On Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:46:15 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 4:15 PM, 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...
> >
>
> I don't understand the burr grinders myself. It seems like a messy way
> to grind coffee and the grinding surfaces will collect old coffee
> grounds. I probably wouldn't be able to taste the old grounds and oils
> but the idea is icky. The worst would be those machines in supermarkets.
> I like the high speed sound of the blade grinders myself.

The coffee purists will tell you all about heat and suchlike, but the fact is that nobody but possibly a few experts can tell the difference using the drip process with paper filters and many people prefer the taste of blade-ground drip coffee to burr ground anyway.

If you're doing French Press you can _see_ a difference--the whirligigs don't give an even grind--you get a lot of fines that make it through the press and end up as sediment in your cup.

If you're doing Espresso then it's the difference between having coffee and not having coffee--the fines from the whirligig clog the portafilter and nothing comes out.