Coffee Math Must Be Different From My Math

[sanityrevisited]

The bag of coffee said 1 tablespoon for every 6 ounces.

I am making 8 cups of coffee.

There are 8 ounces to 1 cup.

8 x 8 = 64

64/6 = a little over 10.

Doesn't that mean I have to put 10 tablespoons of coffee plus a little if I'm brewing 8 cups of coffee?

Why, then, is my coffee strong enough to jolt the dead into living again?

Comments

[sanityrevisited]

Usually, I'd ADD coffee grinds. This time, I followed strict instructions.

Wait. No I did not. It said "heaping tablespoons." I leveled my tablespoons!!

This is the first time I've used my coffee maker in a long while. I usually use my French press.

I'm a coffee fiend.

I do not understand this conundrum, however.

My coffee maker needs to be retired.

My desired taste is set at "orgasmic."

This did not meet standards.

[frenchie181]

Isn't the average cup size about 6-8 oz? I'm assuming they're trying to basically tell you to do a scoop per cup. Thats how I do it, but I don't level them, so it all evens out in the end

[sanityrevisited]

Yeah, but I was using a coffee maker, so I figured 8 cups meant 8 eight ounce cups.

I don't think my coffee maker measures out coffee very well, or at least loses a lot more water than any coffee maker ever while brewing.

It's fine. I'll stick to my French press. It never fails me.

[daneele_darling]

Are you sure they said TABLESPOON, not TEASPOON? Because 10 tsps makes more sense than 10 Tbsp. That's approximately 5-6 heaping tablespoons for a pot of coffee, and I always make 10 cups.

How silly, those Folgers nuts.

Chris likes to take what's left of my coffee and reuse it as the water in his coffee. He fills my coffee up to 10 cups with water (so coffee + water unless I wasn't able to get a cup before he did this, in which case it's straight-up coffee), fills the filter with about 10 tablespoons (heaping) with grounds and then pours my coffee in. Then sets it to brew.

If that doesn't get it strong enough, he takes the coffee and pours it into his percolator with MORE grounds, and sets it on the stove on low heat for three days, after which it is a congealed tar.

And then it is strong enough for him to proclaim, "good."

[sanityrevisited]

Chris is my hero. You make sure to tell him that. You have a very impressive man, Mrs. EVO.

I'm sure it said tablespoons. I laid out my math and evidence for Jeff. The bag said 1 heaping tablespoon (7 grams) per 6 ounces of water.

I happen to have a tablespoon that says 7 grams on the handle (for my French press). And I continued to do the above math.

I figured it out, though. I typed that out, boggled, as I took sips of my coffee. I noticed as I poured the pot out that it only had less than 4 cups of coffee left. I made 8 cups of coffee and poured out barely a cup of coffee.

My coffee maker is dumb.

[clickypenpixie]

because its GOOD coffee.