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What to Do with Too Much Coffee Fines? How to Brew with Fine Coffee Grounds? What's the Difference Between Fine and Coarse Grounds?
To better extract the flavor compounds from coffee beans, we grind the coffee beans to increase the surface area for contact with water, thereby improving extraction efficiency. However, whether it's a grinder costing hundreds of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars, without exception, the coffee grounds they produce all contain fine particles.
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Should Fine Particles Be Retained in Coffee Extraction?
Often, due to issues with grinding equipment, the ground coffee ends up containing many extremely fine particles (fines)! At such times, those preparing to brew coffee face a difficult choice! FrontStreet Coffee often says that too many fines become a double-edged sword. While retaining them may potentially yield rich flavors...
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Should You Sieve Out Fine Particles When Brewing Pour-Over Coffee? What Size of Coffee Grounds Are Considered Extra Fine? What Is the Role of Fine Particles?
It wasn't until the moment brewing became clogged that people recalled the fear of being dominated by fine particles! "Flow restriction," as a well-known technique to avoid bitterness, has everything to do with fine particles. When fine particles cause clogging during brewing, if flow restriction isn't applied in time, then
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How to Brew Coffee for Two People? How to Choose Coffee Grind Size? How to Pour Water for Blooming?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). Recently, many friends have asked me some questions about pour-over coffee. I've compiled this Q&A for beginners, hoping to help those who have similar questions~ 01 | Is the extraction time the same when brewing two cups as when brewing one cup?
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Should Fine Powder in Coffee Be Sifted Out? How Should Fine Powder Sifted from Coffee Grounds Be Handled?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) Over-extraction caused by fine powder When brewing coffee, when it comes to fine powder, everyone tries to avoid it, mostly because we associate fine powder with over-extraction, and thinking this way is actually correct, yes. 2013 World Pour-over Champion Matt Perger believes that the Golden Cup
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Pour-Over Coffee: Will You Choose Fine Grind with Fast Flow or Coarse Grind with Slow Flow?
Pour-over coffee has many different brewing methods: one-pour method, three-stage method, volcano pour, four-six method, and more! Each brewing technique revolves around adjustments to extraction principles, eventually evolving into distinctly different brewing approaches. Recently, while browsing online, FrontStreet Coffee discovered that in addition to these conventional brewing styles, there have emerged
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Coffee Grind Sizes: The Difference Between Coarse, Medium, Medium-Fine, Fine, and Very Fine Grinds for Pour-Over Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). The coarseness of coffee grounds affects the amount and speed of coffee component extraction during brewing. Generally speaking, coffee grind sizes can be categorized as: coarse, medium, medium-fine, fine, and very fine.
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The Impact of Fine Coffee Grounds on Flavor and Texture - Recommended Grind Coarseness for Single-Origin Coffee
When coffee beans are ground into coffee powder, whether using a premium grinder worth tens of thousands or an entry-level grinder costing a few hundred, the appearance of fine grounds is currently unavoidable. So naturally, brewing follows the grinding process—after all, that's what everyone does. Yet, the resulting coffee often tastes astringent and bitter...
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Why Can't Fine Powder Be Used in Pour-Over Coffee? Why Should Fine Powder Be Sifted When Making Pour-Over Coffee?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) When I was chatting with friends about fine powder, many of my friends really turn pale at the mention of fine powder. As soon as they hear fine powder, they think of over-extraction, but there are also those who have a special fondness for fine powder, such as Matt Perger's fine powder stirring method. What exactly is this fine powder stuff?
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How to Perform Pour-Over Coffee Stirring? What is the Slurry Flow Brewing Method? What to Do When Coffee Grounds Are Too Fine?
