Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

I usually make a 3/4 full mug. I would rather have 2 strong cups than 1 weak one. I put the areopress on the 3 cup line and that fills my mug about 1/2 way and then I add a little hot water. It took awhile to get all the variables correct to my liking and then I tweak it depending on the coffee roast by changing the amount of coffee or the coarseness of the grind. I also use a Nespresso so I am used to adding hot water to a couple of shots of espresso. I use the Nespresso when I am in a hurry but I like the variety of different coffees the areopress gives me.

 

This is the way. Your mentor is wise. 19 grams coffee, grind, 320 grams just off boiling water, manual pour over. It’s worth it.

edit to add - also FWIW - I don’t trust those hoppers on top of burr grinders. They don’t create an air tight seal and therefore are less than ideal for coffee storage. In a commercial operation where a user might be going through multiple hoppers a day, that’s not as much of a concern. But in my household we would probably take days to burn through one hopper of beans, and that’s a lot of time for them to sit exposed to atmosphere. We use Airscape brand coffee cans with a floating sealable lid that allows CO2 to escape but doesn’t let oxygen in.

 

Hmmm....Dunkin. I remember as a kid having a Dunkin Donuts about 5 minutes from my home. The Jelly donuts were the bomb! Going there with my parents, and later my teenage friends....the last place I went before I left for Boot camp....what a place.

 

Only Dunkin is found in our house!

 

This is awesome. I'm truly learning to be a coffee snob a little at a time. Those winos will have nothing on me, shortly.

Made my first cup today. Quite the operation. 50g of beans turned into 44g of bean dust. Can't afford to lose that much on every grind. But then, I don't want to grind the whole bag at once or else what's the point of having a grinder, right? Gotta figure out the happy medium. The bolded above may be the secret to compromise.

I will say that my usual blend of 24g coffee to 11oz of water came out a touch stronger today. Not sure if that's the fresher beans or somehow my water was a touch off. I only use a measuring cup with markers on the side to measure the water. Although I am pretty good at being consistent with it.

 

Ah..the smell of Dunkin Donuts.

I was a "porter" a.k.a. known as a janitor at 15 years old. At 16 I trained as a baker. went to school days, worked nights and weekends at 2:00am baking the donuts.

 

Did somebody say donuts!

 

To this very day, when one of us is walking out the house to go to work (or some other task we don't really want to do) we entone "Time to make the donuts..." as we are leaving the house.

I hope your DK's are better than ours --- their coffee is ok, but I'd love a jelly donut that wasn't baked in a central baker and allowed to dry out by the time it hit the store

 

...tasty tasty air I had to give 'em up completely --- Weight, and diabetes risk --- giving up donuts is a small price to pay. Although every now and then --- got to admit I cheat but I save those occasions for the good stuff...

 

So, back to "how to be a coffee snob"...

I've been experimenting with different grind sizes and with how many beans to grind at a time. For those using a grinder, how often do you clean the grinder? After every grind? Once a week?, Once a month? Never? I guess to some extent it depends on how much coffee you grind each time. I really don't know if I should be grinding it a cup at a time or say a weeks worth of coffee at a time. Is there a happy medium?

I'm not sure how much coffee gets stuck in the grinder during the grinding process and therefore wasted every time you start over after cleaning the grinder. With the price of coffee I'm not keen on wasting a lot of it but how bad is it to just cycle through new beans without cleaning out the last grind?

I'm not interested in winning any contests, I just want a happy compromise of grinding the beans while not making a major project out of it.

Thoughts?

 

I have never cleaned my grinder. it is fairly new but the last one I had lasted over 10 yeas and I never cleaned it ether. Maybe I should read the owners manual. I grind enough for one cup of coffee at a time and if I am traveling I take my hand grinder.

 

That's what I want to hear! Reading the owners manual is cheating! Anybody can do that. I want hear some real world experiences here! LoL!

 

Heck, I barely clean my coffee maker

Never cleaned a burr grinder...I'd never use water on them, too much chance of starting corrosion and other nasty things.

 

I use a K-cup coffee maker. I have soft water so it doesn’t need cleaning and the part that gets dirty is thrown out.

 

I gave up completely when Kuereg tried putting DRM in their cups. I really liked its convenience...was too bad. VERY easy to clean was the biggest selling point. Yet somehow the animals in the office still made a mess of them....

 

Good man Sweeney! I like hearing that.