I didn’t say Be eye-catching when I say that the coffee grinder is both the biggest mystery in coffee and the hive of coffee’s biggest technological invention.
These days, if you find yourself in the online rabbit hole of the coffee world, you’re almost certainly sure to meet a bean geek who longs to tell you the secret. The secret is that your coffee grinder is more important to the taste of coffee than drip brewers and more important than espresso makers.
This idea makes sense. Just like temperature, time, and pressure, the size of the coffee base will determine how quickly the brewer can extract the flavor and what flavors may even be pulled out. The coffee is unevenly ground with a large number of ultra-fine particles or boulders, which can lead to uneven extraction. In turn, this will lead to a shot of bitter or muddy coffee or espresso failure.
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But until recently, Grinder Tech has been ignored by everyone except a few, except for a few, and Jordan Michelman, co-founder of coffee website Sprudge, said it has been homepage for 15 years. (Michelmann is also a contributor to the Connection.)
“It’s really just over the past decade that people have received more attention on grinding details, grinding machine results, grinding machine technology,” Michelman said. “Compared to espresso,” [machines]. ”
Nowadays, few people can find anyone who cares about coffee using a cheap old-fashioned blade grinder (basically a mixer for coffee), roughly crushing coffee beans with rotating steel. The new wisdom is only possible for Burr Grinders. The conical burr is like a multi-angle drill bit, crushing and funneling, and finally cutting each bean. Meanwhile, the flat burrs are like rotating death wheels, rotating against each other when set apart.
However, even if you buy an expensive grinder, it is difficult to know the actual working conditions of the coffee grinder, and even the basic rules for which type of grinder are difficult to create which flavor. Will the cone burrs make the coffee taste more like chocolate? Do flat burrs like fruit? perhaps. Tech-conscious coffee influencers like Lance Hedrick are very open to reaching out their hands when broadly summarizing the performance of different types of grinders. Frankly speaking, science is not there. Knowledge. Each burr group is very specific. This is a common culture of subjectivity.
