Did I just ruin my new food processor?

Try washing it out with vinegar to take out the flavor of the coffee

I was going to say vinegar also. If you don’t have any you can try lemon juice.

How would this ruin the device? Wash it a few tmes and it will gradually go away.

I was watching a show on Food Network this morning and the host was saying how you should have a separate grinder for coffee than for everything else. So it got me thinking…

Hopefully it will be okay! Thanks guys!

Plastic absorbs odors. If your grinding jar is plastic, it may absorb the coffee smell. If you don’t have a glass grinder jar, you might want to get one, especially for the stinky stuff. And don’t let the stinky stuff sit in the jar any longer than it has to.

The food processor bowl is made of polycarbonate. Plastics form bonds with oils, and coffee is loaded with aromatic oils. These are now clinging viciously to the interior surface of the bowl.

You need to break that bond between the polycarbonate and the oil. As an experiment, I took a piece of polycarbonate and thoroughly rubbed ground coffee into it. Predictably, after rinsing and drying it still smelled strongly of coffee.

Then I rubbed again and tried spraying the area with Fantastic (a strong degreaser), wipe with a paper towel, then rinsed. The coffee smell was much weaker, but still detectible.

I rubbed again and applied a generous dose of Windex, scrubbed well with a paper towel, rinsed and dried. This time the coffee smell is only barely detectible. If I didn’t know what I was looking for, I wouldn’t have noticed it.

So I’d give it a good drenching in Windex, wipe it down thoroughly with a Windex-soaked paper towel, then rinse it and run it again through the dishwasher for good measure.

You could try pouring hot water in it to open the pores in the plastic.

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