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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 (1/8 cup) . Be warned some coffee measures deviate from the 2 Tbs. standard. Some are even as small as 1 Tbs.
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1 tablespoon expresso = 5 grams confirmed
Just to check how much a tablespoon of coffee grounds weighs, I pulled out my OHAUS 1010 reloading scale. These have to be very precise otherwise the person reloading rifle cartridges will blow the gun apart and OHAUS could perhaps be sued.
I used two different tablespoon sized measures.
And pulled a knife across the spoon top to level the measure of coffee.
The coffee was Folgers Brazillian in their standard grind which is courser than expresso, and intended for the common drip grind American coffee brewers.
First tablespoon weighed 71.5 grains
Second tablespoon weighed 72.2 grains.
Grains is the measure of weight used by gunpowder manufacturers.
1 grain = 0.648 grams.
So the first tablespoon weighed 4.63 grams
The second weighed 4.68 grams
Now if we use the comments by "Scott", he says that the ratio of expresso to drip grind he found to be 3.3 to 3.1, the expresso being heavier than the drip. So taking an average of my two weighing as 4.65 grams, then we have 4.65 grams x 3.3 /3.1 = 4.95 grams.
Variables, there are many.
But a tablespoon of expresso will indeed weigh about 5 grams as far as I'm concerned after my experiment. Which I never have to do again, I did it once to be sure, that's enough for me!
Personally, in a drip coffee maker I use 4 tablespoons for 40 ounce pot. Folgers advises 1 tablespoon per 6 ounces, but 6 and 2/3 TBLS per pot is way too much for me.
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!!!!!!!!
Way better
I agree, it's way better that way. It's more natural, it tastes good and we can leave all the chemicals behind. As a girl, when i was 15 maybe, i remember the first coffee that i liked being made that way by my father!
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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