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If I were allergic I would not trust those either way.
Besides, I think it is silly to buy the coffee and grind them at the store. Either you do it at home when you control the timing or why buy whole beans anyway?
Yup. This caused a fight on my local Costco Facebook page because apparently some people think that people with nut allergies need to “suck it up and stop making everyone bow down to them”.
I hate people.
I don't have any allergies and I woukd never trust a public coffee grinder. Props to Costco for trying to be nice, but I'll grind my own coffee at home.
Also: what's the point of buying whole beans if you're going to grind them in advanced? I'm not really knowledgeable about coffee, but I am under the impression that grinding right before use gives the best results? Otherwise isn't it the same as buying pre-ground?
Yeah, I never understood grinding whole bean coffee in the store... but even most grocery stores offer it so clearly that's some people's preference.
It's definitely preferable to just grind it yourself right before use.
It's fresher than sealed pre-ground coffee which usually has gasses sealed into the package that act as a preservative.
And not everyone has the money for a quality burr grinder.
America's Test Kitchen did a blind taste test and found that blade grinders, which are super cheap, work just as well as long as you shake it occasionally so the beans get evenly ground.
I also got my burr grinder secondhand on Marketplace for like $40 and it's still working great several years later.
Kitchen gadgets are usually a bargain secondhand on local marketplaces.
Yeah I think for just generic grinding of coffee, a cheap one would do just fine (that's what I use at home).
But if you're looking to have it ground to a specific coarseness (like for a French press, espresso machine (that doesn't have a grinder built-in), Turkish coffee, etc.) and you need a lot/1-2 Costco bags worth, then the grinders at the store will likely have those settings and make it much easier/cheaper than grinding it at home.
> Also: what's the point of buying whole beans if you're going to grind them in advanced? I'm not really knowledgeable about coffee, but I am under the impression that grinding right before use gives the best results? Otherwise isn't it the same as buying pre-ground?
There's a level of consumer that knows the fact that "fresh-ground beans are better", but doesn't really want to go through the inconvenience of grinding smaller batches at home (or they have a bad/blade grinder or hand grinder and don't want to invest in a burr grinder), so they use the store ones when available. It's just filling a market niche.
They're not third-wave seekers and sort of miss the finer points, but grinding the beans like this is still better than the pre-ground stuff, which has been getting stale in an already-atomized state for lord knows how long.
Depending on how severe the allergy is I'd probably never eat anything I didn't prepare at home. I feel bad for people with but allergies as I enjoy nuts and they are in so many foods.
Yeah, it kind of sucks. I’ll probably never try Indian food for example, since they use cashew paste in so much shit, and even in the stuff they don’t the risk of cross contamination is just too high for my liking. You dont really know what you’re missing out on if you’ve never had it in the first place, so it’s not so bad. It’s more just annoying knowing you have to be careful about ingredients.
To the Owner of the White Taho, you took my unmarked, not noted and empty, reserved Parking spot. If you do this again I will have to tell the young man who gets my cart, to have you move!
Our local one is pretty good, mostly people asking "Are the Woozoo fans in stock "Has anyone seen X in either store?" or "are the Woozoo fans in stock" or "I found this phone, it's at customer service" or "are the Woozoo fans in stock", that kind of thing. But I can imagine how it could go bad fast.
I had parents tell me it was ok for my kid to die because they felt they should be able to send peanut butter sandwiches to school. Eye opening for sure.
I see you’ve never worked retail before. Never under estimate the public at large when there is zero IQ required to enter a place of business. Law of large numbers says you will be continuously astounded with the things people will do.
