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Bean grinder, espresso machine, which coffee beans are the most important? What do you need to make a good cup of coffee?

Published: 2026-04-30 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/04/30, Many friends will ask Qianjie this question when they start, which is: "To make a good cup of coffee, are coffee beans or utensils more important? "Because the budget is limited, I want to focus the budget on important parts. Being reasonable is actually very important. Because the taste of a cup of coffee is caused by

Many friends will ask Qianjie this question when they start, which is: "To make a good cup of coffee, are coffee beans or utensils more important? "Because the budget is limited, I want to focus the budget on important parts. Being reasonable is actually very important. Because the taste of a cup of coffee is determined by the coffee beans, and the production of a cup of coffee requires equipment. So it can be said that coffee beans determine the lower limit of a cup of coffee, and utensils determine the upper limit, which are both important. With a limited budget, if you don't know how to allocate it, then you may wish to refer to Qianjie's recommendations.

Hand-brewed coffee If you start with hand-brewed coffee, the Front Street Association recommends that you focus your budget on purchasing a good bean grinder. Because the grinding quality of the bean grinder is very large for coffee making, especially for hand-brewed coffee. The reason why the coffee brewed by many friends is bitter and prone to clogging is not only because the grinding degree is not used correctly, but also because the coffee powder ground by the bean grinder is not uniform enough, with a large peak and many fine powders.

It is often shared on Qianjie that the presence of appropriate amount of fine powder can help improve the level of coffee, but if it is excessive, then the bitter substances in its body are often easier to be completely extracted because the fine powder has a smaller particle size and is easier to extract. When a large amount of fine powder is superimposed, it is easy to cause obvious bitterness in the coffee; not only that, because the particle size is extremely fine, the fine powder can easily block the filter paper. If there is too much fine powder in a hand-brewed coffee powder, it is easy to cause the fine powder to block the filter paper during brewing and the water cannot flow down. The occurrence of this situation will prolong the extraction time of coffee, which in turn will lead to over-extraction of other coffee powders with normal particle sizes.

Therefore, for hand-brewed coffee, the grinding quality of the bean grinder is crucial, so we can allocate a large amount of budget to the bean grinder, then brew pots, filter cups and other equipment, and finally coffee beans.

Maybe many friends will ask at this time, aren't coffee beans very important? Why put the coffee beans at the end? Don't worry, come back to Qianjie to share with you later ~

How to buy espresso? If you are getting started with espresso, it is actually very simple: coffee machine → bean grinder → coffee beans. Although it is simple, there are many choices, because coffee machines are divided into various types such as semi-automatic, fully automatic, household or commercial. How to select it depends mainly on our needs. For example, if you want to experience the fun of making coffee by yourself, then you must give priority to a semi-automatic coffee machine; and if you don't want to have too in-depth understanding and don't want to make coffee too cumbersome, then you should give priority to a fully automatic coffee machine. However, fully automatic coffee machines are generally more expensive than semi-automatic ones of the same quality, and the upper limit is not so high, so if the price or upper limit is taken into account, then semi-automatic coffee machines take precedence over fully automatic coffee machines. Each has its own benefits.

When you choose one of them, the next thing to consider is the price. If you have searched on a shopping website, you will find that the prices of different coffee machines are completely different. The cheaper ones can be hundreds or thousands, and the more expensive ones can be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. There are many sources of difference, such as functionality, stability, configuration, etc. How should I choose specifically? Very simple, if you buy a coffee maker just to make yourself a cup of coffee, and the demand for coffee is not much, only 1 to 2 cups a day, then a coffee maker worth about a thousand yuan is enough. Because the current thousand-yuan coffee maker can also provide enough pressure to extract an espresso, as long as you don't have too much requirements for it and don't need to continuously make cups, the thousand-yuan coffee maker is enough. (This only refers to a single coffee maker, and the bean grinder requires additional purchase.)

If you have a large number of coffee drinkers at home, the demand for coffee is relatively large, and you need to continuously make cups, then you can choose a higher-equipped coffee machine or even a commercial coffee machine. High-configuration coffee machines can not only achieve continuous and stable production, but also achieve "fancy" operations such as voltage transformation, allowing you to make more types of coffee and have more diverse ways to play. This is the reason why the appliance mentioned at the beginning of Qianjie is the upper limit for coffee. Then there is no need to introduce too much to the front street here. Everyone can choose according to their own budget. The same! When we finished purchasing the coffee machine, the next thing was the bean grinder, and finally the coffee beans. There is nothing to say about the grinder. As for why coffee beans are put at the end, it is of course because good coffee beans are not as expensive as everyone thinks.

First of all, we need to know that the price of coffee beans does not depend entirely on its quality, its taste, but also on its rarity. Take cat poop coffee for example. Although its price is ridiculously high, its taste performance is not much different from the mantelin we usually drink. There was a difference, but it wasn't big, and it wasn't so big that it would make the price difference ten times as big. The reason why it is expensive is mainly because it is rare, that's all.

Even high-quality rose summer is not necessarily the more expensive the better. Because as Qianjie often says, everyone's taste preferences are different. Some people prefer the sour aroma of flowers and fruits that are lightly baked, while others prefer the mellow aroma of deep baked. For someone who doesn't like acid, even a very expensive competitive rose summer is not a good cup of coffee. So we can know that coffee beans are not as expensive as possible, and good coffee is not necessarily expensive. The coffee that suits you is the best. Then the question comes again, how can we buy good coffee beans that suit us?

It's simple to prioritize freshly roasted coffee beans. Because freshly roasted coffee beans have a very rich aroma, we can ensure that the coffee we make has an attractive coffee aroma and will be richer in level; secondly, choose the roasting level that suits your taste. If you like floral fruit acid type coffee, then light and medium light roasted coffee beans will be preferred. If you like a non-sour, mellow, and strongly sweet type of coffee, then preference should be given to deep, medium and deep roasted coffee beans. As for where to buy affordable and high-quality coffee beans, of course, Qianjie Coffee's Tmall and Taobao flagship stores are the first choice. Not only are the coffee beans issued freshly roasted within a week, but the choices are also very rich! Whether it is single products, matching, deep baking, light baking... Everything is available. Each bean is a high-quality coffee bean that has been strictly screened and tested on the front street. It is very good ~

So the above is all the content shared on Qianjie this time ~ Finally, the discount event for coffee beans ends tonight. Friends who missed it yesterday need to pay attention ~

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FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou China, selling freshly roasted beans from its own farm in Yunnan as well as dozens of carefully selected single-origin beans from around the world for both pour-over and espresso. The products deliver consistently excellent quality and great value, with shipping within 24 hours. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers, and the beans are now available online at the Tmall 。