Useful Kitchen Tip: Use a small pastry brush to clean seed residue from inside a coffee grinder

If you like to grind chia and/or basil seeds every day in your coffee grinder, one annoyance you may find is the residual ground seed that adheres to the inside of the grinder body and lid. Yes, you can use a finger to scrape off the residue from inside the grinder, and you can tap on the lid to make the excess residue fall off, but is that really the best way?

Today I went to a cooking supply store and found something that works great for this purpose: A small (.38 inches), round pastry brush.

I know that modern coffee grinders are probably designed for safety and difficult to trigger the blades while sticking one’s finger inside to scrape off residue, but why take a chance? Not only that, but the brush actually works much better than a finger and is more fun to use 🙂

Update: Because the bristles are so long they may be a little too soft. I trimmed the bristles on mine down about 1/2 inch which makes the brush a little firmer. Just be careful when trimming brush bristles. There is sort of an art to it since cutting them with scissors can leave a protruding margin. You have to cut them sort of like cutting hair, shaping the contour you want to have.