How to Start Grinding Coffee Beans
Many experts agree that grinding the beans and brewing the coffee are the most important aspects of coffee making. We can have organic gourmet beans, roasted yesterday by a master roaster but we don't have coffee until the beans are ground and brewed. So why do we grind coffee? Well we could put the whole bean into a pot of hot water and eventually we would have something like a coffee. However, to take a very long time to do this and we would probably have cold coffee by the time it brewed. But eventually someone discovered that grinding coffee sped up the process and now different types of coffee require different sizes of grounds. For example, a French press will require a larger grind while espresso will require a fine grind. The difference is the amount of time for that particular brew. An espresso brew is very quick while a French Press brew takes more time. If the grind in imprecise it results in a poor brew. That’s why it’s so important to have a good coffee grinder in our how to make coffee great arsenal. And of course we grind just before we brew not at the coffee shop. So how do we choose the best grinder? Well coffee experts say that a burr grinder is the best and I can tell you that I found a difference not only in taste but also in convenience when I stepped up to my first burr grinder. It has an LED reader on the top which allows me to program it for the number of cups I want and I can also adjust it for 18 different grinds from fine to coarse. My old blade grinder had just one speed and smashed the beans to smithereens. It was hard to get a precise blend as if I wanted fine coffee I ground longer and vice versa if I wanted a rough grind. So often I miscalculated and either over or underground the beans. Now it’s all automatic and I get the perfect grind every time. |
