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Steve Freides[_2_]

dsi1 wrote:
> On 10/29/2011 2:01 AM, wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Come to think of it, if one uses a French press, a burr grinder would
> probably be preferable. I used paper filters so it didn't matter much
> about coffee particle size. My grind came up consistently fine anyway.

Why do people use paper filters in their drip machines? We've always
used a gold filter without a paper insert and always thought the coffee
tasted better that way.

-S-