Whether you are brewing to drink coffee, harvesting to sell, or selling grounded coffee, a part you can’t neglect is measuring out the amount of coffee you have and want to make use of.
Measuring your coffee right at the start would give you a great avenue to know the amount of cups you can get from a cup of coffee.
What Is a Coffee Bean?
Quite a number of people aren’t aware of what a coffee bean really is. Of course, we have the bean we grind into a fine texture and brew into coffee – a beverage most of us enjoy. But where does this bean come from? What is this coffee bean?
The coffee bean is a seed gotten from the coffea plant. The coffea plant on the other hand is a plant, mostly shrubs, or small trees that are unique to some South American countries like, Peru, Columbia, and Brazil, some Asian countries like, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam, and Central American country, Guatemala and Honduras. Other countries that have large exports of coffee includes African country Ethiopia and Uganda. These countries have large number of coffea plants and the main suppliers of the coffee seed.
Apart from being the raw material for the coffee drink, the coffee seed is also used as flavor for some other food and beverages.
How to Determine the Amount of Coffee Cups You Can Get From a Pound of Coffee Bean
The first thing to note here is that a cup of coffee weighs close to 8 ounces, two cups, around 16 ounces.
Moving from here you can determine how many cups you can get from a pound of your coffee bean or even a bag. Calculating it would become easy and quick.
And yes, we have to note that coffee cups vary from place to place.
What Then Is the Amount of Coffee Cup You Can Get From a Pound of Coffee Bean?
The standard coffee cup would hold 8 ounces of coffee, but these cups vary from place to place: some can be larger, and some can be lesser. So, the amount of cups you would get would depend on the size of the cup you’re drinking from.
You have to grind your coffee too, and even with the grounded one you won’t make use of the whole 8 ounces to brew a cup.
Another thing to note is that your preference also matters when you want to know how much cups you have in a coffee pound. You’d naturally use up to 1.9 ounces to brew a cup of coffee on average. But those who like their coffee weak would use less than that while the fans of a strong brew would use more than 1.9 ounces A rough sketch would give you about 47 cups from a pound of coffee bean.
There are two ways of knowing how many cups you can get from a pound. If you weigh your coffee bean before it is grounded, you would get a large number, but when grounded the size reduces, not too much, but significantly.
How Many Cups Are Then There in a Pound of Grounded Coffee?
Even though the size of the coffee varies with the cups you use, the type of coffee you take – weak or strong – and after grinding the beans, the standard number of cups you would always get is around 47. Even if it’s going to be different from this figure, it wouldn’t be a very large difference. I’m inviting you to try this out and leave the number you get as a comment on this post. But remember, you have to weigh everything with a scale to make sure you’re getting the right number. Will you take up this challenge? Let me know what you get.
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