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What is fine coffee supposed to look and feel like? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently using an antique hand grinder for coffee beans and would like to know what fine coffee is supposed to look and feel like to see if the antique grinder is up to snuff

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Fineness aside, the main quality you want in your ground coffee is a very even size distribution around your desired size. If a lot of the resulting grinds are smaller or larger, especially very fine dust, the resulting brew will be much less balanced. If you want to, you can buy a sifter set to sort out different particle sizes. If you really want to, there’s software to do optical size distribution analysis.