@chef_gygglz 🔸🔸#repost The grind! When your only ingredients are coffee beans & water, the quality of product, and how you treat them becomes vastly important. Grinding the coffee bean releases its flavor compounds, essential oils and aromas. Consistency is the name of the game when it comes to grinding, the more even your grounds are the more efficient and clean your extraction of those flavors into the water is going to be. Your grinder is only as good as its consistency, that's why burr grinders are preferred over the propeller grinders. The burr grinder crushes the bean between two plates or conical burrs producing the grind. A propeller grinder has a whirling blade that chops the spinning beans; the problem with this being that you lack any real control over the grind size. Fine particles are created that sit in the bottom while you're waiting for large parts to get chopped to size. So you have fine coffee dust, and large "boulders" that extract at different timeframes. Your fine particles creating bitter flavors while you're waiting for the larger pieces to extract their flavors fully. Different grind sizes are suited for different extraction methods (types of brewing). French press is best suited for a coarse grind, considering that the grounds sit fully submerged in the water, and the filter used isn't as fine as a paper one. This method produces a slightly thicker more full bodied cup of coffee, considering more particulate & solids are getting through the porous filter. Sometimes you'll find a slight sludge at the bottom of your cup if your grind is too fine. I typically get a slightly darker color (particulates that have settled) of coffee near the bottom of my cup that isn't thick at all, I just swirl it into the remainder of my cup and finish. #gygglzvittles #califood #calicooking #homemade #homecooking #chef #topchef #bayareachef #food #foodie #foodgasm #foodporn #foodie #instafood #coffee #coffeetime #beverage #breakfast #fit #california #bayarea #sanfrancisco #frenchpress #fun #happy #love #tasty #yum #yummy

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