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How to Make Good Coffee at Home in a Coffeemaker:
- Choose good beans. Keep the beans fresh in an air-tight container or bag.
- Grind your beans yourself. This will release the most flavor just as you are about to brew your coffee.
- Coarse: This means it is fairly large, suitable for French Presses and percolators.
- Medium: An all-purpose grind, suitable for most drip coffee brewers.
- Fine: Used for espresso.
Note: If you use a drip brewer and like your coffee strong, try using a finer grind to unlock even more flavor.
- Put a filter in the coffee basket. It's best to get good filters that don't clog, so don't buy the cheapest ones.
- Measure
the coffee grounds. The standard is 2 tablespoons. for every six ounce
cup or 1 1/4 cup of grounds for every 10 cup pot, but you should adjust
it to your own taste. Do not use too little coffee as overextraction of
the grounds can lead to bitter coffee.
- Add a few grains of salt to the grounds. This helps to avoid bitterness. Too much will make the coffee taste salty.
- Pour
good, clean, cold water into the water reservoir. Coffee is mostly
water (98%). Filtered water or bottled water is best. Distilled water
can also make a delicious cup of coffee.
- Place the coffee pot on the warming plate.
Note:
Coffeemakers with karafs make better coffee than makers that have a
warming plate since the warming plates tend to "cook" the coffee after
it is done brewing. Karafs are insulated and still keep the coffee warm
for a long time.
- Start your coffeemaker's brewing cycle.
- Wait
until the cycle is complete before pouring a cup. If you take a cup of
coffee before the pot is done brewing, it will be very strong and also
make the rest of the pot a little bitter.
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