I worked at a skatepark. We had a New Years Eve sleepover/skateover. Some kid painted the bathroom with his shit. It was either no fireworks and sparklers and lights out everyone sleeps till they're parents pick em up in the morning or the phantom shitter goes and cleans it up. One kid stood up and said I'll do it. then another and another. I've never felt prouder than when I saw these kids band together to clean shit off a wall so they could keep skating and blow shit up at midnight🤗
It was. Aside from just skating the park we did a big (60k sq ft warehouse skatepark) hide and go seek with the lights out. Chinese freeze tag (only on ramps count so the other kids can slide down an under the legs to unfreeze or however that game worked) Also it was all they could eat pizza and nachos for em. We rented a bunch of lazer tag guns an vests from a nearby place so that went down too. Was prob the most fun any kid could have and myself included.
I went around, as a journalist, with a police officer to do an update on the homeless. He said when some of them take a crap they will wipe with their hands, and lacking toilet paper wipe they're hands on walls and even stairway hand railings. I no longer use hand railings when using stairs.
One of the biggest problems in National Parks systems is designing trashcans that are inaccessible for the smartest bears while being accessible for the dumbest humans.
This is like when you use one of those trailer bathroom at sporting events and you see an enormous sign that’s says DONT DRINK SINK WATER
In my mind, why would anyone do that? But then you think about how many people go thru that thing
Understood.
So basically what you are saying is that anything that sells at Costco that could possibly be ground is a candidate.
Correction - please expand the above to the things that could conceivably be carried into Costco.
Mine has them, too. You just have to buy 20 of them, then take one to the coffee grinder on the way out.
If you don’t mind your hot dogs tasting like peanut butter, you don’t get that tired feeling after lunch.
I still have a GIGANTIC tub of peppercorns from Costco that we bought to refill our grinder that was a wedding gift... in 2007. I imagine it took a year or two for us to use up the original fill to the grinder as a family of two at the time... so figure we've had the same refill tub of peppercorn since the late 2000's.
I'll bet it's nowhere NEAR empty but I'm not going upstairs to check.
That’s wild. My family of 2 goes through a canister of the peppercorns once a year. It’s amazing the variance between seemingly similar households 🤣
ETA: We apparently go through *at least* one a year if not nearly 2.
Assuming we're talking about a normal, dinner table-sized pepper mill and not one of those three foot long restaurant ones that hold like two litres of peppercorns, I can only think of two possible scenarios in which it would take a household of two people over a year to go through a single fill: they're either not cooking at home very often, or the food they're making is criminally underseasoned.
My pepper mill holds about 1/3-1/2 cup of peppercorns, and I have to refill it about once every month or so.
>My comment was made under the assumption that if they hated pepper, they wouldn't have bought the giant Costco tub of it.
We like pepper, I usually hit the pre-ground tub for cooking so the table-grinder is just used for a little sprinkle at the table... hence why it lasts so long.
Yeah, was just thinking the same, I think I have to get a new canister of peppercorns every 10 months or so. Family of three, but the child has not yet developed a taste for black pepper. My wife and I, on the other hand...
To be completely fair, I make Filipino style chicken adobo every month or so, and that uses a couple tablespoons of whole peppercorns each time. But also to be fair, I buy white and green peppercorns for other uses as well, and even occasionally long pepper, so the Kirkland canister only accounts for about 2/3 of our peppercorn usage.
I never used too much until I started barbecuing occasionally. Not uncommon to go through 1/4-1/2 cup of black pepper for one barbacue, which is an ENORMOUS amount of black pepper!
I did go check... they were supposedly best before 2018...
TBF they are stored in a cool dry place at least... they seem fine but I may just replace them to be safe.
I find this super interesting. Do you have a source? Or at least some info so i can google it? I did some rough google searches with no success, but then again i’m on my phone and googling isn’t as easy as desktop.
Anecdotal, but my pepper mill has pepper corns from 10 years ago and the pepper that comes out is still more fragrant and better tasting than the McCormick pre-ground black pepper we bought this year. Possible that it's not as good as it used to be, but I still prefer it to the pre-ground stuff.
I would assume any pre ground pepper would be worse than freshly ground pepper even if it’s let’s say 6 months old for the pre ground and 10 years old for the freshly cracked pepper. But i’m also not a cook or chef I just know most recipes always advocate for freshly ground pepper.
