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  • There are certain times of year when you find yourself making coffee in other people's kitchens, and often family members that say, Or maybe they don't have a burr grinder.

  • Maybe they only have a blade grinder.

  • Now we've said Blake grounders are bad because they're not nearly as good as Burr grinders.

  • But I'll take a blade grinder over pre ground coffee any day of the week and what we can do where they're kind of three stage hack is improved.

  • The quality of coffee coming out of a blade grander, quite dramatically.

  • Thes hacks will go from pretty simple through to something you maybe don't want to get caught doing by another family member.

  • Make sure that we need grinding the blade grinder.

  • You don't just let the burst spin on, just hold down the button, but you regularly stop and shake up the grounds in there.

  • This will help ensure the evenness of the grounds that you're getting out of this thing.

  • It really does make quite a large difference too quick thing, but it is pretty useful coffee in, and then as you grinding now you're gonna have to eyeball this, too, about the ground sides that you want.

  • What I would say is that chances are they maybe don't have a great brewing set up.

  • This kind of ah grind method works really well with things like a French press, especially with the French press technique, to get pretty good results for lots of people in the morning.

  • So at this point, your grand, uh okay, right that they're better than they would be.

  • If you just let the whole thing run for a while, you'd have some super fine pieces which you don't want to need to have some very large pieces that you don't want.

  • So here the ground is a little uneven, but it's it's okay.

  • So on to the second stage, most kitchens have a sieve in them, and the city is your friend.

  • Right now we're not worried about the super fine pieces were actually worried about the much larger pieces.

  • There's kind of boulder size pieces and not the fines.

  • So very quickly.

  • Only gonna do is just sift the grounds you've got.

  • What you'll see is that most of it will go through and you'll be left with just there's big bouldering pieces on what we're gonna do with those is just growing those again, right?

  • We're gonna take those down, find out on their own.

  • So here, still quite a lot of coffee needs to ground again who?

  • So here we're at the point of diminishing returns.

  • I would probably not keep going and going and going and going, I just probably grind 10 15% more coffee that I might need for my brew, because when I got here at this point is actually pretty uniform, but we can go further.

  • So we've taken care of the big pieces.

  • But what about the fines?

  • Now, this is the thing that maybe you're gonna look a little weird in front of family members doing.

  • But chances are they've got paper telling their kitchen, and this stuff is really useful.

  • This is a hack taught to me by Ben Kaminsky.

  • I'm only gonna do for your grounds onto your paper towel, spread him around a little bit, rub them into the paper, and that's it.

  • You know, you can't ease back into whatever you're gonna brew with or another bowl, because what happens is that those super fine pieces get stuck on the paper and you get rid of them that way.

  • So what we got at the end of all this is not the most uniformly ground coffee, but actually it's really, really pretty good.

  • There's a little tiny bit of waste.

  • It's a little bit of extra effort and, frankly, that's why we buy Burr grinders.

  • But if you have to make the best coffee you can with a blade grinder in a house, this is how to do it.

  • So that's it.

  • That's how you can get really pretty good grounds out of a blade grinder.

  • It's a little extra work, No doubt that's frankly why we Beiber grounders but holidays coming up.

  • Maybe your whole family expects you to make amazing coffee extend know you're into coffee, but they don't give you the tools to do it.

  • But here, a couple of quick hacks to get the best possible grounds out of a playground has always take so much watching.

  • Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below.

There are certain times of year when you find yourself making coffee in other people's kitchens, and often family members that say, Or maybe they don't have a burr grinder.

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