Grind & Brew

You might be fooled by the elegant design of Grind & Brew carafe and think that it’s just a fancy coffee maker. Cuisinart Grind & Brew coffee makers allow you to grind your favorite coffee beans just before you brew your coffee, maximizing the taste for each cup. Unlike other coffee machines that expect you to use pre-ground coffee or grind the beans yourself, this Grind & Brew coffee machine is much more civilized and convenient.

The first question that comes up when you see Cuisinart Grind & Brew carafes is why they focus on grinding right before the brewing process. The answer is slightly complex and requires that you understand the reason why coffee is ground in the first place. Coffee beans start out as green beans that are taken from cherry-like fruits that grow on coffee shrub-like tree. These beans are dried in the sun and stripped of their outer cherry layer. Then they are roasted at high temperatures to help the natural oils come to the surface of the bean. They can also have flavored oils sprayed on them or taken through a decaffeination process.

Beans come to your favorite grocery store or coffee house in whole bean form. But in this form, they could be soaked in hot water, but you would never taste the coffee like you might be used to tasting it. In order to release the rest of the flavor-filled oils from the beans, you need to grind the beans. For automatic drip machines, this is a medium grind that allows many surfaces of the bean grounds to be accessible to the hot water of the coffee maker. And the more the bean is ground, the more flavor is released. However, if you grind the coffee for a regular cup of coffee too finely, you will create an espresso-like brew that will not brew easily (the water will be caught behind the finely packed coffee grounds).

When you use a Cuisinart Grind & Brew Thermal 10-cup system, you will be able to grind your beans to perfection each time without worrying about the size of the grind. The added benefit is that beans that are ground immediately before brewing have the most oils to release flavor, while those beans that are ground long before the brewing process can begin to dry and wither in flavor. A Grind & Brew coffee maker is an investment in treating each bean right and each cup of coffee well.