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Summary: Grinding coffee beans in a food mill will technically get an extraction from the beans, but will probably not create the desired type of coffee. Learn about different grinds of coffee, including a Turkish grind, an espresso grind and a drip grind, with information from the owner of a coffee shop in this free video on coffee.
Raphael Perrier and his three partners own Kahwa Coffee Roasting in St Petersburg Fla. Not only do they sell coffee in the cafe, they also grow and roast coffee, selling it wholesale,...read more
"Hi, my name is Raphael Perrier. I'm from Kahwa Coffee Roasting, and I'm here to talk to you about grinding your coffee in a food mill. Grinding your coffee in a food mill is possible, as long as you grind your coffee and you'll get some extraction, full bean. But, you have actually different ways to grind your coffee. And your coffee grind goes from very fine to very coarse. With a food mill, I don't think you'll be able to get the grind that you need to do the coffee that you want. When you got a fine, fine grind, it's called a Turkish grind. A Turkish grind is the finest grind you can find. After that, you have an espresso grind. An espresso grind is very fine, but the extraction it makes is made to be brewed into an espresso machine. After that, the most common grind is the drip grind, which is a medium grind that actually is used in most of the households in America, where people just use a drip cone coffee machine. After that, you can also use a grind for percolator. The percolator grind is in between the...it's actually a medium coarse grind, but can be used for a lot of big volume places. And the last grind that you have is the French press grind, which is the coarsest grind you have. The coarser you grind, the more coffee you're going to have to put, that's very simple. The finest the grind, the less coffee you'll put. I'm Raphael, I'm from Kahwa Coffee, and I was talking to you about, can you grind your coffee in a food mill?"
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