BronzieNeed a little guidance on grinding
AarkonIt might help to know a little more about the actual beans. Depending on the roast those ratios might indeed vary greatly, I’d think.
These are quite dark. Other than that, I know very little about them.
I’d go crazy and say similar roast to the supermarket beans I get great results with at 14 grind, if that is of any use?
Cheers!
The darker the roast, the lighter a bean should be. You could count a number of beans you have your numbers right and get decent results with, weigh them, and thus compare their roast to that of other beans. That way you‘d be able to find out if your achieved ratios are tied to the roast. Maybe you could even work out a scale telling you what to expect, a ballpark to get your ratio somewhat right when opening a new bag of beans.
That said, I’m only citing theory here, don’t take what I say as the last word on anything :)
Appreciate you taking the time!
I’ll do some volume/weight tests and see what the difference is. If it’s lighter than I thought, a higher ratio is what I should be going for anyways.
Cheers mate!
Ok I just did a quick weight test and the difference is massive!
The store bought beans are marked 6/7 darkness and gave me close to 60 ml of volume.
The subscription without marking gave me <50 ml for the same weight. That’s allmost a 20 % difference in weight even though they look very similar!
I’ll do another test with an exact number of beans to confirm, but I’ve learned a lot already. Maybe my 1:3,5 ratio wasn’t half bad after all and what to actually expect from such a light roast.
This is cool stuff! Much obliged again!
Counting beans isn’t particularly helpful, either, cause they come in a range of sizes. A pacamara bean, for example, is huge, while peaberries of any variety will be tiny. Coffee mills generally sort beans to consistent sizes so they roast well, but you could get coffee from the same farm from 2 different roasters, and each roaster could be buying different sized beans.