Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Barista Express or Similarly Priced Hand Grinder?

When it comes to coffeegrinders in the market, there are just so many to consider depending on their features. They range from affordable to absurdly expensive.Though some are expensive or cheap, you will find any of your choice depending on your budget. There is nothing as good as having a good cup of coffee that has been freshly grounded and brewed. 


A good grinder is able to grind the coffee beans to a more uniform size and get a good ground for your coffee. It is not difficult to make and grind coffee every single day since it is a matter of a few minutes and is not as hectic as some of you may think. With a perfect grinder, you are able to have a good and incredible cup of Joe.

The Barista Express grinder is one great one that makes the baristas work more natural and effortless. The Barista is good but they are others that are much better to it, but if you have a budget that can get you one, you will not be disappointed. When you are looking for a grinder that is good for espresso, make sure you have one that is specific for espresso since it is difficult to keep on adjusting it every time you want to make espresso after making a different type of coffee.

It is really difficult to keep o changing the adjustment especially if you are in a hurry. So getting one specifically for espresso is very important.

 Many offices have different people, and most of them love coffee. You find that coffee making differs from one person to another. All this is because of their preference and the taste and thickness they desire. For that, you find that most of the offices have probably 3 coffee making machines one for espresso and the others for hand grinding and others for a different type of coffee making. To some hand, grinders are good and better to have than the Barista Express.

Since the hand grinders have been introduced a few years back, they have not disappointed at all. They have great characteristics like the precision cut steel burrs, designed to last long and also secure center shaft on the bearings. It is not easy to know if the grinder can work effectively just at first glance but with testing and reviews from the people who have used them you are able to get the right one.

So, getting the Barista Express and a hand grinder of the same price range will solely depend with what you as a user want to experience and if you want it.

Friday, 10 May 2019

How Much Will The Coffee Temperature Decrease When The Milk Is Added?


Coffee works in a way that is beyond words could describe from the way it is brewed to the way it is taken and with which company. There is something that is observed when the coffee is on the table or adding flavor and milk to it. A good example is when you add milk to coffee it decreases its temperature. Why? Well, the rate at which the heat is lost in coffee is proportional to the difference in temperature in coffee and the room temperature.

It is quite reasonable that when you take two cups of coffee and add cold milk to one of them, the temperature of the one you have added milk will decrease to a temperature between the hot coffee and the cold milk.  But what you have to know is that it has been proven that hot coffee has a slower cooling rate when you add creamy milk. As we have said above, things tend to cool faster when the temperature is compared to that of the room temperature. 

The reason why the temperature decreased from the coffee after adding milk to it was that the fat in the milk melted and evaporated leading to loss of heat. When the temperature decrease from the coffee, there is much difference between the room temperature and its own temperature.

When you place a hot coffee on the table without milk, you will notice that the coffee is hotter than the room temperature. Even when you add milk to it, it just lightens the color of the coffee. Immediately the black coffee is added milk to it. It start to lose temperature at a much faster rate. If you compare with the black coffee without milk, you will see the differences very clearly as the black coffee will remain hot for a while longer. 

But all this also depends on the type of milk you have added to it. If it is creamy and fatty milk, it lessons from the evaporation at the surface of the coffee to leave a less heated coffee. When you look at this you will come to know why the coffee with full of cream milk is able to contain its heat much longer than with no milk or with skim milk since they have no fat or even if they do, it id little to hold the heat