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How to Brew Delicious Coffee_ Should You Buy Coffee Beans or Ground Coffee? How to Purchase Ground Coffee?

Published: 2026-01-28 Author: FrontStreet Coffee
Last Updated: 2026/01/28, Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style). When buying coffee, we often face a choice between coffee beans and ground coffee. About 70% of coffee products sold on the market are ground coffee. The advantage of ground coffee is that it's simple to use and convenient for brewing. And the currently very popular pour-over coffee extraction method might
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The Choice Between Coffee Beans and Coffee Powder

When we buy coffee, we often face the choice between coffee beans and coffee powder.

About 70% of coffee products sold on the market are coffee powder. The advantage of coffee powder is its simplicity and convenience for brewing. The currently very popular pour-over coffee extraction method is perhaps the simplest of all. By placing filter paper over a cup and pouring a single serving of coffee powder into the filter paper, you not only save time on grinding coffee beans but also make preparing brewing tools and even the final cleanup work much easier.

The Hidden Problems with Coffee Powder

While using coffee powder to brew coffee is indeed simple and convenient, if this were the only reason for its widespread popularity, then people's understanding of coffee would be too superficial. Additionally, coffee powder has significant problems because its deterioration rate is many times faster than that of coffee beans.

During the process of grinding coffee beans, about 70% of the carbon dioxide dissipates. The remaining 30% of carbon dioxide also evaporates several times faster than unground coffee beans. Carbon dioxide plays an important role in preventing the deterioration of coffee beans from their surrounding environment (moisture, oxygen). If ground into powder, this effect is greatly reduced. As carbon dioxide evaporates, it also carries away some of the coffee's aroma, so the aroma of coffee powder is not as good as that of coffee beans.

Understanding Deterioration vs. Spoilage

However, we need to remind everyone that deterioration does not mean spoilage. The deterioration process refers to the loss of coffee aroma as carbon dioxide evaporates after coffee roasting is completed.

Practical Considerations for Coffee Powder Usage

If you buy pre-ground coffee powder from a store and finish it within a few days, the taste won't change much. If you don't finish it quickly, you can compare freshly ground coffee powder with that which has been sitting for a long time, and you'll discover how great the price you pay for convenience is when using coffee powder.

Why People Choose Coffee Powder

In fact, people don't buy coffee powder just because of convenience and simplicity. We once conducted a questionnaire survey, and when many people were asked why they buy coffee powder, they answered that they don't know where to buy coffee beans, which might be the reason why few people choose coffee beans. Another group of customers answered that they find it troublesome!

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