Air is the enemy of all coffee drinkers. Once air comes in contact with your coffee grinds, they begin 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. The best manner to ensure that your coffee is as tasty as possible is to buy whole coffee beans and grind then yourself as you need them.
To ensure great tasting coffee grind your coffee beans right before you brew your coffee. Do you know the best way to grind your coffee? Knowing how to grind your coffee is an important step in making fantastic coffee.
Different types of ground coffee are needed for different types of coffee. For the freshest and best coffee you need to grind your own coffee beans.
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. Just simply tap the button do not hold it done.
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 at the coffee beans untill is very finely ground. One of the best espresso coffee makers that we recommend is the Delonghi EC710
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