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My personal experience is freshly ground coffee has a much better taste. Although not much better than when you first open a bag of store-bought ground coffee.
by _benedict 11y ago
My personal experience is freshly ground coffee has a much better taste. Although not much better than when you first open a bag of store-bought ground coffee.
If you don't notice the coffee get less flavourful over the course of a couple of weeks, and then tastier when you open a new bag, then there's a reasonable chance you won't notice a sufficient difference in freshly ground coffee.
One thing you unequivocally get each morning is the smell of freshly ground coffee. It's possible this is what makes me believe I taste more flavour; either way, it's enjoyable.
- nightski 11y agoYea personally I find freshly ground makes a massive difference. In fact I was just going to ask how they keep beans fresh in those pods... Even when buying whole beans though it only lasts a week max before I can start to taste a big difference. You can usually tell as gasses are no longer released when pouring hot water over the freshly ground beans.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoFreeze them they'll stay fresh.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoWell this does work. Storing your ground coffee in a sealed container in the freezer is the single easiest thing you can do to improve the flavour of your coffee.
- saalaa 11y ago> freshly ground coffee This is actually the single most determining factor for a good coffee.
- kazinator 11y agoNo, it isn't. Freshly roasted is. The aroma and flavor of coffee degrades rapidly after roasting, whether you grind it or not. Grinding it accelerates the process, but you can easily get coffee in unground form, and the difference between ground and unground is visually obviously: a vendor can't sneak you ground coffee if you want unground. How long ago beans were roasted isn't visually obvious.
- theCodeStig 11y agoNo, again ;-). Its freshly roasted, freshly ground, AND freshly brewed (at the right parameters). That's the gist of it, but of course the quality of the greens before roasting, the roast quality, and grind consistency all come into play. Also don't forget to use good water. In short: quality in, quality out. Any discrepancy of the above will lead to a sub-par result.
- kazinator 11y agoBut freshly ground and freshly brewed is something you easily control as the consumer, which makes them taken for granted and irrelevant. The other parameters are the object of the coffee drinker's desperate search. :)
- IneffablePigeon 11y agoSub-optimal perhaps. I think sub-par is optimistic about the average cup of coffee.
- moron4hire 11y agoFlavor and taste are fundamentally linked, so if something smells better, it's pretty much the same thing as tasting better.
- athenot 11y agoThat's not a given, though. Take some French cheeses which stink unbelievably bad yet have a smooth, creamy & almost sweet taste. The disconnect can be quite surprising. I'm told that Durian fruit can be similar but I have not encountered that monster… yet. :)
- kazinator 11y agoStore-bought ground coffee was roasted months and months ago, so you must be "freshly" grinding beans that were also roasted months and months ago, if you're finding the results similar. Ideally you want coffee to have been roasted no more than about three weeks ago.