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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Oh, on a related note, I saw something that said 1kg of coffee should make 90-100 coffees.
Am I using way more coffee than the average person? Maybe you can do that with espresso, but I’m using like 5 tablespoons of ground coffee to make one coffee! Any less and it seems too weak.
That’s about 25g of coffee, which is 40 cups to the kg.
Hmm, I haven’t weighed how much I use but a normal sized bag o’ beans usually lasts me around 10 days or so, and I have 2 coffees every day, with my partner having a couple a week. So that’s about 25 coffees a bag maybe.
How big is the bag? It’s pretty common to have 200g, 500g, and 1kg options when buying online.
I think the supermarkets are normally 200g or 500g.
If you’re using a 500g bag, that’s not too different to my usage.
I self-grind and each double shot espresso takes 12-15g. Measured it recently to gauge the cost per brew ratio. Could be your brewing process idk.
Oh definitely related, I use an Aeropress (kinda like a French press) and I put in twice as much coffee as they say to. And at the same time, I’m using a mug so it’s probably twice as much liquid as a cafe long black so that explains twice the coffee.
My coffee doesn’t seem that big to me, but I guess their estimate is based on a single shot of espresso.