2010 Coffee Storage Census

originally posted by Seth Hill:
originally posted by Bwood:
[...] although when I retire I am going to grind the coffee fresh every morning.
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Pick up a burr grinder- you make a one-time selection of the appropriate grind for your brewing method of choice and how much you want measured out*, then just hit a button every morning.

You can fall down the rabbit hole deciding which brand and how much to spend, but all the major automatic coffee maker companies have models under $100 that work fine (and are a significant improvement over the whirring blade grinders- use the old one to grind spices or the occasional cup of decaf).

(*of course, you can change either any time. But in our household, the doc gets up early enough that the caffeine delivery system is a sacrosanct medical device)
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I finally just bought one. I am curious about the magnitude of difference.
 
originally posted by Bwood:

I finally just bought one. I am curious about the magnitude of difference.
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The difference is quite noticeable for someone like me who uses a French press. I set the burr grinder on the coarsest setting for the press, and a blade grinder would give me a very broad distribution of particle sizes. The finer the grind, the less profound the difference, though.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Bwood:

I finally just bought one. I am curious about the magnitude of difference.
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The difference is quite noticeable for someone like me who uses a French press. I set the burr grinder on the coarsest setting for the press, and a blade grinder would give me a very broad distribution of particle sizes. The finer the grind, the less profound the difference, though.

Mark Lipton
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A big difference between having a bag ground every 4-5 days (and keeping in fridge) and grinding beans daily at home for french press?
 
I do grind every morning.

It takes much less time to grind than to boil water, so it never slows me down.
 
Yes, if you're making French press, going from whirly blade to burr makes a noticeable difference. Provided, of course, that you pay attention to your coffee in the first place.

I can only imagine that going from store-ground to fresh-ground makes an even larger difference, butto paraphrase LandauI cannot remember a time when I did not grind my beans immediately before use.
 
originally posted by Arjun Mendiratta:
to paraphrase Landau
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As Joe says. I use both French press and Aeropress, and in both instances I can crank out a couple of doses on either my Solis auto or Zassenhaus manual.

I would roast my own all the time but it is far harder to get an even roast (especially if it's a light, just past first crack roast) in small quantities.
 
For a while, we tried drinking Kahlua in the mornings instead, when coffee preparation first got fussy. This didn't really work out.

Now my question is: can the beans be cold-milled instead of ground?
 
I've tried it with a home use soybean stone mill, and I think too much oil is lost. But that was using store-roasted beans which were about a week old; I'm guessing 2-3 day old beans might be better.
 
I use the freezer only to store beans I'm not going to use real soon. Daily stuff can sit on a cabinet shelf.

They grow an awful lot of coffee in Brazil... (still dancing)
 
I suppose it's worth pointing out that if you're going to go to the trouble of buying good, fresh beans, store them correctly, and using a burr grinder rather than a blade, you should probably not be using a regular drip coffeemaker, which screws up both the brewing temperature and brewing time. Technivorm is/was the standard, but I understand there are alternatives.
 
originally posted by Thor:
I suppose it's worth pointing out that if you're going to go to the trouble of buying good, fresh beans, store them correctly, and using a burr grinder rather than a blade, you should probably not be using a regular drip coffeemaker, which screws up both the brewing temperature and brewing time. Technivorm is/was the standard, but I understand there are alternatives.
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Fuck that! I use a Melitta filter and a tea kettle on the stovetop. Given my druthers, though, it'd be a Chemex setup, but that's just me. Automation is for pansies.

Mark Lipton
 
Well, I'm a press guy, so I don't need the extra thing taking up counter space. But people for whom two cereal bowls of coffee/day aren't enough, I hear the Technivorm can be useful.
 
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