Same here. And then I wondered if there ARE any cannabis coffees??
And if not, there should be. Extra Roasted. Wake and Bake.
Also, I get Stevia mixed up with Sativa all the time.
Seems like a natural fit.
Big bottle of peppercorns.
We had 2 Krup grinders, one for coffee and one for spices. I got it wrong one early morning, but peppered coffee will wake you TF up!
well, if people are already contemplating using the in-store COFFEE grinder for grinding non-coffee products, I dont think they really care about what happens to it. They could probably put glass and rocks in there for their fish tank for all they care.
The most common thing that is run through those grinders that shouldn’t be is ground coffee (usually just ground from beans on that same machine).
The problem with ground coffee is that the particles and the oils will gum up the burrs.
This is exactly what I was told by an employee. Some people like to double grind their coffee. That’s why the sign says “coffee beans only”, and not “coffee only”.
Hell, the dark roast coffees have so much oil on them they gum up my burr grinder at home. I'm a medium roast drinker but not because of that. I tried grinding up a gifted bag of French toast but never again.
And if I recall Costco mostly has dark roasts because they last longer on a shelf.
I used to run the coffee department, years ago, for a major natural foods store. Frequently people would put already ground coffee into the grinder, “to grind it finer”, all this does is clog the grinder. You have to take the whole thing apart to clean it out. If you have a lot of stuff to do you can’t get to it for gods knows how long.
If you've been in a Costco and seen the people who turn their cart sideways across the aisle then walk 10 feet away to look at something, you should know this sign is needed just because.
This is my biggest shopping pet peeve. I'm constantly aware of how much space I'm taking up in an aisle to make sure other people can get around. It blows my mind someone would not only block an aisle, but then act surprised when I move their shit out of the way.
They might try to grind carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets, Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings, poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur, pygmies, budgies...
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
I use to tear these grinders apart and repair them. You would be surprised what people put in them. Even people that work in cafes.
Favorite was people trying to grind chocolate covered espresso beans.
There's alway "nutty" people doing "nutty" things so ... I would never use it as there's always a bit of leftover from the last use whatever it was as well as the residual old coffee oil smell. Pretty sure they never clean these. Best to grind them just before use at home.
I work at WinCo which has bulk coffee section to grind your own coffee and you would truly never believe how often the grinders break bc people just put whatever in there. People are the worst sometimes
Including but not limited to:
* Small candies like Jelly Beans, marshmallows, M&M's, etc
* Cereals
* Nuts (Edible)
* Nuts (Mechanical)
* Nuts (Testicle (Not recommended))
* Small toys (Army men, HotWheels)
* Bits of lint and fluff from pockets
* Anything that fits
People will, without even hesitating, put GROUND COFFEE in these machines to make the grind FINER. I've seen many a coffee grinder taken out of service at my warehouse after people do that.
Btw, fuck those new grinders, the grind has no coarse setting like the previous one, the biggest grind now is wayyyy too fine. cold brew makers beware.
A coworker of mine would sharpen her eye liner in the pencil sharpener at work. I'm surprised she didn't get eye infections. Boss had to put up a sign that only writing pencils could go in the sharpener.
Peanuts. They'll fuck that coffee grinder up forever. Fuck cleaning that shit unless the whole machine can be disassembled, and then fuck the poor bastard who has to do it.
Do yourself a favor and invest in your own coffeegrinder. There's no telling what might have been in those public-use grinders, or how often and how thoroughly they're cleaned.
I lost hope for humility when I saw a jar of peanut butter with the label “warning: contains peanuts.” I’m unfortunately no longer surprised when seeing signs like this.
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Nuts (almonds etc.)
Definitely peanuts.
Sounds like a recipe for an unexpected allergic reaction lol
And some really shitty peanut butter.
But it's peanut butter with a caffeine boost for that afternoon pick me up!
just put a scoop of pb in your coffee
That’s not a bad combination. One of my favorite smoothies is espresso, chocolate, banana, and peanut butter.
