Hello, dear friends of the community! Today, I am happy to share a little treasure that I found in a market in a small town in Venezuela.

Venezuela is a country with a centuries-old tradition of coffee cultivation and consumption. In some of its more rural provinces, you can grow the beans and grind them in a rudimentary way, or through very basic grinders like this one, I show you in the picture.

This is a coffee bean grinder that works with electricity. It has several parts, a small hopper where the coffee beans are deposited and ground. It also has a small disk that finishes grinding the larger pieces of beans and turns them into a delicious powder that will serve to prepare a wonderful cup of coffee. For the pieces to move it has a belt mechanism.

If you look closely there is a metal shaft that holds the disc that grinds the coffee. This is held in place with adhesive tape as the piece is detached, and the owner has not found a spare part to replace it. Although it is an unattractive aspect of this coffee grinder, it makes us think that despite this limitation, human ingenuity prevails to always have a delicious ground coffee.

At the outlet of the grinding disc, there is a plastic bag. I was very surprised by this, but its function is to serve as a small funnel that collects the pulverized coffee, preventing the coffee from spreading out of the container due to the effect of the wind. It is an activity that is carried out in the open air in an open-air market.

This coffee grinder finds deteriorated, indicating that it has been grinding coffee beans for a long time, an activity that is the livelihood for several families in rural areas of the country.

I would love that the images and video could bring to you that wonderful aroma of freshly ground coffee beans. It is a fascinating experience and since it is getting very cold in this zone, making a cup of coffee with these freshly ground beans is more than delicious.