August 27th, 2010 by Geoff Marks
Coffee lovers will always tell you just how the very best coffee originates from coffee beans ground immediately before the coffee is brewed. This has become a common refrain that seasoned coffee lovers recognize by heart. It seems sensible, therefore, that no kitchen can be complete without some sort of coffee grinder equal to the challenge of transforming your preferred beans in to a good cup of espresso.
What Makes A Great Coffee Grinder?
In the world of the coffee grinder presently there are two basic styles: burr grinders and blade grinders. The difference between the two is simply how the beans are ground. Burr grinders employ, obviously, burrs, that look like plates with gears fitted. One of the burrs spins and grinds the beans against the other burr, which is immobile. Blade coffee grinders use a spinning blade to mill the beans.
On the subject of great coffee, there are particular factors that have an affect on the …
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August 17th, 2010 by Geoff Marks
Coffee lovers will always tell you just how the very best coffee originates from coffee beans ground immediately before the coffee is brewed. This has become a common refrain that seasoned coffee lovers recognize by heart. It seems sensible, therefore, that no kitchen can be complete without some sort of coffee grinder equal to the challenge of transforming your preferred beans in to a good cup of espresso.
What Makes A Great Coffee Grinder?
In the world of the coffee grinder presently there are two basic styles: burr grinders and blade grinders. The difference between the two is simply how the beans are ground. Burr grinders employ, obviously, burrs, that look like plates with gears fitted. One of the burrs spins and grinds the beans against the other burr, which is immobile. Blade coffee grinders use a spinning blade to mill the beans.
On the subject of great coffee, there are particular factors that have an affect on the …
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May 9th, 2010 by Geoff Marks
Tea is the number one drink in the world, but that is most likely due to its ease of travel. Because it is in bags it can go anywhere without sacrificing taste. Coffee is also a large staple in the drink world and is heavily ingrained in many cultures. In America, coffee is drank all day, but it is best known as a morning ritual. It is the drink that starts to the day.
How to brew the perfect cup of coffee is the subject of countless articles and lists of rules – coffee drinkers can be a fussy group. There are, however, some static rules that for those that love coffee, are strictly adhered to. These include having the cleanest equipment, using the best water, not using boiling water, using the freshest beans, and of course, grinding your beans shortly before brewing.
These rules, of course, are just an overview. There are sub headings and subsections that are forever …
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January 22nd, 2010 by Geoff Marks
One of the first things I focus on in the morning is my automatic coffee maker. Yes, my child is running around the house, and my cat is meowing at my feet to be fed, but without coffee at morning, none of these things will get done. Though there’s a timer to set my coffee brewer to brew my java before I wake up, this is not something that I prefer to do. I want to grind my beans using my antique manual coffee grinder, and that means that I have to do it right away before I brew. If I do not, the coffee will not be as fresh as it could be.
Some time ago I had an automatic coffee machine that my hubby purchased using his citibank mastercard gold card. I guess it brewed my coffee well enough, however I found that the flavor was off. He went out and purchased me a high-priced single …
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November 25th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
The aroma of freshly ground coffee beans is like no other aroma on earth. It is almost intoxicating, and certainly warm and inviting. That aroma that has an underlying nutty essence is unquestionably one of the most pleasant odors on earth.
That wonderful aroma is likely one of the reasons that so many people now own coffee bean grinders and grind their own beans to make every pot of coffee.
Grinding coffee isn’t a new thing. In the old days, people actually used a bowl and pestle to grind coffee as well as wheat and corn. Using a bowl and a pestle to grind coffee required muscle power and time…a lot of time. As mankind got smarter, hand grinders were invented that made the task of grinding coffee much less physically challenging as well as quicker.
Manual coffee grinders were used for many, many years. In most of the old western shoot-em-ups, if you look closely at the general-store scenes …
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October 8th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
Grinding one’s own coffee beans is quickly becoming a part of the American version of the coffee drinking experience. The choices for coffee grinders available for purchase is mind-boggling, so you really do need to know a few things about coffee grinders before you purchase one of your very own.
The earliest version of coffee grinding was done with a bowl and a pestle. The beans were roasted first, then they were placed in a bowl and crushed or ground with a pestle. Then things got mechanized, and changed quickly when coffee grinders that were hand-cranked came into being. If you have ever watched old western movies, there is always a hand-cranked coffee grinder in the local general store.
Then along came electricity, and things just got easier. The first electrified coffee grinders actually operated on the same principle as the hand-cranked version. There were basically two flat plates (one stationary and the other moving) that the coffee beans were …
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