Coffee Scoops Review

Coffee Scoops Review

How many of you measure coffee with a small scoop that came with your coffee maker? Maybe things are different around an august group of coffee aficionados, but I just got back from a weekend retreat and all I could find was a subminiature spoon. I resisted the urge to remove it from my hosts' residence for evaluation, but I suspect that it measured 5-7 grams of coffee.

This allows me to address a topic that makes measurement problematic for many of us newly awakened people trying to brew a new batch of coffee: how to measure.

 

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The classic coffee spoon is 10 grams. It is sometimes labeled as a measure of coffee. It is, volumetrically, two tablespoons. This works quite well for a 6-ounce cup of coffee. What I think happened is the influx of foreign products into the United States. I'm mainly talking about Germans and Dutch, this was before our current invasion of overwhelmingly Chinese goods.

 European brewers measured their cups metric, which added quite a bit of confusion, but they were smaller as well, roughly 5-ounce cups. This threw everything out. It also gave them a perceived value advantage,

 as it gave comparison buyers the illusion that they had greater capacity, which of course they did not. But, a casual consumer looking for a last-minute wedding gift would see a Braun coffee maker claiming 10 cups next to a Mr. Coffee claiming only 8. Although only 2 ounces apart, consumers began to pick up the source. European. brewers, at least that's what the appliance industry estimated.

 The last loophole was Bunn, who only changed his mug brands a few years ago, after paying the price in the draw for more than twenty years.

Now consumers, who never wanted to think too much about a detail like measurement, started receiving reduced measuring scoops. The canned coffee industry didn't help, because at the same time, perhaps in response to market turmoil, it took the old corporate answer number 7 and started printing the nebulous' use more or less according to taste. I remember a local Chicago brand, Stewarts, who claimed their coffee was so much tastier than their supplied little spoon allowed them to measure less and still get great tasting coffee.

When I started my coffee acquaintance, I was so confused, desperate that I finally bought a cheap diet scale and began to weigh my lands. In fact, that is my preferred method to this day. First, I think it is more accurate, and that is confirmed every time I measure as I use a 2 tablespoon scoop and find it can vary a bit. Second, it allows me to measure accurately before grinding, reducing waste.

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But there I was, with a non-standard scoop, early in the morning in my friend's kitchen, at the prospect of preparing some wonderful beans that I had brought with me. I even brought a Chemex coffee maker, but sadly there is no scale, or for that matter, no standardized scoop.

I quickly did some quick conversions in my head. I calculated that the tablespoon was 6 or 7 grams, and the Chemex I brought took 50 grams per pot (contains 30 

I used 7 tbsp. It turned out to be fine. It was an Alterra Coffee Sumatra Mandheling, and I know coffee, it could have been better.

 

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Next time, I will bring a scale. But what would you do? As measured? Do you know what size shovel you have? Does anyone challenge the 10 grams / 2 tablespoons per cup of 6 oz formula? How much do you use? Also, several brewers have confusing cup measurements (Technivorm is one, using 4.5-ounce cups). Does this throw someone out?