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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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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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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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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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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 Use a Coffee Grinder Sieve? How to Use a Sieve? What Are the Requirements for Grind Size in Pour-Over Coffee?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). How to use a coffee grinder sieve? How to use a sieve? What are the requirements for grind size? Using a sieve to improve the quality of pour-over coffee. Grinding coffee is to increase the speed of coffee extraction. Different extractions
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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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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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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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What Changes When Adding Filter Paper to Espresso Extraction? How to Reduce Fine Particle Fallout? The Secret to Better Tasting Americano Coffee!
Insoluble substances in espresso crema—fine particles (one of the components). They can provide extremely high body to espresso, but at the same time, they will also contribute their own bitterness. Because of this, they have successfully gained a group of "haters"! Because their existence affects the taste and cleanliness of coffee, so,
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What is Tiger Stripe Espresso? Where Does Espresso Crema Come From? How Do Fine Grinds Affect Coffee?
Today while FrontStreet Coffee was browsing online, we discovered an interesting question post. A netizen shared a photo of their extracted espresso and asked: Why are there 'oil droplets' on the surface of the espresso crema? (Reference image below) As we can see from the image above, there are indeed floating particles on the crema surface
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Is It Normal to Have Coffee Grounds in Your Coffee? Will Portafilter Baskets Deform? How Fine Are Fine Grounds?
When we drink espresso, we often notice some black particles at the bottom of the cup, especially in milk-based coffee drinks where these black specks are more conspicuous due to color contrast. Whether it's casual home brewing or professional coffee shop preparation, these particles tend to appear consistently
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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 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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How Fine Should Pour-Over Coffee Be Ground? How Does Grind Size Affect Coffee Flavor?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) FrontStreet Coffee today discusses how fine coffee grounds need to be to achieve perfect extraction? Grinding is the first step in manual coffee brewing, but it's also where many people fail - either grinding too fine or too coarse, indirectly affecting the taste of the brewed coffee. If you want to precisely control the
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Why Are There Coffee Grounds in My Espresso? What's Wrong with the Espresso Extraction Process?
With the recent drop in temperature, customers visiting the coffee shop have been choosing hot beverages. After finishing his hot Americano, a customer recalled encountering tiny particles at the bottom of the cup in the past and asked FrontStreet Coffee: "Are those residues at the bottom coffee grounds? Why have I never noticed this when drinking iced coffee?"
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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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How Fine Should You Grind Coffee for Pour-Over? Calibration Guidelines for Grinder Settings
FrontStreet Coffee emphasizes the importance of parameters when analyzing pour-over coffee knowledge. Using the right water temperature, the right grind size, the right coffee-to-water ratio, and the right pouring method will definitely yield the right coffee. This "right" is not unique; it's just that FrontStreet Coffee believes these values are very beginner-friendly and simple during our exploration process.
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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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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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