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I bought a bag of pre-ground coffee the other day, thinking I could save some money by getting one of my cups of coffee per day from a much cheaper source. I'm not sure if this was a particularly bad one (a search didn't reveal any customer/reviewer dissatisfaction with it) or my palate has just fully adjusted to the experience of whole beans that I grind myself, but I had a remarkably bad experience with it. The coffee was fucking soulless. It didn't even have the classic smell of coffee. The taste had no appeal or depth at all. I don't know what they did to it when they processed those poor beans, but it was almost unsuitable for human consumption. Jfc. I've thrown the bag in the trash now.
@Muninn
Pre-ground anything that was once alive is generally bad.
The whole reason you grind a food/spice in the first place is to expose the surface area to increase the rate of chemical interaction. When you do this in advance, you just expose it to the air, where you increase the rate of decay, which destroys all the interesting flavour and leaves you with the classic taste of cigarette ash loved by middle classes around the world.
By similar logic, for beans like coffee, you generally want to keep them raw or frozen for long-term storage. Once you roast them, you’ve killed the bean, which obviously disables its immune function, so all the microorganisms that share your affection for good coffee now start to feast. Grinding, again, just exacerbates the rate at which competing microorganisms can consume your coffee before you can.
Personally, I always order from a distributor that roasts right before delivery, but do the grinding myself just before brewing.
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