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Standard coffee maker?

Decide how much coffee you're making. Fill the pot to that marked level (i.e. 8 cups). Place filter in maker in the appropriate place. Add one rounded tablespoon of grounds per cup (i.e. 8 tablespoons). Add water to reservoir. Put pot on heating element. Flip switch.

That's assuming a typical coffee maker & a can of grounds.

Depends on the strength of coffee (Columbian, French Roast, etc). Averages is one rounded tablespoon per cup to one heaping tablespoon per 2 cups.

FYI, some coffee makers have a horrible steam/evaporation issue, where you'll put 12 cups of water in, and it will only brew 10. Results in stronger coffee, I'd run a pot of water through it to see if this affects your coffee maker (if anyone asks, say it cleans the percolator)...this will give you an idea of any balancing you need to compensate for.

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Edited, Mar 18th 2009 12:38pm by Ryneguy

Have you considered reading the brewing instructions on the side of the ground coffee container? There's your guideline, now adjust based on feedback you overhear.

Sometimes there is a problem with the filter folding over which can cause grinds to overflow the rim of the filter. This might have happened at some point and resulted in grinds being stuck to your filter basket and thus getting flushed into your coffee when brewing subsequent pots.

Did you just RTFM Thumb?

If you have a kitchen scale, I've found 50 grams to be the perfect amount. This is also roughly the amount that single pot grounds come packed in.

Use cold water, filtered if available (if you have a water cooler, that's good). Ten cups of water to a rounded half cup scoop of coffee grounds. If there are grounds in the machine, trying cleaning it. Run a solution of half white distilled vinegar and half water through the machine, followed by another cycle of just water to rinse it.

Nexa

Who the hell uses spoons to measure out coffee??

I have a standard coffee maker. I fill the water up to the 6 cup line and pour it in. Then I measure out 3 level-to-heaping coffee scoops. Works like a charm.

I should make more now.

They had one of those at a resort Flea & I stayed at recently. We weren't impressed by the end result. And this is coming from a guy whose means of getting coffee in the morning involves pressing A-4 on the machine in the breakroom.

T. S. Eliot.

I like my Keurig. I have one at home and at work and order directly from Green Mountain Coffee. They make a very good cup of coffee. I get Double Black Diamond b/c I like coffee so dark, you can't see light anywhere within a hundred feet of my cup.

It's not a waste if it leads to a good cup of coffee.

This could also be the cause of the grounds in the coffee you mentioned. As I mentioned before, sometimes the sides of filters can fold over so that they are laying atop the grounds, especially if they are improperly positioned to begin with and then the weight of the water soaking the paper just causes them to droop down. When this happens, the filter basket can overflow.

Trimming the filters down might not solve the problem of them being an improper fit for your filter basket. Check your manual to see what the proper size filter should be (for instance, #4). If you can't find the manual and if the filter basket is removable, take it with you to someplace like Peet's Coffee and Tea and ask for help (Peet's is usually a lot less snooty about such things than Starbucks) or maybe someplace that sells small appliances and accessories, like Bed Bath & Beyond.

Or, you know, scrap the cheap filthy coffee maker and get a better one. You can usually get a decent coffee maker in the $40-80 range. Our Farberwear brewer was around $50 iirc. Not top of the line, but decent. For something nicer, like the Cuisinart Grind & Brew (built in grinder!) or something with a thermal carafe, expect to pay a bit more.