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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 said blade runs
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 with
that kind of three-stage hack is improve
the quality of coffee coming out of a
blade grinder quite dramatically these
hacks will go from pretty simple through
to something you maybe don't want to get
caught doing by another family member
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make sure that when you've grinding in a
blade grinder you don't just let the
burst spin and 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 it's a
quick thing but it is pretty useful
coffee in and then as you're grinding
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now you're going to have to eyeball this
to the about the ground size that you
want what I would say is that chances
are they maybe don't have a great
brewing setup this kind of a 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 grounds
are okay right 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 sieve is your
friend right now we're not worried about
the super fine pieces were actually
worried about the much larger pieces
those kind of Boulder sized pieces and
not the fines so very quickly all you're
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 those big bouldering pieces and
what we're gonna do with those is just
grind those again right we're going to
take those down find out on their own so
here still quite a lot of coffee needs
to be ground again
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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 ten fifteen
percent more coffee than I might need
for my brew because what I've 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 going to look a little
weird in front of family members doing
but chances are they've got paper towel
in their kitchen and this stuff is
really useful this is a hack taught to
me by Ben Kaminsky all you're gonna do
put your grounds onto your paper towel
spread them around a little bit gonna
rub them into the paper and that's it
you're going to decant these back into
whatever you're going to 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've got on 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 bur
grounders 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 and that's frankly why we buy fur
grinders but we've got the holidays
coming up maybe your whole family
expects you to make amazing coffee
because they 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 blade
grinder
as always thank you so much for watching
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