Five ways to make bad coffee!

It’s easy to make a good coffee pot; you must follow the instructions and use good quality coffee with good technique and correct quantities of beans. Whether you’ve decided you want to make bad coffee to get revenge on someone who served you a terrible cup or (more likely) so you can learn to avoid the mistakes that go into a bad pot of coffee, this article will tell you how.

1. Use Refrigerated or Frozen Beans

Many people refrigerate or freeze their coffee or coffee beans to preserve the beans’ life. However, when done correctly, freezing and refrigerating can protect your coffee. Heat and cold can reduce the flavor of the coffee, and moisture exposure inside a freezer or refrigerator can cause your beans to become soggy. Yuck!

2. Leave Your Coffee On The Warming Plate

Did you know that the longer you continuously heat coffee, the more it loses and changes flavor? Leaving your coffee on the plate all day could cause the delicious aroma of coffee to turn into the particularly non-delicious aroma of burnt beans.

3. Re-Use Your Grounds

Save more money than using the same coffee grounds for more than one cup. But re-using your coffee grounds can add other effects too. After being heated by boiling water, coffee grounds lose their warm aroma and take on raw nuts’ unpleasant, acrid, and bitter aroma.

4. Use Stale Coffee

Did you know that even freshly ground coffee beans begin stale after only 15 minutes? Serving stale coffee is easy. You have to get the coffee grounds out a few hours in advance or store them in a container that isn’t airtight. How simple is that! Stale coffee will have a flat and sometimes bitter taste that can easily prove to be the worst cup of coffee you’ve ever had.

5. Purchase or Make the Wrong Grind

What kind of coffee maker do you have? French Press, an espresso maker, or a regular coffee machine? Each coffee maker should use its grind of coffee. Espresso should have a relatively large chore; a traditional coffee maker should have medium grind, and a French press should use finely ground coffee. Try to mix and match to see what the effects will be! In most cases, an espresso made with finely ground coffee can be a bit grainy (definitely wrong), regular coffee will be a little weak, and your large-grain French press coffee will be watery. 

Now that you know the five ways to make bad coffee, you also learn how to avoid making bad coffee. Unless, of course, you want to make bad coffee deliberately. Remember, keeping your beans fresh, using the right grind, and using proper storing methods for your coffee can make all of the difference in whether you are making a good or bad cup of coffee.