Coffee Grind Spreadsheets
RyanFodder
Detroit, MI Icrontian
in Food & Drink
@primesuspect posted this on facebook. I'm curious what levels of geekery you have gone through for your coffee.
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My level of geekery stopped at purchasing a variable temperature electric kettle, a handful of brewing methods, a handful of grinders and trying things until I landed on a taste that I like. Haven't stepped up to spreadsheets yet... but my current extraction methods are as follows.
Aeropress + Porlex Mini burr mill for single cup brewing
Bodum Chambord French Press + Capresso Infinity mill for making a pot
Both my mills have been dialed in over time to the correct size and only get adjusted if absolutely necessary.
I have a hand mill I use at work, with my french press, electric kettle, probe thermometer and egg timer. 52g of coarse grind for 600g of water, heated to 195F for 3:30.
I've found my Corningware electric percolator makes an excellent pot of coffee running at ~90V AC from my 20A variac.
I don't drink coffee.
I've failed this Icrontic.
I may or may not have seen a device that will be going on sale later this year that downloads the weight, grind, brew time, and water temperature instructions via WiFi from the roaster for as perfect a cup as you can get. It was awesome.
For french press, I was tracking water temp (estimate) and amount of coffee. Grind was fairly limited since french press.
"I'll have a coffee, please."
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Apparently this was my Comment Number 2500. Lul.
I wing that mother.
And here is the kickstarter for it. I'm getting one
500 bucks MSRP for a single cup brewer? You craycray
Perhaps. It was a pretty phenomenal machine to see in action.
If I were to get a machine to brew anything for me, it'd be the PicoBrew.
You forget, adding a mobile app to control it automatically doubles the value!
Can you also order a R.O.B. to bring the coffee to you
So, I freeze my coffee (when its pre-ground in batches at least.) Because I'm poor and can't keep fresh coffee around.
Up until today, that made sense to me: the coffee degasses as it sits (loses carbon dioxide, etc). This is a physical process which would slow down with temperatures being lower.
So, it was made a point to me that it doesn't make a difference / makes the coffee worse. Point of reference was made to ask coffee roaster (who has a bias to make you want to buy more coffee, more often.)
I did some googling. Came across this article which I thought was interesting, and had to share.
http://www.home-barista.com/store-coffee-in-freezer.html
TL;DR: tasters couldn't tell the difference from fresh and 4 week old (frozen) coffee frozen directly after roasting then dethawed for testing in a controlled taste test.
And here I found out what I'm doing wrong. Its the repeated freezing / dethawing that causes damage (introduces water) to the coffee. Luckily, I'm not leaving it out for long!
Honestly, it tastes fine to me either way, so I'm not too picky on my coffee tastes apparently.
Its the repeated freezing / dethawing that causes damage (introduces water) to the coffee. Luckily, I'm not leaving it out for long!
Got access to a vacuum sealer? If so you could make much smaller packages out of the larger bag. Of course if you're just leaving all the grounds in the freezer until brew time it may not matter.
Well, Dustin canceled the Bruvelo kickstarter, due to some bad numbers issues from manufacturers.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003294547/bruvelo-smart-wifi-connected-pour-over-coffee-brew/posts/1045225
for anyone who is curious. Cool guy, smart idea and I hope to see it come back soon.