Have you ever experienced this? After finishing your pour-over brew, instead of finding a clean, well-defined crater of coffee grounds in the filter, you're left with a thick, muddy "puddle" like the one shown in the image below. This is a common "negative example" that FrontStreet Coffee often references—a "muddy pit"
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The Perfect Grind: How Fine Should Your Pour-Over Coffee Be? Your Complete Reference Guide to Coffee Grind Sizes
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Pour-over coffee grind size. The importance of grind size lies in its effect on coffee concentration and extraction rate, with body thickness being the most noticeable aspect in taste, under the same conditions (same coffee-to-water ratio
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What Does "High, Fine, Fast, and Large" Mean in Coffee Brewing? How to Brew Sweet-Tasting Pour-Over Coffee?
While human sorrows and joys may not be interconnected, people's preferences for flavors tend to be remarkably similar. For instance, compared to sour or bitter, most people tend to prefer sweetness. This is why you can see that many pour-over brewing methods are developed around how to make coffee taste sweeter. For example, what FrontStreet Coffee is sharing today
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How to Brew Fine Coffee Powder? How to Brew Specialty Coffee Beans for Optimal Flavor?
How should fine coffee powder be brewed? Coffee bean grinding can never achieve uniformity across every bean, which is why the coffee industry has established what's known as cupping grind—where ground coffee beans are sifted through a 20mm sieve, and achieving a 70% pass-through rate defines the cupping grind standard. Generally, coffee bean evaluations are conducted using this specific grind size.
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What Grind Size Should Be Used for Pour-Over Coffee? How Fine Should Coffee Grounds Be for Cold Brew and Cold Drip? What is a #20 Sieve? How Fine Is Granulated Sugar? What Is the Appropriate Grind Size for Espresso?
Regardless of the brewing method we use—whether it's pour-over, cold brew, or espresso—we need to grind coffee beans into powder before starting the brewing process. The purpose of this is to increase the surface area of coffee contact with water, accelerate the dissolution of flavor compounds, and allow the brewed coffee to have a richer taste
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How to Test Whether Your Coffee Grind Size is Correct
Let's guess - if you've clicked on this article, you're probably struggling with coffee grind issues. In the world of pour-over coffee, compared to other parameters, grind size has always been one that people find difficult to clearly articulate. Since everyone's equipment varies, whenever discussing brewing grind size with customers,
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How to Achieve Great Pour-Over Coffee Flavor and Brew Non-Bitter Coffee
Professional Coffee Knowledge Exchange For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) Is your coffee too bitter? Too astringent? Many people when first encountering coffee assume that bitter equals strong, and strong equals fragrant. When we encounter such customers, we patiently explain what coffee flavors exist, as strong doesn't necessarily mean fragrant, and bitter isn't always the case, but for someone who has never studied coffee
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Pour-Over Coffee Grind Size Guide | How Fine Should Coffee Grinds Be for Pour-Over Brewing?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). More people are falling in love with coffee and brewing their own coffee. The rise of pour-over coffee has sparked a trend of making your own coffee. However, for some beginners, despite their enthusiasm, they still
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Why Do Manual Grinders Produce More Fines Than Electric Grinders?
When grinding coffee beans, whether using a high-quality grinder worth tens of thousands of dollars or an entry-level one for just a hundred dollars, the appearance of fine particles is currently unavoidable. However, the amount of fines affects our brewing process, making it inconsistent. The choice of grinder can, to some extent, reduce our concerns about fines
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Can Espresso Grind Be Used for Pour-Over Coffee? What Should You Pay Attention to When Making Pour-Over Coffee with Fine Grind?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Yesterday, a customer asked FrontStreet Coffee about what to do when they bought coffee beans that were ground into espresso grind. Many friends have probably encountered this situation - the coffee grounds they bought are very fine, and if using them with
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What Grind Size is Suitable for American Coffee Makers? The Difference in Grind Fineness Between Espresso and American Coffee
Coffee machine grind fineness values - How fine should espresso grounds be? French press, siphon, drip, or moka pots have lower requirements for coffee ground fineness. Blade grinders (commonly known as chopper grinders or propeller grinders) cannot adjust settings and control fineness by grinding time, resulting in uneven coffee ground particle sizes
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