On Oct 29, 7:55*am, "Steve Freides" > wrote:
> 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-

As far as I know, paper filters are the only way to get a grind and
mud free cup of coffee. Gold filters are fine but cleaning those
things are a real drag.