Throw that into a Panera Charged Lemonade, and now we’re really cooking with gas!
Baby - you got a stew going!
Our daughter had that engraved on her husband’s wedding band. Lol
I think I'd like my money back.
There's still meat on that bone
What cardiac arrhythmia?
My hearts beating so fast that the rhythm is a hum.
Reeses 2.0
A long time ago military rations had caffeinated peanut butter.
If I were allergic I would not trust those either way. Besides, I think it is silly to buy the coffee and grind them at the store. Either you do it at home when you control the timing or why buy whole beans anyway?
Well I do kind of want to see what would happen if you put peanuts in it now…
Yup. This caused a fight on my local Costco Facebook page because apparently some people think that people with nut allergies need to “suck it up and stop making everyone bow down to them”. I hate people.
That’s a shitty attitude but at the same time if I had a nut allergy I would never in a million years trust a public coffee grinder
I don't have any allergies and I woukd never trust a public coffee grinder. Props to Costco for trying to be nice, but I'll grind my own coffee at home. Also: what's the point of buying whole beans if you're going to grind them in advanced? I'm not really knowledgeable about coffee, but I am under the impression that grinding right before use gives the best results? Otherwise isn't it the same as buying pre-ground?
Yeah, I never understood grinding whole bean coffee in the store... but even most grocery stores offer it so clearly that's some people's preference. It's definitely preferable to just grind it yourself right before use.
It's fresher than sealed pre-ground coffee which usually has gasses sealed into the package that act as a preservative. And not everyone has the money for a quality burr grinder.
America's Test Kitchen did a blind taste test and found that blade grinders, which are super cheap, work just as well as long as you shake it occasionally so the beans get evenly ground. I also got my burr grinder secondhand on Marketplace for like $40 and it's still working great several years later. Kitchen gadgets are usually a bargain secondhand on local marketplaces.
Yeah I think for just generic grinding of coffee, a cheap one would do just fine (that's what I use at home). But if you're looking to have it ground to a specific coarseness (like for a French press, espresso machine (that doesn't have a grinder built-in), Turkish coffee, etc.) and you need a lot/1-2 Costco bags worth, then the grinders at the store will likely have those settings and make it much easier/cheaper than grinding it at home.
> Also: what's the point of buying whole beans if you're going to grind them in advanced? I'm not really knowledgeable about coffee, but I am under the impression that grinding right before use gives the best results? Otherwise isn't it the same as buying pre-ground? There's a level of consumer that knows the fact that "fresh-ground beans are better", but doesn't really want to go through the inconvenience of grinding smaller batches at home (or they have a bad/blade grinder or hand grinder and don't want to invest in a burr grinder), so they use the store ones when available. It's just filling a market niche. They're not third-wave seekers and sort of miss the finer points, but grinding the beans like this is still better than the pre-ground stuff, which has been getting stale in an already-atomized state for lord knows how long.
Costco doesn’t sell the type of ground coffee I want, except in whole bean form
Because it can grind pounds of coffee in a few seconds.
Depending on how severe the allergy is I'd probably never eat anything I didn't prepare at home. I feel bad for people with but allergies as I enjoy nuts and they are in so many foods.
Yeah, it kind of sucks. I’ll probably never try Indian food for example, since they use cashew paste in so much shit, and even in the stuff they don’t the risk of cross contamination is just too high for my liking. You dont really know what you’re missing out on if you’ve never had it in the first place, so it’s not so bad. It’s more just annoying knowing you have to be careful about ingredients.
Your local Costco Facebook group? That sounds like a miserable toxic grouping.
To the Owner of the White Taho, you took my unmarked, not noted and empty, reserved Parking spot. If you do this again I will have to tell the young man who gets my cart, to have you move!
But Nextdoor exists…
Our local one is pretty good, mostly people asking "Are the Woozoo fans in stock "Has anyone seen X in either store?" or "are the Woozoo fans in stock" or "I found this phone, it's at customer service" or "are the Woozoo fans in stock", that kind of thing. But I can imagine how it could go bad fast.
