Do you want the coffee beans to be coarse or fine? How many grams of beans do you need for a cup of coffee?

More and more friends like to drink coffee, and everyone wants to experience the fun of making their own coffee. But coffee making also needs some professional knowledge and techniques, and if you want to make a good cup of coffee, you need to keep trying and practicing. So first of all, how to grind coffee beans correctly, coarse or fine? How many grams of beans do you need for a cup of coffee?

The process of grinding roasted coffee beans into powder is called crushing. The ideal time for grinding coffee is before cooking, because ground coffee is easy to oxidize and lose its flavor, if it is not properly stored, the coffee powder is easy to change flavor and cannot be cooked into mellow coffee.

The thickness of coffee powder is very important for making a cup of coffee. Because the extraction of water-soluble substances in coffee powder has its ideal time, if the powder is very fine and cooked for a long time, resulting in over-extraction, the coffee may be very bitter and lose its aroma; on the contrary, if the powder is very coarse and cooked too fast, resulting in insufficient extraction, then the coffee will be tasteless, because it is too late to dissolve the water-soluble substance in the powder. About 28% of a coffee bean is 30% soluble, and the rest is fiber (coffee grounds). But either extract 28% or get the best cup of coffee. The best extraction range given by several boutique coffee associations is 18% Mel 22%.

When grinding beans, the size of the powder depends on the way it is cooked. Generally speaking, the shorter the cooking time, the finer the ground powder; the longer the cooking time, the thicker the ground powder. In the actual way of cooking, the Espresso machine takes a very short time to make coffee, so it is ground the finest (as fine as flour).

To put it simply, the grinding methods of coffee beans can be divided into coarse, medium and fine grinding according to their size, as shown in the following table:

one

Fine grinding

The particles are as fine as sugar.

two

Medium grinding

Particles are like granulated sugar mixed with white sugar.

three

Rough grinding

The granules are as thick as coarse sugar.

Very fine powder-suitable for espresso

Fine powder-suitable for hanging ears

Medium and fine powder-most suitable for hand flushing

Chinese powder-beginners are advised to practice hand flushing with Chinese powder first.

The coarse powder-method pressing pot is suitable for

How many grams of beans does it take to make a cup of coffee?

This proportion is not fixed, and everyone can adjust it according to their own preferences. In general, the ratio of powder to water can be controlled between 1:10 and 1:20. For example, 10 grams of powder, you can mix 100 ml to 200 ml of water to extract (boil), the amount of water depends on your taste for shade. If you want to make a cup of 350 ml water, you can use 20 grams of coffee powder or 30 grams of coffee powder.