Improve Your Coffee With Burr Coffee Grinders

When people think of truly great tasting coffee they usually think about a beverage that's smooth, rich and free from off-flavors or bitterness. There are times when people can achieve such a quality using their home machines and many other times when they cannot. They often wonder why they can't achieve a level of consistency and many go to painstaking lengths to improve the quality of their coffee by purchasing expensive machines or fancy coffee beans. What these people don't know is that despite their best efforts, achieving consistently great coffee is about more than the type of machine you use. While the type of beans you purchase can certainly have an impact on the quality of your coffee, the more significant factor is how they are ground.

Despite what many of you might think - brewing outstanding coffee is not rocket science; rather, it's all about using the right water temperature along with freshly roasted coffee beans that have been properly ground. Among these 3 criteria, perhaps the most important is the quality of the grind. After all, even the freshest beans won't produce the type of quality you're looking for if they are ground using an inferior device. Speaking of inferior devices, one of the worst decisions that you can make involves the use of a blade or "whirly-bird" grinder. These grinders can be found in kitchens across America, but not because they're superior. People tend to purchase blade grinders because they're cheap and it makes people think that they're doing the right thing by grinding their own beans. The reason that these grinders aren't recommended is that they produce many different particle sizes, including a fair amount of dust. This dust is a major contributor to bitter coffee, which I personally cannot stand.

Fortunately, avoiding dust and the subsequent bitterness that it causes is relatively simple - simply use a burr coffee grinder to grind your beans. Burr coffee grinders are superior in every way to blade grinders because they are able to produce a consistent and uniform grind. Many burr grinders also allow the user to adjust the coarseness of the grind, which is important when brewing different types of coffee drinks. Although these grinders are typically a bit more expensive than blade grinders, the quality of coffee that they allow you to achieve makes them well worth it. You should plan to spend about $80.00 for a quality, entry-level conical burr grinder.