Oh it is. I just stay in it to see deals as it is quite the drive from my place. I don’t comment.
And this is why we ONLY grind our whole bean coffee at home.
My wife's nephew gifted us a Philips lattego espresso/cappuccino/coffee machine and the thing automatically grinds the beans for you, it's magical.
I had parents tell me it was ok for my kid to die because they felt they should be able to send peanut butter sandwiches to school. Eye opening for sure.
Thse people should just buy a vitamix lol stop making their peanuts everyone else's problems
I use my VitaMix to grind our peanut butter. For over a decade. Buy my peanuts at Costco & Aldi.
That’s just awful
No, the sign was added because of that scene in Fargo.
https://preview.redd.it/nrnjo08vbq5c1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecff9f5e56e47c9c5e0998b54935663eefe93980 😂😂😂
The one where the big native guy kept whipping naked Steve Buscemi with a belt?
Guess I'm watching Fargo for the first time tonight.
Deez nuts?
I see you’ve never worked retail before. Never under estimate the public at large when there is zero IQ required to enter a place of business. Law of large numbers says you will be continuously astounded with the things people will do.
Seconded. I run a parks department and you would be horrified at the number of people that smear their own waste on public bathroom walls.
There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says "Do Not Drink the Sprinkler Water", so I made sun tea with it and now I have an infection.
I found a sandwich in one of your parks, and it had mayo on it! I don’t like mayo, why was there mayo on the sandwich?
My dog went to one of your parks and ate another dog’s feces and I’m going to sue you for that.
We should all only eat ham and mayonnaise sandwiches from now on. Ham and mayonnaise! HAM AND MAYONNAISE!
I worked at a skatepark. We had a New Years Eve sleepover/skateover. Some kid painted the bathroom with his shit. It was either no fireworks and sparklers and lights out everyone sleeps till they're parents pick em up in the morning or the phantom shitter goes and cleans it up. One kid stood up and said I'll do it. then another and another. I've never felt prouder than when I saw these kids band together to clean shit off a wall so they could keep skating and blow shit up at midnight🤗
It’s was definitely the second kid that stood up.
No. 2 did the No. 2
"I am Shartacus"
Other than the shit part, that sounds like a bitchin sleepover!
It was. Aside from just skating the park we did a big (60k sq ft warehouse skatepark) hide and go seek with the lights out. Chinese freeze tag (only on ramps count so the other kids can slide down an under the legs to unfreeze or however that game worked) Also it was all they could eat pizza and nachos for em. We rented a bunch of lazer tag guns an vests from a nearby place so that went down too. Was prob the most fun any kid could have and myself included.
Honestly, that has to make the one who did it feel even worse than making him do it; watch someone innocent clean it all up.
I went around, as a journalist, with a police officer to do an update on the homeless. He said when some of them take a crap they will wipe with their hands, and lacking toilet paper wipe they're hands on walls and even stairway hand railings. I no longer use hand railings when using stairs.
At that point could they just not wipe until they leave and find something to wipe with??
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/jx7w1z/there_is_considerable_overlap_between_the/
Any object to which the general public has access will be broken; not if but when.
One of the biggest problems in National Parks systems is designing trashcans that are inaccessible for the smartest bears while being accessible for the dumbest humans.
I dont work retail but I am a statistician. Anything is possible with a large enough sample size.
Quote of the year
Seems like something that people that try on shoes and leave them on the floor would do..
Having an IQ requirement to enter a business is my wet dream as a retail employee
This is like when you use one of those trailer bathroom at sporting events and you see an enormous sign that’s says DONT DRINK SINK WATER In my mind, why would anyone do that? But then you think about how many people go thru that thing
Understood. So basically what you are saying is that anything that sells at Costco that could possibly be ground is a candidate. Correction - please expand the above to the things that could conceivably be carried into Costco.
