If you are a fan of coffee, you agree with me that it is its unique taste and smell that you love most. Whether you are addicted to caffeine or not, a warm cup of freshly-ground coffee gives you something you can’t get from any other beverage. Consequently, coffee that tastes and smells differently is not your type of beverage. To make sure that you take coffee in its fresh, natural state, you need to grind the beans yourself. Whenever you buy pre-ground coffee, you can never be sure of anything.
Freshly Ground Coffee Has a Better Taste
Before pre-ground coffee is made available in coffee shops, it goes through several processes. These processes alter the natural state of some of the coffee compounds. A case on point, immediately after a bag of roasted coffee beans is opened, the beans start going bad. Matters go from bad to worse as time goes by since the essential oils in these beans begin to evaporate. Carbon dioxide disappears as well. It is different when you grind the coffee yourself as nothing is lost. Your freshly-ground coffee has the natural taste that you want so badly.
It Also Smells Better
Coffee that is ground at home has all its flavours intact. It, therefore, smells better than pre-ground coffee. Apart from going stale, coffee beans that are exposed to the atmosphere lose their essential oils and carbon dioxide through evaporation. The little oil that remains is diluted by the atmospheric moisture. Remember that the unique smell of coffee comes from these oils, meaning that when they evaporate or are diluted, the remaining coffee tastes and smells differently.
It Is Less Contaminated
A cup of hot freshly-ground coffee in the morning gives you the energy you need to face the challenges of each day. However, this cup of coffee needs to be pure. Pre-ground coffee will always have impurities. This is because some of its components oxidize whenever they are exposed to air molecules. Oxidation speeds up when the beans are ground, and by the time you buy the pre-ground coffee from the shop, a lot has changed. The essential oils have evaporated, and the remaining components have oxidized. You can arrest the oxidation and evaporation processes when you grind the coffee yourself, as the beans are not exposed to the atmosphere for a long time.
Its Components Are in Their Natural State
Coffee has several unstable compounds that easily decompose or react with air to form other compounds. There are few or no measures to keep these compounds in their natural state when coffee is ground in the coffee mills. However, when you grind coffee yourself, its compounds are just beginning to oxidize, and they will not lose their natural properties by the time the coffee is ready to drink.
One last advantage of grinding your coffee is that you decide the grind size yourself. You choose whether you want extra coarse, medium, fine or extra fine grind sizes. You do not have this choice with pre-ground coffee.…