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Figured out I was grinding coffee wrong for like 2 years
I had been using the same cheap blade grinder since college and never thought twice about it. Then a buddy came over for breakfast back in March and watched me pulse the beans for a few seconds, and he just kind of laughed and asked how long I'd been doing it that way. Turns out a blade grinder just chops the beans all uneven, so you get dust at the bottom and huge chunks at the top, and that's why my coffee always tasted bitter no matter what beans I bought. I started shaking the grinder while it ran and doing short pulses instead of one long blast, and it made a real difference in how even the grind came out. Then I took an old wire strainer from the kitchen drawer and sift out the big chunks, re-grind them, and dump the fine dust. Costs nothing and my $15 grinder is doing way better work now. I still get a little dust but it's night and day from before. Anyone else messing with sifting or shaking their blade grinder, or did you all just switch to a burr one?
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