate.... :D