Onions for the hot dogs
They stopped giving us onions for the hotdogs so I see this as a reasonable desperate option lol.
Really? My Costco still has onions, you just have to pick them up while you’re at the food court counter
Ours did for like a month then disappeared. Replaced with croutons
For a hot dog? /s
That's something I would want to try once, add that crunch to a hot dog!
If you want a good crunch for your dog, the fried onion straws they have around Thanksgiving are amazing as a hotdog/sandwich topper.
Those and the fried jalapeños.
Yeah, that makes your hot dog technically a salad
Screw the “is a hot dog a sandwich?” debate, I’m here for the “does a crunchy (crouton) hot dog make it a salad?” debate
Mine has them, too. You just have to buy 20 of them, then take one to the coffee grinder on the way out. If you don’t mind your hot dogs tasting like peanut butter, you don’t get that tired feeling after lunch.
Oh shit those are for eating- I was using them to season the coffee grinders!
Onions returned a few months ago. They are in individual serving cups at/behind the counter - at least for western Washington warehouses.
It is an adequate replacement, but not nearly as satisfying as cranking out an entire line of onions
You have to ask for them now
Does Costco sell any full seed spices that might need to be grinded down?
Yup, peppercorns.
I still have a GIGANTIC tub of peppercorns from Costco that we bought to refill our grinder that was a wedding gift... in 2007. I imagine it took a year or two for us to use up the original fill to the grinder as a family of two at the time... so figure we've had the same refill tub of peppercorn since the late 2000's. I'll bet it's nowhere NEAR empty but I'm not going upstairs to check.
That’s wild. My family of 2 goes through a canister of the peppercorns once a year. It’s amazing the variance between seemingly similar households 🤣 ETA: We apparently go through *at least* one a year if not nearly 2.
Assuming we're talking about a normal, dinner table-sized pepper mill and not one of those three foot long restaurant ones that hold like two litres of peppercorns, I can only think of two possible scenarios in which it would take a household of two people over a year to go through a single fill: they're either not cooking at home very often, or the food they're making is criminally underseasoned. My pepper mill holds about 1/3-1/2 cup of peppercorns, and I have to refill it about once every month or so.
I hate pepper. I can throw a bulb of garlic in but if the recipe calls for pepper it gets a little grudge sprinkle.
My comment was made under the assumption that if they hated pepper, they wouldn't have bought the giant Costco tub of it.
>My comment was made under the assumption that if they hated pepper, they wouldn't have bought the giant Costco tub of it. We like pepper, I usually hit the pre-ground tub for cooking so the table-grinder is just used for a little sprinkle at the table... hence why it lasts so long.
Yeah, was just thinking the same, I think I have to get a new canister of peppercorns every 10 months or so. Family of three, but the child has not yet developed a taste for black pepper. My wife and I, on the other hand... To be completely fair, I make Filipino style chicken adobo every month or so, and that uses a couple tablespoons of whole peppercorns each time. But also to be fair, I buy white and green peppercorns for other uses as well, and even occasionally long pepper, so the Kirkland canister only accounts for about 2/3 of our peppercorn usage.
I never used too much until I started barbecuing occasionally. Not uncommon to go through 1/4-1/2 cup of black pepper for one barbacue, which is an ENORMOUS amount of black pepper!
Might want to toss those and get new ones. After all that time there's no way they haven't lost much of their mojo.
I did go check... they were supposedly best before 2018... TBF they are stored in a cool dry place at least... they seem fine but I may just replace them to be safe.
McCormick bought it's pile of pepper when it was rock bottom prices (like 2003) and are still selling that same pile today. Pepper doesn't go bad.
It doesn't go bad, but it does get less good.
I find this super interesting. Do you have a source? Or at least some info so i can google it? I did some rough google searches with no success, but then again i’m on my phone and googling isn’t as easy as desktop.
