In my last coffee post, I mentioned how my current Bodum coffee grinder seemed to be having issues. Specifically, I thought the “fine” setting was not normal “espresso-fine consistency that I’m used to for use in my Aeropress.

To look exactly how different the coffee grounds actually are, I went and ground coffee at three different settings: coarse, medium, fine. Basically I had the dial turned all the way to the right (coarse), in the middle (medium) and to the left (fine). Then plated it out to see what they looked like.

Looking at the grounds, there’s a signifcant difference between the coarse and medium grounds. Surprisingly, there’s a difference also between the medium and fine. However, I think that the “fine” is actually more of a medium-fine grind. I’ve seen ground beans with much finer / smaller particles.

I currenlty suspect that the beans are partially causing this issue as I didn’t see such medium-fine grounds in the last batch of beans. I have a new delivery of beans that came yesterday. We’ll see tomorrow.