SweetyPea Senior Member Joined: 8 Dec 2004 Posts: 39 Location: So. Calif Expertise: I love coffee
Grinder: Starbucks Barista Drip: Melitta Clarity Roaster: Zach and Dani's
Posted Fri Jan 7, 2005, 5:33pm Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
This might help. The only thing I like about my Mr. Coffee blade grinder is that it posts on the side of the grinder how many Tbls of coffee beans are needed for the amount of cups you are brewing. Cups TBls. 12 9 10 7.5 8 6 6 4.5 4 3
Posted Sat Jan 8, 2005, 2:31am Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
SweetyPea Said:
This might help. The only thing I like about my Mr. Coffee blade grinder is that it posts on the side of the grinder how many Tbls of coffee beans are needed for the amount of cups you are brewing. Cups TBls. 12 9 10 7.5 8 6 6 4.5 4 3
SweetyPea Senior Member Joined: 8 Dec 2004 Posts: 39 Location: So. Calif Expertise: I love coffee
Grinder: Starbucks Barista Drip: Melitta Clarity Roaster: Zach and Dani's
Posted Sun Jan 9, 2005, 5:37pm Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
These measurements are for a 5-6 oz cup of coffee. I usually brew 8 cups and I use 6 to 7 TBLS of coffee beans (before grinding) depending on how strong I want my coffee. Racer please share how much you use. Gail in So Calif
Posted Sun Jan 9, 2005, 11:43pm Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
SweetyPea, Go back 4 posts and use the link provided. I use the Connoisseur's ratio. I need to tweak my grind a bit, but I'm really making excellent drip coffee now. I am currently using the Medium setting just before Fine on my Capresso Infinity grinder. Neal
Posted Fri Jan 20, 2006, 9:33am Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
You guys are getting more ground volume than whole bean volume? When i grind up a pound of coffee for some poor schmoe that buys a pound from us and wants it ground up(yuck! it'll be stale by the time they use it), the beans take up more room in the bag than the ground coffee.
Barista Guild Member #170 Baristas seem like shots of espresso if left to sit too long. They grow cold, bitter and unpalatable.
counting Senior Member Joined: 8 May 2005 Posts: 823 Location: Baltimore, MD
Posted Fri Jan 20, 2006, 8:16pm Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
My experience has been that, for drip or French Press grinds, a volume of beans yields the same amount of ground coffee given the following condition: after transferring to the measuring container, both the beans and ground coffee must be tapped or shaken or somehow settled to give consistent results. I don't know what the result would be with espresso grind.
Posted Tue Jan 31, 2006, 12:21am Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
The glass cup that came with my coffee mill has two-table spoon increments printed on the side. It took me three or four adjustments of water, grind fineness, and ground coffee amounts to get great (manual) drip coffee. One tablespoon per 4oz of water tastes weak for me, so I use 24 ounces of water with eight tablespoons of ground coffee, which is about five tablespoons of beans. I use the brew funnel and paper filters from my Bunn auto drip and brew filtered water into my thermos. So far, I haven't found a gold filter that fits the Bunn brew funnels.
Shadow4173 Senior Member Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Massachusetts Expertise: I love coffee
Grinder: yes Drip: Mr Coffee Roaster: yes
Posted Tue Jan 31, 2006, 3:34am Subject: Re: Ground or Whole Bean: Coffee Amount Question
Never really thought about whole to ground conversion. I usually grind in small amounts anyways, just enough to last 2-3 brewings.
I usually use 6 semi-leveled tbsp's of coffee to make a 12cup pot of coffee. Probably comes out to 7 leveled tbsp's. But that's just my taste. But that's since I've started home roasting, which was a learning experience in the beginning.
Home roasted beans vs. store/cafe bought beans tend to have a flavor difference. Once in awhile I have to get the store/cafe beans. I find that I add more ground with the store than I do with the home roast.
I've also found that getting a cup of coffee at a coffee shop has more of a watery taste, even if it is a "high" end cafe.
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