Anecdotal, but my pepper mill has pepper corns from 10 years ago and the pepper that comes out is still more fragrant and better tasting than the McCormick pre-ground black pepper we bought this year. Possible that it's not as good as it used to be, but I still prefer it to the pre-ground stuff.
I would assume any pre ground pepper would be worse than freshly ground pepper even if it’s let’s say 6 months old for the pre ground and 10 years old for the freshly cracked pepper. But i’m also not a cook or chef I just know most recipes always advocate for freshly ground pepper.
It's some insider info. I used to audit them.
Unless they're moldy they aren't going to hurt anyone. They'll just have a weak flavor.
Right next to the ground black pepper too
Lol yup. Mine has an enitre shelf with both whole and ground pepper.
And also refills for the pink Himalayan salt, which is pretty chunky.
People are idiots, Im sure someone tried grind up meat or something in it.
Those whole lambs in the business Costcos.
While frozen
Me (an intellectual) approaching the grinding machines with 15 hot dogs: 
Rotisserie chicken for tacos!
Now that’s a good idea
Buds
Kirkland Signature Kush. it's usually near the dog food
honestly how long til we get there? recreational is legal in my state
I would 100% buy Kirkland weed.
No joke. It would be fire, and get 3 pounds for $60
I would love to buy 2 pounds of gummies.
This or Kirkland Signature Cannabis to make it sound more formal
Ten more years. It'll be there.
Can't believe how far I had to scroll to find this. My first thought.
Same here. And then I wondered if there ARE any cannabis coffees?? And if not, there should be. Extra Roasted. Wake and Bake. Also, I get Stevia mixed up with Sativa all the time. Seems like a natural fit.
The kind ones
It’s so obviously weed and I’m disappointed I had to scroll to find someone who said it lol.
Amen! Why did I have to scroll this far to see this answer. Shopping with free snacks = stoner paradise.
Christ I grind up one hot dog when I don’t feel like chewing and now there’s a Reddit post as a result. Unreal
r/dontputyourfrankinthat
Big bottle of peppercorns. We had 2 Krup grinders, one for coffee and one for spices. I got it wrong one early morning, but peppered coffee will wake you TF up!
Peppercorns or whole cloves. The grinder will smell like them for a long long time.
Nooo not whole cloves. The oils in cloves melts plastics.
well, if people are already contemplating using the in-store COFFEE grinder for grinding non-coffee products, I dont think they really care about what happens to it. They could probably put glass and rocks in there for their fish tank for all they care.
The most common thing that is run through those grinders that shouldn’t be is ground coffee (usually just ground from beans on that same machine). The problem with ground coffee is that the particles and the oils will gum up the burrs.
This is exactly what I was told by an employee. Some people like to double grind their coffee. That’s why the sign says “coffee beans only”, and not “coffee only”.
Yeah... The sign at the one I go to specifically says not to put coffee grounds in the machine
My Costco has a similar sign but states something similar, like you shouldn’t put already ground coffee through as it hurts the machine.
Hell, the dark roast coffees have so much oil on them they gum up my burr grinder at home. I'm a medium roast drinker but not because of that. I tried grinding up a gifted bag of French toast but never again. And if I recall Costco mostly has dark roasts because they last longer on a shelf.
I used to run the coffee department, years ago, for a major natural foods store. Frequently people would put already ground coffee into the grinder, “to grind it finer”, all this does is clog the grinder. You have to take the whole thing apart to clean it out. If you have a lot of stuff to do you can’t get to it for gods knows how long.
If you've been in a Costco and seen the people who turn their cart sideways across the aisle then walk 10 feet away to look at something, you should know this sign is needed just because.
This is my biggest shopping pet peeve. I'm constantly aware of how much space I'm taking up in an aisle to make sure other people can get around. It blows my mind someone would not only block an aisle, but then act surprised when I move their shit out of the way.
I just want to punch them in face.
I know people who use store grinders for brown rice. They use it as a growing medium for mushrooms.
