Air is the enemy of all coffee drinkers. As soon as air reaches the coffee grinds it immediately starts to lose their flavor. Ground coffee when bought is vacuum sealed by the manufacturer but once opened the coffee immediately begins to lose its freshness. To ensure that your coffee is full of flavour you are best to buy and grind your own coffee beans.
The freshest cup of coffee always grind your coffee bean just before you brew up your coffee. Fresh ground coffee equals a fresh great tasting cup. How should coffee beans be ground in order to get the best taste? Knowing how to grind your coffee is an important step in making fantastic coffee.
Different types of coffee calls for different types of grinds. So you’ll need to learn to use your coffee grinder properly if you want to make the freshest best tasting coffee possible.
Of course for the real coffee fanatics and connesieurs you may want to invest in a complete bean to cup coffee machine such as the delonghi ESAM5400
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Percolator/ French Press Coffee
If you plan on brewing your coffee with a percolator or a French Press coffee maker then you’ll need a coarser grind. Place the coffee beans in your coffee grinder and tap the grind button a few times as you would use the pulse feature on your food processor.
The aim is that the beans should be broken up into tiny pieces. If the grinds look like a powder then you have over indulged in the grinding, time to statt again. A short tap on the button is all it takes do not keep it held down.
Automatic drip coffee makers
Automatic drip coffee makers work best with medium grinds. Picture the grinds that you’d find in a can of supermarket coffee. Those are medium grinds. They can be described as looking like brown sand. Try and grind the coffee beans until it looks like brown sand. In this situation ensure that you do not get carried away and over grind the coffee beans. For best results in an automatic coffee machine the coffee must not be ground to fine.
Espresso maker
Finally if your using an espresso maker, you want those fine powdery grinds that you’ve been trying to avoid when making coarse and medium grinds. Grind away until you are happy, the finer the ground coffee the better. One of the best espresso coffee makers that we recommend is the Delonghi EC710
