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Used a blade grinder for 6 years and a $4 flea market find in Boise woke me up
I always thought my pour over tasted flat because of cheap beans or bad water, so I kept buying different bags from the same roaster on Maple Street. Last month my neighbor handed me a hand grinder he got at a flea market in Boise for 4 bucks and the same beans suddenly had a sweetness I never got before. How long did it take you all to figure out your grinder was the weak link, and what finally clued you in?
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ramirez.sage15d ago
Man, a friend of mine went through the exact same thing last year. He swore his coffee was bad so he kept buying nicer beans, changed his water, even cleaned his machine every week. Then his wife got him a burr grinder for his birthday and he called me freaking out because his old beans suddenly tasted like chocolate and fruit. Turns out his blade grinder was making a mix of powder and huge chunks, so some grounds got way over pulled and some barely got touched, and that muddy taste was all he knew for years. What got him was grinding the same beans two ways side by side, the difference hit him in like one sip.
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