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Coffee Grind Size Chart

Main Contents

A. Intro To Coffee Grind Size
B. Perfect coffee grounds mean great coffee
C. What you are about to read is important knowledge for making coffee
D. What does underextracted coffee taste like?
E. Blade Grinder or Burr Grinder
F. Common coffee grind sizes and their uses

A. Intro To Coffee Grind Size

Most home coffee lovers fail to brew great coffee before they even start. They invested in the best coffee grinder they could find, only to find that it still produced average-tasting coffee. The worst part: They don’t know why and it’s driving them crazy!

B. Perfect coffee grounds mean great coffee

The backbone of good coffee = perfect coffee grounds. Don’t underestimate the importance of sanding.

We’ll tell you where it went wrong and what else you need to know when grinding coffee. By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll be making the best coffee of your life.

First, we’ll take a quick look at the different grind sizes, when you should use each size, and what settings you can use with your coffee grinder to achieve them. It goes without saying that you must find the most suitable coffee grinder for your needs.

C. What you are about to read is important knowledge for making coffee

Even if you have the best coffee drip machine in the world and the best coffee beans, it’s useless if you don’t know how to brew it. It’s time to understand about coffee brewing. By doing so, you can avoid under-extracting or over-extracting.

Your goal when choosing a grind: to get the perfect aroma from your coffee. Too little will result in insufficient extraction, and too much will result in over-extraction.

Grind too coarse = Under Extracting. This is because not enough flavour is extracted from the ground coffee.
Coffee powder too fine = extraction too strong. This is when you extract too much flavour from your coffee – and it becomes overpowering and unpleasant

D. What does under or Over extracted coffee taste like?

UNDER EXTRACTED

Sour
Acidic
Salty

OVER EXTRACTED

Bitter
Hollow – A lack any notable coffee bean flavours

Yes! You may need to adjust the brewing time, water temperature or grind according to your preference:

FLAVOR	BREW TIME	WATER TEMP	GRIND
Sour	Increase	Decrease	Finer
Bitter	Decrease	Hotter	Coarser

Coffee Grind Size Chart

E. Blade Grinder or Burr Grinder

Before you continue reading: If you’ve ever used a blade grinder for coffee beans, you’ve made the most common coffee grinding mistake. Do not grind coffee beans with a knife grinder. This is worse than buying pre-ground coffee.

First of all, consistency is the key to making great coffee. If the small powders are not all the same size, some will be over-extracted and others under-extracted, and the result will be: Bad coffee. You can shake your knife grinder around as much as you want, but you’ll never get 100% consistency, but if you’re stuck with only a knife grinder available, there are things you can do, but be prepared.

Apart from the obvious lack of consistency, there is another danger with bladed coffee grinders: Bladed coffee grinders generate heat and friction.

In addition to their apparent lack of consistency, burr coffee grinders have another flaw: They can only operate by spinning extremely fast, which creates heat and friction. As you might guess, this heat and friction is bad news. This means your coffee has been heated so it no longer tastes fresh, and the end result is overcooked coffee.

That’s too much to summarize:

Choose a burr grinder instead of a blade grinder. It doesn’t matter if you have a manual coffee grinder or an electric grinder, as long as using burrs when grinding.
It is difficult to grind evenly with a blade grinder. Uniform coffee grounds make coffee extraction easy.

F. Common coffee grind sizes and their uses

You can brew a delicious cup of coffee with a variety of brewing methods using just the seven grind sizes below.

You can’t just choose one grind size and use it for any purpose; Certain grinds are best for certain coffee makers.

Yes, you will find that some coffee brewing methods come in a variety of grind sizes. This is because for certain coffee brewing methods, you can control the brew result by grind size + brew time.

GRIND SIZE	BREWING METHOD
Extra coarse	Cold Brew Coffee, Cowboy Coffee
Coarse	French Press, Percolator, Coffee Cupping
Medium-coarse	Chemex coffee maker, Clever Dripper, Cafe Solo Brewer
Medium	Cone-shaped Pour-over Brewers,Flat Bottom Drip Coffee Machines, Siphon Coffee, Aeropress (with 3+ minute brew time)
Medium-fine	Cone-shaped Pour-over Brewers, Aeropress (with 2-3 minute brew time)
Fine	Espresso, Moka Pot (Stovetop Espresso Maker),Aeropress (with 1 minute brew time)
Extra Fine	Turkish coffee

It’s time for you to brew some Specialty Coffee.

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