Seven Steps to a Better Cup of Coffee

If you’re like most coffee drinkers, you probably think you’re getting a great cup of coffee already. However, the odds are that these eleven steps can likely still improve the quality:

1. Use Coffee Beans Quality

Stay out of the food shops! All right, that’s a profound statement, but don’t buy coffee beans at the grocery shop. Nobody knows when it was roasted, which is an essential point in the freshness of the coffee. These beans, whether in gravity bins (especially worn!) or bags (usually close!), are known for being stale. Nobody knows how long the beans were in the bags or containers. Buy coffee from an unrelated coffee shop or a handcrafted coffee roaster to verify the date of roasting. This is the only way you know that you buy newly roasted gourmet coffee beans. They’re well known and strive for the best quality, freshly roasted coffee.

2. Properly store. 

Remove your boobs from the original bag and put them in a container as airtight as Tupperware or Glad Ware. The more the container is opaque, the better the harmful light. Your coffee beans will deteriorate, and your last cup of coffee will taste stale if you store it in a glass jar on the sink.

Do not store in the fridge or freezer. Would you please keep them in an airtight container like a cupboard or garage in a cool, dry, and dark place? There are many smells in refrigerators, and coffee is very porous. It acts like a sponge for fragrances, whether it’s soil or bean. Freezers can cause burning of the freezer and crack and losing the flavor of flavor oils. These oils are the place of taste. Storage in the freezer freezes the condensation of the surface every time the coffee is removed from the freezer.

Excess moisture will make your beans stale more quickly and shorten your coffee’s lifetime, so a cool, dry, and dark place is recommended for storage.

3. Grind and Grind Proper Just Before Use

The grind of the coffee is essential. Your coffee should be ground according to the type of brewing method that you use. Single service and coarse for French press, fine for espresso. The intermittent matter but, for most self-drip producers, your grind should be only finer than rough, which means that the effort should be similar to typical bread crumbs if you rub it between your fingers. Espresso grinds should feel between sugar and powdered sugar somewhere. In addition, your coffee will get less friction through a grinder than a typical blade grinder, and your heroes will have less chance of becoming scorched during grinding.

Coffee is very porous and absorbs very quickly smells and air (oxygen). Oxygen is going to make your coffee taste bad! The longer your coffee is ground and not used, the more you have to slow down and make a bad cup.

4. Weigh your coffee properly before you grind it.

You should use about —75 oz. (22g) of coffee beans every 8oz. of cold water to make a sound, well-rounded taste of coffee. You can taste +/-, but this is a good point of departure.

5. Precise Temperature Purified Water

It is recommended to water fresh, clean tap (purified is the best) or quality spring water. Do not use odorless mineral water, distilled water, or tap water. Your coffee will taste bad. The water should be ready to brew between 195-205 degrees. This isn’t easy to accomplish with most home brewers since the heating elements are neither heated nor reliable to heat to the right temperature. Good home coffee brewers will cost about $200 but are worth much longer. Try the available single-cup pour-over methods or other brewing methods, like French press or siphon, if you can. The difference in taste is remarkable. Google looks for more information on each plan.