How to Ground Coffee Beans

Video Transcript

"SIMEON LOWE: Hi, my name is Simeon Lowe on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we are going to learn how to make gourmet coffee in your home. All right. In this clip, we're going to learn how to pack the portafilter, which is this device right here which holds the espresso, full of espresso and then we're going to actually learn about how to pull the shots themselves. All right, you're going to want to fill up the container pretty full and then what you're going to do is you're going to push the coffee down using a spoon or whatever. If you have a tamper, that's actually great that would work better. So pack it down. The reason that we pack it is because the more espresso that's in there, the better shots you're going to get because it's going to be stronger, and that's the point of espresso. You're not trying to get weak coffee. You're trying to get a good, strong, robust flavor. All right next. Now that we have this all packed, you want to dust off those grinds just to make sure like you're not going to get up in the head so that you're going to get the clean shots, the best shots that you can. All right. Now to do this, we're going to put it up. In this situation, we're turning it to the right. Now that we have the shots in there while the espresso--you're going to get this and turn it on. Now, a lot of people don't know the difference between like espresso beans and coffee beans. So, you want to know the difference. You don't want to just grab like preground whatever coffee and put in an espresso machine. You're going to want to get the best, darkest roast especially if you want the strongest shots available. And also, you're going to notice when it's pulling the shots itself that there's going to be a layer. There's going to be three different layers. There's going to be a bottom darkest layer, a middle layer, and then there's going to be a top light golden layer. That's going to be the crema. That's the most flavorful part of the shot itself. So make sure that when you're pulling your shots that you're getting a nice thick layer of crema on the top and that it's not all just watered-down dark coffee."