Survey: Drip coffee preparation

[Anonymous]

I'm just curious what the range of "normal" is for ground coffee to pot size when folks are making drip coffee. Let's just say, while helping out with preparing coffee for our small crowd, it was determined that
those in attendance/host/me all have quite different defaults. I'll share mine later on, just want to hear others.

So, how many tablespoons of ground coffee would you use per a standard 10 cup pot of auto-drip?

[Anonymous]

17:1 ratio by weight

https://counterculturecoffee.com/blog/coffee-basics-brewing-ratios

[Anonymous]

For my 12-cup maker, I use one heaping soup spoon (like an actual soup spoon) per 2 cups. I suppose it might equal two measured tablespoons (not heaping) per 2 cups.

[Anonymous]

I have a 10 cup drip coffee maker and use 5 leveled 2-tablespoons. So 10 tbls

[Anonymous]

I make 2.5 cups every day and use 3 big tsp.

[Anonymous]

I'm not going to reveal mine, but I think most of pps coffee would taste like brown water to me. My coffee would taste like rocket fuel to pps. It tastes great to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to reveal mine, but I think most of pps coffee would taste like brown water to me. My coffee would taste like rocket fuel to pps. It tastes great to me.

Bingo. I use a quarter-cup measuring cup (who has time for spoons??) and fill the filter basket to the brim.

My wife often pours her first cup the second there's enough in the pot. She's drinking 200 proof Joe, baby.

[Anonymous]

8

[Anonymous]

6 heaping coffee scoops (I think the scoop is two tablespoons)

About to visit SIL for a week and this woman uses 1 scoop for a pot of coffee. I'm bringing my own stash of nasty Starbucks instant with me for survival.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to reveal mine, but I think most of pps coffee would taste like brown water to me. My coffee would taste like rocket fuel to pps. It tastes great to me.

Oh God, you’re my MIL. She makes the worst coffee. It’s so bad that her coworkers used to arrive before her so she wouldn’t make it, then she felt bad for being “late” and kept arriving earlier and earlier until finally someone told her that she could arrive whenever she wanted, but she wasn’t allowed to make coffee.

[Anonymous]

You can dilute string coffee. Nothing can salvage brown water.

[Anonymous]

I use about 70 grams for my bonavita, which I think is 8 5oz cups (40 oz total- why do coffee makers use fake cup measurements I don't know..)

I can get away with using 56 grams and it still is good, but I typically do 70-80.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I usually don't measure, and just do about half the basket full of grounds for a full pot. When I do measure, I go with a heaping tablespoon per cup. I acknowledge that might be a tad strong for some tastes, but seems pretty standard, really.

I've always though MILs coffee was weak and well, now I know why. Apparently she uses three heaping tablespoons. Per pot. Brown water, indeed!

[Anonymous]

1/2 cup dry measure of cheap coffee
To 8 oz water. Perfect coffee every time.

[Anonymous]

I do one less scoop per cup of coffee. Tastes right to me.