What the hell is wrong with Americans?

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by bobabode

We've tried a few of the French roasts and they're just not our cuppa joe. We brew it pretty strong here, whole bean ground in a Braun blade grinder, Mellita style. We're just more of the medium roast type.

There's your problem. Blade grinders are evil, and should be outlawed in every civilized country. They are a tool of the devil!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

There's your problem. Blade grinders are evil, and should be outlawed in every civilized country. They are a tool of the devil!

I pulse it...

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I pulse it...

What did those poor coffee beans do to you to make you want to mistreat them so? Any good coffee deserves nothing less then a burr grinder!

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

What did those poor coffee beans do to you to make you want to mistreat them so? Any good coffee deserves nothing less then a burr grinder!

Hate to sound so dumb, but what is a burr grinder?

I'm not a coffee drinker .... But live my hot chocolate!

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by barbara

Hate to sound so dumb, but what is a burr grinder?

I'm not a coffee drinker .... But live my hot chocolate!

There are two basic kinds of coffee bean grinders. Blade grinders and burr grinders. Back before electricity was available, coffee beans were either smashed with a mortar and pestle, or after the technology was developed, smashed with a burr grinder. All those old wooden coffee grinders with the little wooden drawer in the bottom and the big metal handle on top are burr grinders. They have a set of gears in them that mesh with each other, drag the beans in and grind them up.

After the advent of electricity, and later high speed motors...somebody realized that it was a lot cheaper to just attach a blade to the motor, kinda like a little steel propeller, make it spin around real fast and dump some coffee beans into it and chop them up. It's really a coffee bean chopper, not a grinder. No grinding at all actually.

The coffee aficionados insist that the output of an electric chopper is not uniform and affects the taste. And also that the speed of the blades, burns the coffee slightly and affects the taste. I can't taste the difference myself. But I never claim to be an aficionado.

My amends for the long answer. To link this back to the long lost subject of the thread...some coffee aficionados might say the use of a blade coffee chopper is what's wrong with Americans.

[bobabode]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...#axzz2nxGwyAUD

Looks like the shooter will be going to trial after all.

[Ike Bana]

Makes you wish part of the deal for this motherfucker could be sentencing him to drink a fifth of Gordon's and then wander up onto the McBride family's front porch and take his chances with her people. If he gets through that alive, then he can spend the rest of his life rotting in prison.