coffee question

[Guest guest]

Good question. i don't know if the heat generated by

the friction of grinding the beans is really anything to

worry about as far as degrading the quality. i think the

best way to get a fresh cup is to grind smaller amounts

daily, right before brewing. Of course the coffee snobs

on my coffee list will say you can't expect a fabulous cup

of coffee unless you buy green beans and roast them

yourself. *lol*

i just grind what beans i plan to use for my daily pot of

coffee each morning. Personally, i do not like to use those

in-store grinding machines; you don't know what the

person before you ground in it or how clean it is on the

inside.

 

~ pt ~

 

I stood beside a hill

Smooth with new-laid snow,

A single star looked out

From the cold evening glow.

 

There was no other creature

That saw what I could see --

I stood and watched the evening star

As long as it watched me

~'February Twilight', by Sara Teasdale

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, " linda " <lindai81@c...> wrote:

Then onto coffee. I buy the shade grown, fair trade, organic coffee and then

save myself some time. I grind it there at the store, but I notice that the

machine heats it up during the grinding process. Doesn't this degrade the

quality? But even my little grinder at home leaves the coffee warm. Anyone

know about this?

> linda

[Guest guest]

Those commercial coffee grinders in stores certainly do

a good job of grinding the beans fine and fast, there is

no denying that. i just don't like the flavored coffees

people grind in them; maybe i am imagining it, but

i swear i could taste the flavored stuff in my coffee beans

when i used the in-store grinders.

 

" Do you know of a coffee grinder that will do a fine grind

without having to stand there all day? "

 

Here you go again, practically begging me to encourage

you to spend more money! *lol* Yes, i do have a good

coffee grinder that grinds my beans to a fine powder

fairly quickly. It is a Melitta brand, model CG-2.

i do a manual pulse-grind thing and count to 20 in my

head to get a nice fine powdery grind for making a

Vietnamese iced coffee. But for my drip pot coffeemaker

i just count to 15. And no, that is a straight count, not a

one-Mississippi-thunder-lightening count. *lol*

So high-tech, eh?

 

~ pt ~

 

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of

doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

~ Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948)

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, " linda " <lindai81 wrote:

>

> I used to grind my beans (never roasted them though) until Market of Choice

got a coffee grinder that will do a pound in 3 seconds..no kidding...and it gets

it

a nice fine grind which my grinder didn't. This will freak the coffee

aficionados...I make two pots at a time because I only drink iced coffee and

that

way it has some serious time to get cold. I use a ton of coffee though as when

it

is cold it needs more coffee flavor. I keep it in the ground coffee in the

refrigerator. I used to keep it in the freezer as I was taught until I read that

in

the self-defrosting ones it will pull the moisture out of the coffee. Do you

know

of a coffee grinder that will do a fine grind without having to stand there all

day?

> linda