What really gets your beans going

Get your cup of coffee ready is an important part for the quality of a brewed cup. Making an excellent cup of coffee can be attributed to many things ,a good coffee machine or coffee device for brewing. Perhaps more importantly, a coffee grinder.

How Important Are Coffee Grinders
The grinder is used to extract the aroma and taste from coffee beans, letting you brew a great cup of coffee. A lot of the time the coffee machine overshadows the grinder, but the grinder has the task of the all important coffee bean grind size.

Grind Size
The coffee ground size determines how your cup will turn out taste-wise. When it comes to grind size, there are three factors which make the biggest difference:

Contact time, extraction rate and flow rate.

The extraction rate of coffee grounds increases with a larger surface area.
To increase surface area, grind the coffee finer.
The higher the extraction rate, the less contact time is needed.
A finer grind can reduce the flow rate of water, increasing the contact time.

By adjusting the grind size and tasting your coffee you should be able to find a balance with your grinder and grind size to produce your best cup.