I played it dumb for this message to Toastmaster. Starbucks recommends
10 g of ground coffee per 180 mL of water for their blends. ["The World
of Coffees", Starbucks, pamphlet available at their outlets.]
Jim
"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
>
> 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]
> Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
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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]
Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
