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Just how much ground coffee do I need for x amount of coffee?
a. Whatever seems right to you.
b. It may change slightly from coffee to coffee and according to
freshness and varietal.
c. What the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) has
to say:
A cup is defined as 6 ounces of water before brewing. This will
produce 5.33 ounces of brewed coffee. Or 125 ml & 110 ml for
Euro style coffee makers
The SCAA defines 10 grams or .36 oz per cup as the proper
measure for brewed coffee if using the American standards. If
using Euro standards the measure is 7 grams per 125 ml.
To further confuse things I will add a few more measures:
3.75 oz per 1/2 gallon
55 grams per liter
2.25 gallons per 1 lb.
If you want to know more check the SCAA's web page at
www.scaa.org.
d. The easy answer for most home coffee brewing is 2 Tbs. per 6
oz of water. A standard coffee measure should be 2 Tbs. Be
warned some coffee measures deviate from the 2 Tbs. Standard..
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coffee weight
I was reading this thread and thought the weights per tablespoon were way off. I just ground 3 batches, 1 coarse for french press, 1 medium fine for drip, and 1 extra fine for espresso. I weighed them using a digital scale that is calibrated and accurate to .01 grams. The results were, 2.8,3.1, and 3,3 grams per level tablespoon. I use 185ML (roughly 6 Imperial OZ per cup) and 1 tablespoon per cup.
Whoever said "If there are
Whoever said "If there are 15 grams per tablespoon...."
Coffee is roughly 5 grams per level cooking/measured tablespoon, not 15.
Ground Coffee per Cup
Two tablespoons per 6 oz cup is awfully strong, unless you really, really want to make yourself a brutal, bitter, caffeine-monster of a drink.
If there are 15 grams to a (flat) tablespoon, for instance, and the SCAA standard is 10 grams per 6 oz drink, then a typical mug of coffee (i.e. 12 oz) will need 20 grams of grounds -- or one heaping tablespoon of ground coffee.
That's for drip-brewed coffee, too. From my experience filterless brewing methods (French Press, Vacuum Syphon, Percolators etc.) require even less grounds per cup.
Strength of Brew
As stated in the FAQ the amount of grounds you use is primarily a mater of taste. If you like week over extracted coffee you can get by with much less coffee. But if you like a good cup of “coffee house style†coffee you are looking for something in the range of about 2 teaspoons (volume) or 10 grams (weight) per cup. This is what I use but that has not always been the case. I used less in the past. I encourage people to experiment with the amount of coffee they use. You may prefer less coffee per cup. Feel free. Personally the last thing I want to have is a weak cup but that is exactly what some people prefer.
If you are using canned coffee (yes I know the worst coffees no longer comes in cans but I can’t think of another euphemism for cheap supermarket coffee) you probably will want to use less because it is actually produced with the intent of being over extracted. But I have not experimented with this. A good strong cup of cheap blend may be better than a weak cup of cheap blend. I would also concede that flavored coffees may be better is brewed slightly weaker. I think that will be primarily an issue of how strong the flavoring agent is. If the flavoring agent is very strong the artificial flavoring may be overpowering in a properly brewed cup. I can’t get past the chemical smell of most flavored coffees so I won’t be trying any experiments.
If you like coffee with
If you like coffee with flavor but do not like the chemical smells of flavored coffee, try flavoring after brewing or flavored creamers. Really delicious!!!!!!!!
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Submitted by:PigeonMan
Shouldn't the 12th word of the 3rd sentence read "10 g." instead of "10 mg"?
-- And here you probably thought that nobody REALLY reads this stuff!
-- KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK -- IT IS TRULY APPRECIATED!
10 g would be some truely
10 g would be some truely nasty coffee. thanks for the catch.
how much ground coffee per cup
Thank you for solving what always seems to be a difficult answer to what should be a simple question
Starbucks and White Castle
Starbucks and White Castle says 2 tablespoons per 6 oz. Looked like way too much but I tried it just to experiment. I like strong coffe but that's ridiculously strong. I can easily use half of that. The other people in the house use 1 1/2 tbl spoons for the whole 4 cups...instead of the 10-11 suggested in the directions.
what is a tablespoon?
more likely than not you did not use a correctly sized leveled off tablespoon. My tablespoon is exactly 1/2 oz, and I level it off with a breadknife insuring perfect measure. Then I weigh the number of scoops that I use for a given amount of water, and use the scale from then on. For 8 cups of coffee in my Cuisinart (42 oz) I use 16 tablespoons (53g) and it's perfect.