Consumer Relations, Toastmaster
Dear Consumer Relations Representitive:
I purchased a Toastmaster coffee grinder, model 1119, a few days ago and
so far I am pleased with the product, though I have a comment on the
pamphlet of instructions that come with it and I need your help with
something.
In the English section, it recommends 3/4 cup of beans (maximum capacity
of the grinder) to make 10-12 cups of coffee. Are those U.S. 8 fl. oz.
cups in both cases or are they 5 or 6 fl. oz. "coffee cups" (i.e., not a
true measure)?
-- If you are referring to 8 fl. oz. cups, I would use 6 fl. oz. of
beans (a strange unit for dry beans) to make 80 to 96 fl. oz. of coffee.
-- If you are referring to 6 fl. oz. cups, I would use 4.5 fl. oz. of
beans (still a strange unit for dry beans!) to make 60 to 72 fl. oz. of
coffee.
I checked the pages that are in Spanish and in French, hoping to find
some metric units to clarify matters, but even there strange units are
used: tasses in French and tazas in Spanish. I think that those are just
their words for "coffee cup", which isn't really a unit of measurement
(coffee cups vary considerably in their volumes). My native French and
Spanish colleagues cannot help because, they tell me, they always use
grams and milliliters in France and Spain, respectively. So they just
shrugged their shoulders when I asked.
Since beans are irregular, weighing them out on my kitchen scale makes
the most sense. My measuring cups, like everyone else's, are all marked
to include milliliters so that's easy, too. If I knew what size cup you
were referring to, I could convert those to milliliters myself. But I
have no idea what the mass of "3/4 cup of beans" is. However, I would
like to consistently brew the best coffee possible and that requires the
use of good measurements.
Would you please tell me how many grams of beans I should grind per
liter or per deciliter of coffee?
By the way, it would be really helpful to your customers if you had that
metric information in your information brochure.
Thanks for your assistance.
James R. Frysinger
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James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston
10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street
843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424
http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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