Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[DaveReading]

I can rotate the feeder round a scale. I use it at the coarsest setting. I tried a finer grind but prefer the flavour when coarsely ground.

As a general rule, the optimum grind will differ depending on your coffee-making technique and equipment - a relatively coarse grind for filter or cafetiere users, much finer for mocha or espresso.

 

[raleighnut]

St Patrick was a Scot who was kidnapped and taken to Ireland as a slave.

I always thought he was Irish, at least he did most of his work in Ireland

 

[ColinJ]

As a general rule, the optimum grind will differ depending on your coffee-making technique and equipment - a relatively coarse grind for filter or cafetiere users, much finer for mocha or espresso.

I read that before I started using the grinder but didn't really believe that it would make much difference. Then I tried a finer grind and didn't like it. Now I use the coarsest grind setting and am happy with that.

I buy strength 3 beans from Aldi. I might give the 4 and 5 another go but previously I found those a bit too strong.

I am not really a coffee aficionado but I do enjoy a pot most afternoons.

 

[Jameshow]

It has various settings but I just use it manually. I press a button and it grinds for about 5 seconds. I have to that about 5 times to get through the full scoop. I can see when all the beans have been done but I usually just listen. I can hear when the last of the beans have gone through.


I can rotate the feeder round a scale. I use it at the coarsest setting. I tried a finer grind but prefer the flavour when coarsely ground.


Yes. The beans are fed in from above and go through a pair of concentric slotted metal grinders. The ground coffee falls through and down into the container below.

THIS is the grinder.

Ha - I have just read this in the blurb...

• [𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜-𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗖𝗢𝗙𝗘𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥] This coffee bean grinder uses anti-static technology to minimize static cling of coffee grounds. The anti-static powder container makes less cup wall residue and clean countertop.

It ain't quite anti-static enough!

This threads grinding me down!🤣

 

[ColinJ]

This threads grinding me down!🤣

I object, m'lud - grounds for dismissal!!

 

[Dogtrousers]

@ColinJ You need to ground your grounds.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And here was me thinking this was about a certain gay website too...

 

[ColinJ]

Ha - I have just read this in the blurb...

• [𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜-𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗖𝗢𝗙𝗘𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥] This coffee bean grinder uses anti-static technology to minimize static cling of coffee grounds. The anti-static powder container makes less cup wall residue and clean countertop.

It ain't quite anti-static enough!

I think that I might have been a bit unfair on that anti-static technology!

I just made a pot of coffee and remembered to grind the beans first rather than later in the process. Leaving them standing in the container for 5 minutes was enough to almost completely drain away the static charge.

Most of the grounds emptied easily into the pot. One tap on the side of the container loosened most of what was left.

 

[Chris S]

Spanish TV really is like the Fast Show.

 

[ColinJ]

Spanish TV really is like the Fast Show.

¿Scorchio?

 

[Dogtrousers]

The Pogo stick is named after its inventors, Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, from Germany

 

[Tenkaykev]

The Pogo stick is named after its inventors, Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, from Germany

" Pogoing " is a term applied to a phenomena that can lead to rocket failure.

 

[Tenkaykev]

When clicking the " recent posts " tab and following it to this thread, you end up on the first page. This can lead you down a rabbit hole and you may unwittingly be replying to a message that's many years old.

 

[Profpointy]

Ahem ... incorrect
The freshly ground coffee is sticky because the grinding releases the oils in the beans.
Maybe you did grind a bit less than your usual, so less oils released?
If your grinder has a plastic container I guess any static electricity is ... grounded

I believe static electricity is very much a thing associated with (coffee) grinding. I seem to recall my grinder has some kind of grounding wire or antistatic plastic inside it to mitigate the "problem"

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

Rabbits are immune to the venom of Sydney funnel-web spiders. 🤯

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lnp3ny4wro