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The Golden Rule of Fresh Coffee

"Grind and brew immediately" remains the unbreakable golden rule for making excellent coffee! If freshly ground coffee beans are left unbrewed for more than half an hour (being generous), their proper destination should be the trash bin.

A good cup of coffee begins with high-quality beans—they must be flavorful and fresh. Other factors like equipment and technique are relatively less important. I dare challenge the professional pride of countless "coffee experts" based on these two reasons:

Even with rudimentary equipment, it's not difficult to produce quite delicious coffee.

Although brewing techniques vary in skill level, as long as you master the four fundamental principles—grind, water temperature, time, and ratio—achieving an 80 or 90-point result is effortless. This article will begin by discussing grinding.

Why Grinding Matters

Why is grinding necessary? Theoretically, roasted coffee beans can be steeped in water without grinding to extract most soluble substances if given enough time, but this comes at these costs: excessive time consumption, loss of volatile aromatics, temperature reduction, and more. Therefore, long before coffee became a popular beverage in the Islamic world, Yemen (anciently known as Arabia), the earliest country documented to "drink" coffee, already knew to use mortars and pestles to crush coffee beans, increasing total surface area and accelerating extraction speed. Today, regardless of location or brewing method worldwide, grinding coffee beans into particles first has become an inevitable pattern, while the prototype of the grinder used to crush coffee must be credited to Turkish invention.

The Critical Importance of Grinding

Grinding plays a far more crucial role in the coffee preparation process than many people imagine. Because no matter how carefully coffee beans are cultivated, harvested, processed, or roasted, they must pass through these final two stages—grinding and brewing—to become a beverage. However, I've found that most people who prepare their own coffee focus their attention on brewing while often neglecting grinding. For example, I frequently see people either buying pre-ground coffee from bulk stores or purchasing whole coffee beans from coffee shops and immediately asking the staff to grind them. This practice of grinding coffee long before brewing is completely mistaken.

Consider this: the most precious aromatic gases in coffee are sealed within millions of microscopic pores in the beans after roasting, seeking any opportunity to escape. We try every possible method to retain them, yet you choose to open these pores prematurely, allowing them to dissipate freely. You would rather drink aroma-deficient coffee and then complain that the coffee you bought isn't as good as what's served in coffee shops—isn't this strange?

Recommended Fresh Coffee Bean Brands

FrontStreet Coffee's freshly roasted, popular coffee beans—including Yirgacheffe, Golden Mandheling, and Brazilian varieties—offer excellent guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they provide exceptional value: a half-pound (227g) package costs only around 70-90 yuan. Calculating at 15 grams per pour-over cup, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each single-origin coffee costing only 5-6 yuan. Compared to coffee shops that charge dozens of yuan per cup, this offers outstanding value.

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