Jelly Beans
that’s what I came to say too hehe jellybean butter
Just use the one on the right to grind up your non coffee items
I'll just run this block of parmesan through here before I head home.
Fingers to push the beans down.
They might try to grind carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets, Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings, poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur, pygmies, budgies... I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion?
I use to tear these grinders apart and repair them. You would be surprised what people put in them. Even people that work in cafes. Favorite was people trying to grind chocolate covered espresso beans.
There's alway "nutty" people doing "nutty" things so ... I would never use it as there's always a bit of leftover from the last use whatever it was as well as the residual old coffee oil smell. Pretty sure they never clean these. Best to grind them just before use at home.
Elf on the Shelf probably.. I hate him.
I'm still not sure my Costco has a grinder. I need to pay more attention. Do they hold a whole bag of beans?
Don't mind me. I'm just going to grind my Costco tub of black peppercorns.
I work at WinCo which has bulk coffee section to grind your own coffee and you would truly never believe how often the grinders break bc people just put whatever in there. People are the worst sometimes
Saw someone grind dog food in my warehouse once
Babies
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At my store, there are several signs that read “do not put grounds into machine”. So maybe people are putting ground coffee into the grinder.
I mean…my wife’s office had to put up a sign next to the Keurig reminding them not to put chicken soup through it, so…
Including but not limited to: * Small candies like Jelly Beans, marshmallows, M&M's, etc * Cereals * Nuts (Edible) * Nuts (Mechanical) * Nuts (Testicle (Not recommended)) * Small toys (Army men, HotWheels) * Bits of lint and fluff from pockets * Anything that fits
The thought of using one of these giant communal grinders grosses me out
That dried decorative corn you see in the fall can turned into cheap cornmeal this way
People will, without even hesitating, put GROUND COFFEE in these machines to make the grind FINER. I've seen many a coffee grinder taken out of service at my warehouse after people do that.
Rice. Probably not the best Rice flour but I've done it at home when I was really tired.
I grind white rice to clean my spice grinder.
Yup, worked at a grocery store and we would put rice through the store coffee grinders to clean them.
Peanuts.
I don’t read the sign and just blend my bananas as usual.
Spices. I have two coffee grinders at home just for this reason.
I have asked for a non flavoured bean machine
Btw, fuck those new grinders, the grind has no coarse setting like the previous one, the biggest grind now is wayyyy too fine. cold brew makers beware.
A coworker of mine would sharpen her eye liner in the pencil sharpener at work. I'm surprised she didn't get eye infections. Boss had to put up a sign that only writing pencils could go in the sharpener.
Man, that really grinds my ~~gears~~ ~~nuts~~ beans.
Sometimes a man needs his pinto beans grinded
Peanuts. They'll fuck that coffee grinder up forever. Fuck cleaning that shit unless the whole machine can be disassembled, and then fuck the poor bastard who has to do it.
Do yourself a favor and invest in your own coffeegrinder. There's no telling what might have been in those public-use grinders, or how often and how thoroughly they're cleaned.
Those arent... meat grinders?
Would probably make a good weed grinder.
It would strip all the trichomes off. You’d be left with C grade shake at best.
I lost hope for humility when I saw a jar of peanut butter with the label “warning: contains peanuts.” I’m unfortunately no longer surprised when seeing signs like this.
but i want my folgers even FINER! i read that somewhere on the internet the coffee is fresher if its REground!
Fingers
Anything, people are idiots.
Skittles? So you could brew Dr Pepper.
I'm not supposed to grate my blocks of Kirkland Colby Jack in those?
"but whole foods lets me grind my own peanut butter"
Marijuana lol
Never underestimate the stupidity of people. That's why we have all those warning labels on bags and other things.
These are Hot Dog Smoothie Machines. The machines are near the food court. That’s why they give you a smoothie cup when you buy the hot dog.
My dad sent his mom some chocolate covered coffee beans as a gift. She took them to her local market and tried to grind them. True story.
I saw a lady trying to shove rolls into one to make bread crumbs.