nyc_crema Senior Member Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,602 Location: New York City Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Mon Nov 8, 2004, 9:00pm Subject: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
I use jars from IKEA, but they are generic glass jars with a seal on top that supposidly keeps things fresh. It opens via a metal locking thing. Nothing complicated and your run-of-the-mill glass jars that open/close.
Wondering if there is something better, like zip lock bags or even just paper bags folded.
Posted Mon Nov 8, 2004, 9:33pm Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
nyc_crema Said:
I use jars from IKEA, but they are generic glass jars with a seal on top that supposidly keeps things fresh. It opens via a metal locking thing. Nothing complicated and your run-of-the-mill glass jars that open/close.
Wondering if there is something better, like zip lock bags or even just paper bags folded.
That's a good option - I use them too. If I buy roasted beans I place a ziplock baggie inside that jar and the beans in the bag. For home roasted I use the foil-backed ziplock bags with the one-way valve from SweetMarias.
I use a smaller jar like that for my blends. I mix enough beans to keep a 2-day supply in my jar. I think they may be called mason jars but I'm not sure.
YUP, thats the name. SImple glass jars that have a top that can be locked into place via a simple metal clip-like device. Hard to explain, I suppose I should include a picture but not tonight.
Posted Mon Nov 8, 2004, 10:28pm Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
nyc_crema Said:
YUP, thats the name. SImple glass jars that have a top that can be locked into place via a simple metal clip-like device. Hard to explain, I suppose I should include a picture but not tonight.
nyc_crema Senior Member Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,602 Location: New York City Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Alexia, Silvia Grinder: Mazzer Mini Roaster: Gorilla, Intelligentsia,...
Posted Mon Nov 8, 2004, 11:14pm Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
More pictures to come, just not now cause its late. I take thousands of digital pictures a year (Im addicted) so I'll definetly take a lot of miss silvia and anything espresso related.
I'll continue to keep my beans in glass jars. THey look good and are very functional. I like it when guests come over and see two large jars filled with espresso roast (nice and dark, usually two different kinds - each jar fits a pound of whole bean just perfectly) adn then a smaller jar with some already ground (french press) grounds. I'm even anal enough to put some masking tape on the top of the jars to label the bean (cause I will forget). I even go so far to write "brasil" instead of "brazil" on some brazilian blends. LOL thats cause I keep it real! Nooo, I like near a very brazilian neighborhood and thats how they spell brazil (with an "s"). Okay, sleep time for me, its 1:15 in the big apple.
Posted Mon Nov 8, 2004, 11:42pm Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
nyc_crema Said:
More pictures to come, just not now cause its late. I take thousands of digital pictures a year (Im addicted) so I'll definetly take a lot of miss silvia and anything espresso related.
I'll continue to keep my beans in glass jars. THey look good and are very functional. I like it when guests come over and see two large jars filled with espresso roast (nice and dark, usually two different kinds - each jar fits a pound of whole bean just perfectly) adn then a smaller jar with some already ground (french press) grounds. I'm even anal enough to put some masking tape on the top of the jars to label the bean (cause I will forget).
Posted Tue Nov 9, 2004, 12:04am Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
Yep, that's me too Jon! Here's one of those jars, just snapped the pic a min ago., I picked it up at our local Salvation Army store a couple of weeks ago., I think it was $1.99. {:-)
Posted Tue Nov 9, 2004, 12:09am Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
I use these every day, they look like a Ball/Globe Mason jar & hold a HWP 100 gram (green weight) roast perfectly! {:-). I have 5 that I picked up at a Dollar store & that's all they had.
Posted Tue Nov 9, 2004, 12:17am Subject: Re: What do you keep your fresh coffee in?
Jon or Chan, are they the Ball 60000 half-pint regular can or freeze mason jars?, they look to be. The 1st link that came up I saw them quickly here: http://www.goodmans.net/get_list_531.htm The pint size are bulbous.
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