No complaints

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Couple things here. No complaints about your coffee? That’s my kind of gal! 

I complain about my own coffee. But I’m probably just a malcontent. 

There are many things that can (and do) go wrong with coffee from way back to when and what and where the farmer planted the seeds, all the way up to grinding and brewing. Freshness, for instance. In my opinion, coffee should be consumed within a couple weeks of being roasted. Most roasters don’t do that. Coffee goes stale (rancid coffee oils) and tastes yucky. Speaking of roasters, each one roasts coffee differently. Well, I say that. They used to. Now 99% of specialty roasters are using a computer program in order to ensure their coffee tastes just as bad as their competitors’. My coffee tastes different, for better or worse.

But Lisa, we must talk about this blade grinder. Blade grinders should never have been used for coffee. They’re actually spice grinders. And I wouldn’t even put my spices in one. If you have a pepper mill, that’s a burr grinder. And if burrs are good enough for peppercorns, they’re good enough for coffee. It’s a much better mechanism, producing ground coffee specific to the coarseness or fineness needed for the particular brewing style. Kind of like how you can have cracked pepper on your steak au poivre or finely ground pepper in your quiche. That’s what burrs do that blades cannot. They sell manual and electric burr grinders specifically made for coffee. That, in a nutshell, will make your coffee taste better. 

Anyway, off my soap box - er, coffee box?