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> A single pound of coffee makes about 50 cups of coffee. What method are you using to make 50 cups from a pound?! I get 20-25 from pourover; slightly less fr
by jMyles 9y ago
> A single pound of coffee makes about 50 cups of coffee.
What method are you using to make 50 cups from a pound?!
I get 20-25 from pourover; slightly less from aeropress.
- pdog 9y agoA standard cup of coffee is six ounces. Most people use too high a coffee-to-water ratio when making coffee.
- aorloff 9y agoI think the problem is the notion of "cups." When I make 8 cups in my automatic, I drink about 4 cups - our mug size is about 2 "cups."
- maxerickson 9y agoBaaah!
- lostlogin 9y agoHow can it be called wrong if they like it? I like my espresso as thick as I can get it out the machine. Tamp the hell out of it, over pressure the boiler (12 bar) and go for it. I'm sure I'll damage the machine doing this but after 10 years it still seems ok. The Rancillio Silvia is well suited to this brewing method.
- pdog 9y agoEspresso, sure. Good drip or pourover coffee is generally brewed by weight with approximately 16 units of water to 1 unit of coffee.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoThere are 60-75 tablespoons in a pound of coffee. Which should make 30+ cups of coffee. 2 tablespoons per cup. If you're needing substantially more than that in your Aeropress you're probably being somewhat wasteful. Possibly your grind is coarser than it needs to be.
- ozi 9y agoCoffee is dosed by weight, not volume. A 1:15 to 1:20 ratio of coffee to water is ideal - assuming 300ml cups, that's at most 30 cups per pound.
- hvidgaard 9y agoIdeal is entirely dependend on brewmethod, bean, preference, and age of the roast. I very rarely go above 1:15, and often closer to 1:10 for pourover. For espresso it's a different beast, but usually something like 18-20g pr cup.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoI don't understand. You're saying that when I measure two tablespoons and brew a lovely cup of coffee every morning that what... I'm in an artificial reality? I'm hallucinating?
- lttlrck 9y agoYour numbers sound about right to me. I use 25g per mug. There's around 450g/lb so 18 mugs per lb. That's pour over with a Chemix.
- eikenberry 9y agoI get just under 40 cups/pound from cold brew. I use around 8-9oz of coffee beans (plus a bit of salt) with a little under a gallon of water.