You should grind fresh. It's not expensive or difficult and it makes a world of difference
Yea, I always just grind about a dozen and a half beans or so and make 6 oz cup of joe with French press in the morning. A good quality bag of organic beans lasts me a good while and I end up spending about $10 on HQ coffee for an entire month or two.
I always just grind about a dozen and a half beans or so and make 6 oz cup of joe with French press in the morning.
Can't tell if trolling. I use 50 grams for a 20 oz cup, or 15 grams for 6 oz. 18 beans isn't enough to make the water tea color.
If you’re steeping for several minutes using a french press then yea, it becomes a good strong 6 oz cup of brew.
We keep our unopened bags in the freezer and the opened in the fridge.
"opened in the fridge." this is perhaps the worst thing you could do. Moisture is your enemy.
An air tight container, preferably with as much air as possible removed, is how to go. Then there's no difference between storing in the fridge or in a cupboard (ie. out of the light).
I tried storing beans in a vacuum sealed bag resealed after each time and noticed zero difference. Maybe I just go through a bag too quickly.
Fridges remove moisture. It's why you cover things you place into the fridge.
If it is opened in the fridge, it may absorb the odor and taste of other food.
Never encountered that. But certainly plausible.
This. Coffee dies within hours of grinding. Get whole bean coffee, leave it on the counter. Grind before brewing. If you can’t tell the difference between coffee you ground yesterday and today fresh, your coffee is already dead, buy better coffee.
From roasted, coffee needs to rest for 3-10 days, then it’s good from then for a month or two. Ground loses all delicate flavor notes within hours. If you need an inexpensive grinder, look up hario on Amazon. Spend 30-40$. Do not get a whirly blade grinder.
Self roasting is even better. I use my heat gun.
Paddle roasters aren't expensive either
If I use my automatic burr grinder that shit gets everywhere. It is like stripper glitter and legos had a baby.
Lol how? How are you getting coffee everywhere
The transfer from the grinder to the basket. Since the grinder also weighs the coffee I can't put the basket, which also doesn't fit under the grinder anyway, directly under where the grounds come out. Then a combination of the fine ground coffee and the aeration of the grounds as they go through the burr grinder means a nonzero amount of grounds turns into an aerosol.
I have the same problem. My gf yells at me about it like it's my fault. Whereas she never uses the grinder and just orders shitty pods.
Also sometimes the little plastic insert under the grounds recepticle sticks to the recepticle when you remove it, falls on the floor, and even more coffee goes everywhere. I had a grind n brew for a while but it sucked.
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