Perfect Coffee From the Perfect Grind
The worst thing for coffee, either ground or beans, is air. As soon as air reaches the coffee grinds it immediately starts to lose their flavor. Coffee manufacturers vacuum seal their grinds to keep them fresh while they sit on the shelves at the supermarket but once you break that seal, it’s all downhill from there. To ensure that your coffee is full of flavour you are best to buy and grind your own coffee beans.
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 coffee calls for different types of grinds. 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. Simply tap the grind button a couple of times,.
The aim is that the beans should be broken up into tiny pieces. If they look like a powder, then you need to slowly back away from the coffee grinder and start 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. Look at or imagine the ground coffee that you find in the supermarket. Those are medium grinds. The ground coffee looks like the brown sand from a beach made of coffee. Try and grind the coffee beans until it looks like brown sand. Once again your coffee beans should not be over ground. Grinding your coffee to fine is a mistake if you are using an autoatic coffee machine.
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
