On Oct 28, 5:25*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:07:56 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
> wrote:
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> >John Kuthe wrote:
> >> Just made my third pot of coffee since buying a grinder. Finest grind
> >> yielded too much bitterness, so I dialed it back to 2/3 finest and
> >> went from 3/4 cup of beans to 1 full cup, and it's great! But that's
> >> almost 33% more coffee per pot!!
>
> >> Good thing I'm a working man again! :-)
>
> >> Might try my coffee slicer again and see if the grinder is worth it to
> >> me.
>
> >> John Kuthe...
>
> >You might try _less_ coffee with the finest grind and see what you think
> >of that. *It's possible that the bitterness is just too much bean
> >surface and you need less. *Also consider not 2/3 the finest but more
> >like 80-90% of the way toward the finest grind and, again, try less
> >coffee.
>
> Didja ever think that the bitterness is from shit coffee?

No, freshly roasted Sumatran is not shit coffee.


> I stopped buying beans about a year ago, retired my burr grinder, and
> now use strictly Walmart brand pre-ground in nitrogen pack cans...
> best coffee I ever had.

Anything from MalWart is shit, by definition.

John Kuthe...