is grinding your own coffee better?
i have a grinder and do it some- but still buy alot of flavored stuff sometimes- i think maybe the grinding is better?
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3y
you want just north of 4800mg per liter
but if you over-boil to get there you're going to leech your tanins -> bitterness, Yuck!
so if you pull a mild vacuum and keep the temp no higher than 92C... well you be the judge
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EDGEMAN
3y
And yes, I grind my coffee beans every morning. I think it's fresher, but you really don't get the freshest beans unless you either visit a coffee roaster or roast your own.
But if you take cream, sugar, or an artificial flavoring in your coffee, don't bother with freshly roasted coffee because they mask the flavor. But if you drink your coffee black, then definitely go with fresh roasted beans.
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3y
Kicking myself for years of drinking that stuff out of plastic pods.
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3y
the freshness of the beans affects the flavor more than anything else. Recently picked & roasted beans are best. But in the US you usually have no way of knowing when your beans were harvested & roasted. I have a friend who owns a small coffee farm in Honduras & I get a 10 lb bag of Copan coffee from him occasionally that is no more than a few weeks old. It's always better than anything I can buy in the US. Coffee is like any other crop, it tastes best when freshly harvested.
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EDGEMAN
3y
The #1 thing that impacts coffee freshness is roasting date. I think beans are at their freshest up to 10-14 days after roasting, then the flavor starts dropping off...
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Yes. If you leave ground coffee out, it loses its flavor
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3y
Grinding at home will produce fresher tasting coffee. "Better" is whatever you prefer it to be
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3y
My local grocery store has a good selection of whole bean coffee from DMV-region roasters. To me, that's the sweet spot in the Convenience/Expense/Taste Venn-diagram.
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3y
like a middle school dance in the 90’s. We get flavored beans 🫘
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