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I have a brother-in-law who is a roastmaster at a fairly small local coffee company.
Great coffee comes down to several things.
1. You CANNOT replace the effect of FRESH coffee. Freshly roasted and freshly ground. Virtually all the coffee I drink was roasted with the past couple days, and ground immediately before I brew it.
2. The coffee maker. There's no one best, perfect, coffee maker. We have a Hamilton Beach Brew Station. For whatever reason, the rate of flow and the temperature combine to be absolutely fantastic.
3. The way you grind the beans, and the amount of grounds used. My brother-in-law COMPLETELY fills the filter in the basket with grounds. That's a little stronger than I like, but it's also incredibly smooth.
I don't know about all of the fancy coffee that is out there, but I find that if you sprinkle a little salt onto the coffee grounds it takes out a bunch of the bitterness.
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I don't know about all of the fancy coffee that is out there, but I find that if you sprinkle a little salt onto the coffee grounds it takes out a bunch of the bitterness.
Cool.
Of course, if you have good coffee to start with, it won't be bitter anyway.
My Perfect Cup or Coffee in the morning
1) Store whole Dunkin Donut (Original) beans in an air tight container.
2) 4 scoops of whole beans into Krups Fast Touch Coffee Grinder
3) Grind 10 seconds
4) Fill Cuisinart Grind and Brew with mug of cold filtered Brita water and ground beans (Yes, this has a built in grinder, but i dont like it)
5) Brew
6) Store coffee in Nissan 16 oz stainless steel backpack bottle, the greatest thermos ever invented!
Try Cafe Bustello. It's very inexpensive, comes in a yellow can - ground - and is acknowledged by many foodies to be the best packaged ground coffee available in America. Most supermarkets don't carry it, but some do...and it'll prove well worth looking for.
We also like Cafe Bustello. It's an espresso blend, but we use it to make regular coffee. We've tried all the Hispanic (?) espresso cans and our favorites are Cafe Bustello, La Llave, and El Pico. We use three level tablespoons of the coffee espresso for 4 cups of water in our coffee pot. (I think that a cup in your pot is not the same as a cup measurement.)
One of the best things about these brands is they are not expensive!
We tried grinding coffee beans--got a coffee grinder for our wedding--but we found that it didn't grind fine enough for us, and we had to put in a lot of extra coffee to get it strong enough. Plus the labor involved...we found that the brands mentioned above made better coffee than our home-ground coffee and were often much better than more expensive coffees.
By the way, my husband has been trying to get me to get rid of the coffee grinder, but I have found that it's good for grinding other things, such as nuts when you need to grind them extra fine.
Water to coffee proportions being crucial, would you clarify the proportions you favor?
btw - I believe you're right: a "cup" specified when describing the capacity of a coffee maker is typically 6 oz, which is not a cup per measuring cup, methinks...
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Originally Posted by Trkstp Tina
We also like Cafe Bustello. It's an espresso blend, but we use it to make regular coffee. We've tried all the Hispanic (?) espresso cans and our favorites are Cafe Bustello, La Llave, and El Pico. We use three level tablespoons of the coffee espresso for 4 cups of water in our coffee pot. (I think that a cup in your pot is not the same as a cup measurement.)
One of the best things about these brands is they are not expensive!
We tried grinding coffee beans--got a coffee grinder for our wedding--but we found that it didn't grind fine enough for us, and we had to put in a lot of extra coffee to get it strong enough. Plus the labor involved...we found that the brands mentioned above made better coffee than our home-ground coffee and were often much better than more expensive coffees.
By the way, my husband has been trying to get me to get rid of the coffee grinder, but I have found that it's good for grinding other things, such as nuts when you need to grind them extra fine.
On our coffee maker, a "cup" is 5 ounces (whereas a cup measurement is 8 ounces). We've found that one level tablespoon of the Hispanic espresso coffee per 5 ounces of water makes the coffee too strong, so when we're brewing 4 cups of coffee (20 oz. of water), then we put in 3 level tablespoons of coffee. When we're brewing 8 cups of coffee, we put in 7 tablespoons of coffee. Whatever the number of cups we're brewing, we put in 1 less tablespoon of coffee. It's just our own system that seems to work for us.
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