Greetings,
For Father’s Day many years ago (maybe 6 or 7) I received a coffee grinder. It is a really nice quality KitchenAid Model BCG100ER1 and has worked great lo these many years despite being used every other day. The grinder basically works like this…
The base has two little buttons (circled in yellow above) that need to be pressed at the same time to make the grinder work. The plastic top has two little bumps (circled in red above) build in so that when you put the top onto the base and press down, the buttons are pressed. This is all fine and dandy until one of the bumps on the plastic top breaks and then we have problems. If I were a betting man, I would have bet on this being the part that broke first. Like I said, we have had it for many years so we had a good run.
Not wanting to run out and spend the $60 or so a new model would cost I thought out it and decided to make it work without the cap. I tried several techniques that worked but had the undesirable effect of coffee being all over the counter (my clothes, the floor, etc). Ultimately I used a technique best demonstrated by the picture below…
I solved the “coffee all over the counter” problem by using the plastic top (only up side down) and steadying it with my chin. To depress the buttons I use 2 spoons. The wife was “kind” enough to snap this picture. She did drink the coffee though that this grinding produced.
Jon
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