What's Wrong With Pre-Ground Coffee

What's wrong with buying pre-ground coffee for use in your espresso machine?

1. Firstly and most obviously, pre-ground coffee is not as fresh as the coffee which comes stright out of the grinder. Although coffee companies are now able to pack coffee with some sophisticated methods to keep the pre-ground coffee fresher it still won't taste like its freshly ground.

2. Pre-ground coffee comes in packets which are too large for most people to use in a short period of time. Take too long to use your supermarket coffee and the taste will be pretty dire.

3. Coffee ground be someone else won't come ground to the exact consistency needed for your coffee machine to make the prefect coffee.

If you use coffee which has been ground too finely your espresso machine will have trouble pushing the water through the coffee resulting in a machine unable to pproduce a coffee.

Coffee beans which are ground too course result in the water running through coffee too quickly and will be unable to pick up the flavor. You'll be left with a cup of tasteless liquid which doesn't have the most important espresso crema.

The solution to this problem is quite simple you need to invest in a quality coffee grinder if you want to get great coffee at home every from your espresso machine. Do some research on the Internet of ask knowledgable coffee drinking friends for advice to ensure you get the best coffee grinder for the money. Remember its a decision you will have to live with for years to come.