How many tablespoons of coffee beans after grinding do you use for 4 cups coffee, and should you remove the grinds after brewing.
276670
I use five Tbsp and once brewed I unplug it and pour. No need to throw out the grounds until you are doing cleanup that day
276671
I use 6 heaping TBSP (i like strong coffee) for 4 cups of coffee. Yes you should remove the grinds everyday so the basket and pot don't stain.
276672
Using folger's 100% Colombian, I find that 6-7 tablespoons makes good coffee - not overly strong
2177294
Grinding your coffee just before you brew it is literally the single most important thing, maybe after only using fresh beans less than 2-3 weeks old. For the price of this I would suggest getting a Hario hand grinder, keep using your current brew method and get this at a later time.
1247524
I do not know of an official grind size guide. There is a range of ideal settings for any brewing method, since light and dark roasts tend to fragment differently. For French press (coarse grind), I have had good results with 9-13 clicks from the finest setting (9=light roast; 13=French roast). For Melitta manual drip pour-over (fine grind), I get good results with 5-8 clicks, depending upon the bean. I used 7 clicks for a medium roasted Ethiopian bean the other day and brewed some of the best coffee I've ever had. Hope this helps.
630472
I have used mine extensively for brewing coffee, and here's what I've found: If you grind your coffee coarsely, you'll have to use around 25 grams per mug, and you still get a little bit of "sludge" in the bottom of the cup. If it's important to you not to have any coffee grounds come through, I recommend using a paper filter to line the strainer (I use #4 cone-shaped filters). Then you can also grind your coffee much more finely, and use less per cup (I use about 17 grams for a16 oz. cup, at somewhere between a fine "drip" and an espresso grind). The thing that I like so very well about using this for coffee making is that its thermal mass is very low, meaning that it doesn't cool the water down too much for optimal brewing (or drinking). If you preheat your mug your coffee will still be quite hot when it's brewed.
2028106
It depends on how strong you like your coffee. For 8 oz I would suggest two heaping tablespoons. You can adjust it up or down the next time.
1660908
Good question. I just made coffee (Mmmmmm) and could not fit 30 grams in at one time. The most I could fit in the grinding chamber at once was 24 grams. But it grinds very quickly so if you have the beans measured out you can easily grind 30 gms in two batches in less than 5 minutes.
73960
Press down the grounds after brewing overnight. They won't be swimming around in the coffee because they will be pressed to the bottom and trapped under the filter. As for using 24 scoops, that sounds extremely strong to me; however, you will need to experiment until you fin the perfect taste for yourself. I found 15-16 scoops to be perfect and i like my brew on the stronger side, yet not overwhelmingly so. Hope this helps & I'm sorry no one else has bothered to take 2 minutes to respond.
1065312
The smallesThe smallest amount you can grind is for 2 cups; if you don't grind I would imagine you could brew a single cup but that defeats the purpose of fresh ground coffee. The aroma from a fresh grind is unbelievable. I make 2 cups in the morning.
1319174
If you make a full 12 cup pot of coffee, you should use #6 filters. The #4 has a tendency to overflow and you get coffee grounds in your brewed coffee.
1732652
Apologies in advance if this isn't what you are looking for... Does the following help?When finished grinding a specified number of cups, and you *do not* tap the side of the housing, there is less than a quarter tsp of grounds (qualify this: winter season, low humidity, northern midwest US, at this writing). If you gently tap the housing, there really is not any retained grounds.If you unlock the feeder bin, and remove it. There is a variable amount, between a 1/8 and a 1/4 cup of half beans and parts. Good Journey!
330396
I used 2.5 cups of coffee grounds and it was perfect! I usually use Starbucks brand coffee...Hope this helps.
515541
Four cups is the amount listed in the manual which is really around 2 mugs of coffee. I do this almost every morning.
1747026
A scoop of coffee is about 1 tablespoon. You need to use much more coffee then you have described. I use 3 cups of water using a measuring cup (which is a bit more than the 4 cup mark on the Bonavita) and six scoops of coffee. I had to play around with it some and it does change a little depending on what roast I'm using. Enjoy!
602045
The timer has nothing to do with the coarseness of the grounds; it's only to determine how long the grinder runs. The grounds fall out of the grinder as soon as they're the right size, whether or not the grinder is still going. For three scoops of beans, though - "4" is good.
277971
I use a heaping 1/2 cup of coffee beans to make a 10 cup pot of coffee. I grind fresh beans each morning. It takes less than a minute. It's an on/off switch The sound of the grinder changes when the beans are ground so you can hear when to switch it off
460529
Nothing wrong with that, but unnecessary. BTW, you can get more out of a pound of coffee by doing what I call, second coffee. After you drain the coffee, you can add 5 more cups of cold water to the grounds and let it sit another 12 hours, then drain again. With high quality coffee beans, this second run is almost as rich as the first.
2193951
All you have to do is keep the hopper filled and it only grinds the amount needed. If you select to brew 4 cups of coffee it will only grind 4 cups worth of beans.