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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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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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How Does Grind Particle Size Affect Pour-Over Coffee Flavor? Should You Include Fine Particles?
Grinding is crucial for coffee, as particle size directly affects the efficiency of hot water extraction. Theoretically, the more uniform the coffee particles, the more consistent the overall extraction efficiency, resulting in better coffee flavor. Experimental Design The variable in this experiment is the uniformity of coffee particles, so two groups were established: Group A and Group B. The grind size has an 80% pass-through rate on a #20 standard sieve.
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Is it normal to have coffee grounds at the bottom of a latte? How to solve the issue of powder residue in espresso extraction?
Have you ever encountered this situation: after finishing your coffee, you look at the bottom of the cup and find some fine powder particles settled; sometimes when you buy an iced latte from a shop, you also find black residue at the bottom. Is this normal? Does it affect consumption? These black powder particles deposited at the bottom of the coffee cup,
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Introduction to Starbucks Coffee Bean Grinding Degree, Grind Coarseness Values, and Grinding Scale
Introduction to Starbucks Coffee Bean Grinding Degree, Grind Coarseness Values, and Grinding Scale 1, a certain amount of coffee. It is recommended that before each enjoyment, you only prepare the amount you want to drink. Generally speaking, you will miss the essence of the coffee, but generally speaking, it is rarely 180 milliliters, the brewed coffee will be light and bitter, for the grinding degree there is a...
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Coffee Bean Grind Size Comparison Within 9 Settings: Reference for Pour-Over Coffee Grind Adjustment
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information. Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style). How to judge and set the coffee bean grind size for espresso. The image below shows the names of each part of the grinder, where 9 is the threaded adjuster. 1. Thread spacing 1.8mm 2. Part 1
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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 Determine Coffee Grind Size? Can Coffee Grounds Be Brewed Directly?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). How to judge and set the coffee bean grind coarseness. Making a cup of coffee requires important processes such as roasting, grinding, and extraction. Today we will discuss a roasted
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What's the Difference Between Conical and Flat Burr Grinders in Coffee Flavor?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Yesterday we discussed how to adjust a new coffee grinder, and today we're comparing the newly acquired Huijia ZD-10 with our regularly used Forte-BG grinder. We'll further confirm the grind size and calibrate the grinding. Coffee grinders can generally be categorized into flat burr, conical burr, and
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Is it Normal for Espresso to Have Sediment? What Causes Coffee Residue in the Cup?
Some friends have messaged FrontStreet Coffee saying, "Recently, when I extract espresso, there are some black particles settled at the bottom. Is this normal?" This might look abnormal, but it's actually a normal phenomenon! These black particles deposited at the bottom of the espresso are actually coffee grounds that have passed through the mesh holes of the portafilter basket.
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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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What's the Difference in Grind Settings for Pour-Over Coffee? Grind Coarseness and Reference Standards?
For professional coffee knowledge and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). People who love coffee all want to learn how to brew coffee at home, and pour-over coffee is the most suitable method for home brewing. However, brewing coffee at home also has challenges - water temperature can be measured.
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What are the characteristics of V60 and Kono drippers? Advanced pour-over coffee brewing techniques! How to brew a rich, layered pour-over coffee?
As we all know, the concept of "Golden Cup Extraction" refers to a widely accepted extraction range for coffee. When we control both extraction rate and concentration within this range, the coffee will appeal to the vast majority of people. To give a simple example, when it comes to extraction rate, a coffee bean contains
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How Fine Should Coffee Grounds Be for Pour-Over Coffee? What Type of Coffee is Specialty Coffee?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Pour-Over Coffee Grind Size Different coffee grinders produce different grinding results, even from the same brand and model. Different types of burr discs, the shape of coffee particles
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Pour-Over Coffee Grind Size Reference & Adjustment Methods for Coffee Grinder Settings
I. Adjusting the coffee grinder's grind size: Most fully automatic coffee machines have a rotary button inside the bean hopper with scale markings. This button controls the grinding degree of coffee beans, essentially regulating the coarseness of the coffee powder. Larger numerical values correspond to coarser coffee grounds, while smaller values produce finer grounds. We can
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Why Should Pour-Over Coffee Be Brewed in Stages? How to Brew Hand-Ground Coffee
Following our recent discussion on why pour-over coffee should be brewed in stages (link🚪), some readers asked how to determine the optimal stopping points for each stage in three-stage extraction. This time, we'll continue exploring when to perform these stagings during three-stage extraction. Different filter cup sizes/shapes and coffee grounds amounts affect...
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Does Tapping the Dripper Affect Coffee Extraction?
A single coffee bean is composed of various flavor compounds, including acidity, sweetness, bitterness, aroma, and more, each dissolving at different rates—some quickly, others slowly. To achieve a pot of coffee that captures all these delightful flavors without exhibiting the negative taste of over-extraction, we draw upon our previous brewing experience, perfecting the "fundamentals"
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What Causes Pour-Over Coffee Blockage and Poor Water Flow? Why Shouldn't You Tap the Dripper? How Do Fine Particles Cause Coffee Over-Extraction?
Like FrontStreet Coffee, many friends develop a temporary "perfectionism" when brewing coffee! When they notice irregularities during the process, they always want to step in and "fix" them to make everything neat and tidy. For example, during the preparation steps before brewing coffee—wetting the filter paper! When the filter paper doesn't completely adhere to the dripper
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What Is the Ideal Grind Size for Pour-Over Coffee? How to Determine If Your Coffee Grind Is Correct
Grind size has always been a challenging parameter to articulate in words. When discussing coffee grind size, people typically use visual comparison methods, scale reference systems, including the sieve calibration method used by FrontStreet Coffee, all of which have certain limitations. Visual comparison method, as we commonly refer to it, is essentially comparing the size to coarse sugar crystals.
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