What is ground coffee?

Mar, 2014 by

When coffee beans have been roasted they are then subjected to grinding and crushing, the result is ground coffee. When the ground coffee in Chicago has hot water run through it, the compounds found in the coffee are extracted, the result is a delicious cup of brewed coffee. Coffee can be processed in a number of different ways to prepare it for brewing; the important thing is to perfectly match the grinding method to the brewing method to guarantee that the finished result gives excellent flavor. A common grinding method is the use of a burr grinder. A burr grinder crushes the bean into small pieces of uniform size. Blade grinders chop the beans and in some cases the beans are run through rollers or even pounded in a mortar. The objective of preparing...

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