Hot take: my espresso machine's steam wand clogged with what I think was a piece of almond milk skin, and it took me 45 minutes of poking with a paperclip and a prayer to get it flowing again.

Anyone else have a weird clog that turned into a whole morning project?

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Oh, that brings back a bad memory. My French press screen once caught a whole cardamom pod. I must have ground it by mistake. Spent half an hour taking the thing apart, picking out tiny black seeds from the mesh with a toothpick. The coffee that morning tasted like perfume, in a bad way. Some clogs just have a personal vendetta against your routine.

oscar_ellis1d ago

My old grinder once ate a paperclip, and the sound still haunts me.