Our coffee grinder, the heart of our espresso making system, spontaneously went up in flames this morning. Kay quickly covered it with a fire blanket and it was brought out into the garden and hosed down. Just to be sure, Kay also emptied the fire extinguisher on it.
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| The grinder minus the hopper lying on its side in the garden. |
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| The grinder drenched in fire extinguishing foam. |
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| The view from the bottom of the blackened motor. |
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| The hopper |
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| Base of the hopper melted. |
It was lucky for us that Kay happened to return to the kitchen to answer the oven alarm that went for something else she was doing.
The grinder had been playing up for a while. We guessed that it had overheated after the last grind and coffee grounds remaining in the machine self-ignited.
Amazingly, the twenty year-old fire extinguisher still worked.
