Coffee beans in coffee bypass

dude your aged mother is killing your machine. First of all, forbid access to not make problem worse! What's next? She'll put eggs there thinking it's a blender. seriously.

secondly, it's best to take the beans out. the way it works is it directly puts the ground (in your case not) beans into the brew assy. There's a piston w/ a metal filter. If you run as is it could bend the metal part.

Turn the machine upside down and give it a good shake. That's the lazy way.

If you wanna be thorough, take off the brew group and empty it out by hand. This way you'll know for sure it's empty. If you not lazy, good chance to clean it. It's prolly disgusting, as you'll see.