Beginners must know! Five key points to pay attention to when using a bean grinder!

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Make coffee, many people like to grind their own coffee beans, while carefully grinding, while carefully savoring the aroma of coffee, their own coffee, the taste is absolutely very different from the taste of instant coffee. So, can you grind your own coffee beans, too? Today, the editor will come to share with you a few small places that you need to pay attention to when using the bean grinder!

Five key points to pay attention to when using a bean grinder!

First, start the bean grinder and then put the coffee beans

Start the bean grinder before grinding the coffee beans, or put the beans first and then start the grinding machine to grind the beans, the difference between the two may affect the flavor, but it is recommended that the bean grinder should be turned on first and then put the coffee beans, the fuse of the bean grinder is less likely to burn, and it doesn't hurt the knife head.

Second, different cooking equipment is suitable for different grinding degrees.

According to the thickness of coffee beans, the grinding methods can be divided into three types: rough grinding, medium grinding and fine grinding. Use the appropriate grinding method according to the coffee utensils. Grinding coffee powder with appropriate thickness is very important to make a good cup of coffee, because the extraction of water-soluble substances in coffee powder has its ideal time, if the powder is very fine and brewed for a long time, resulting in excessive extraction, the coffee may be very bitter and lose its aroma. On the other hand, if the powder is coarse and boiled too fast, resulting in insufficient extraction, the coffee will be tasteless because it is too late to dissolve the water-soluble substance in the powder. Generally speaking, the shorter the cooking time, the finer the grinding powder; the longer the cooking time, the thicker the grinding powder.

The time required for Italian-style coffee making is very short, so the coffee powder is the finest, and the coffee powder is as fine as flour.

It takes more than a minute for the siphon pot to brew the coffee. The coffee powder is ground in medium thickness, like fine salt.

French pressure pot coffee takes a long time to make, so the coffee powder is the thickest, like grains on a shell beach.

Third, "wash and grind" before use, clean after use

Usually there is a little coffee powder left in the knife head of the bean grinder, which may be mixed with the residual powder during grinding, so you can put a few fresh coffee beans to "wash and grind" when you turn on the machine. The ground powder will have fine powder or silver skin. if there is too much fine powder, it is easy to clog the filter paper. it is suggested that the ground powder can be screened with a powder sieve to reduce the astringent taste and miscellaneous taste of coffee.

In addition, coffee beans contain oil, so the bean grinder must be clean after grinding, and you can regularly use a brush and blow ball to clean the bean grinder, otherwise the grease will accumulate scale, and it will smell stale over a long time, even if it is a high-grade bean. it was ground into a strange-smelling powder. It is better for a bean grinder to grind only the same kind of beans, so there will be no problem of taste.

Fourth, coffee beans with different roasting degrees will also affect the grinding results.

Because shallow baked beans are hard and compact in structure, the powder ground out of the same degree of grinding may be thicker than deep baking. Moreover, the extraction rates of beans with different baking degrees are also different, and the degree of grinding required is also different. To put it simply, light-roasted coffee beans need to be ground finely, while deep-roasted coffee beans need to be ground a little thicker. Therefore, never use only 3.5 Pegasus for the rest of your life.

Fifth, when grinding beans, try to weigh the coffee electronically instead of using a spoon as a measuring tool.

Manual beginners can choose an electronic scale that can time and weigh at the same time. When brewing coffee by hand, in addition to the temperature will affect the flavor of coffee, the ratio of water to coffee, brewing time is also the focus. Electronic claims to be able to accurately grasp the number of grams and seconds of brewing, brewing coffee no longer need to feel, cost-effective, absolutely necessary for home coffee brewing!

When grinding with a bean grinder, remember not to grind too much at one time, just enough powder for one time, because the longer the bean grinder is used at one time, the easier it is to get hot, which indirectly causes the coffee beans to be heated in the grinding process and causes the aroma to be released in advance, which will affect the aroma of the brewed coffee.

The most important thing to grind coffee beans is to drink them now.

The ideal time to grind coffee is to grind it before brewing. Only the amount of coffee you need is top grade. Because ground coffee is easy to oxidize and lose its flavor, especially without proper storage, coffee powder is also easy to change flavor.

Finally, the editor reminds you that if you really don't have a bean grinder around you, you can take a small amount of coffee beans and ask the store to help you grind them. It's best to pack them in small portions, but don't grind them one at a time and put them in the container. The flavor can easily run away.

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