On Dec 30, 4:23*pm, Mike Muth > wrote:
> 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!!
>
> Try dialing back the amount you use at the finest grind. *Most people make
> their coffee too strong. *If you do that, there's not much point to getting
> good coffee and grinding your own.
>
> I sprinkle a few grains of salt in the grounds when I make my coffee. *That
> seems to take out some of the bitterness.
>

You're right that salt seems to mellow out coffee. I should keep a
shaker of salt alongside the Splenda.

My Keurig coffeemaker died. It ain't that old but the word is that
these things are unreliable and the pumps frequently die. What I do is
take the coffee out of the K-cup and brew the grind in a small
automatic drip machine. The grind in the K-cups are pretty fine.

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