Overhead view of coffee beans in a grinder near loose beans, a wooden spoon, and placemat or dish towel - Hiroyuki Nakai/Getty Images If you're enough of a coffee connoisseur that you want to spend ...

Have you ever wondered what makes that coffee shop morning brew so exceptional? Aside from the obvious fact that it’s just nice to have someone else prepare your java, there’s one simple secret that ...

Espresso is one of the most popular ways to drink coffee, but it’s also the most complicated to make. The process depends on a delicate combination of factors – including grind setting, coffee amount, ...

Arguably the most socially acceptable, delicious drug on the market, coffee is an absolute necessity to start the day for most of us: the exhausted parent, the tense and hurried workaholic, the ...

Scientists have identified the golden ratio for ground espresso beans, or more aptly, the Goldilocks ratio: not too small, not too large, but somewhere in the middle. A team of researchers from around ...

The fracturing and friction of coffee beans during grinding generates electricity that causes coffee particles to clump together and stick to the grinder. Researchers report December 6 in the journal ...

Researchers are challenging common espresso wisdom, finding that fewer coffee beans, ground more coarsely, are the key to a drink that is cheaper to make, more consistent from shot to shot, and just ...