When I had a 4-wheeler with a 2-stroke engine I had to mix oil with the gas. There was a certain percentage of oil that had to be added to the gas for the engine to run properly: Add too much oil and it smoked - Add too little and it seized. Coffee is the same. Add too much coffee to your water and it is too strong (I know, hard to do but follow me here will ya?) - add too little and you're lucky to get bad tasting tea.
What ratio of grind:water do you use to make coffee? You have likely learned that you just throw so many scoops in and hit the button right? Try weighing your coffee. I know this is a pain but really, you will thank me.
1. Find out how many ounces of water you use in a pot of coffee.
- Cups of coffee are 5 ozs. each. So if you have a 12-cup pot you have (12 * 5) 60 ozs. of water.
2. Now multiply the ounces of water with .042 ... This results in a number that indicates how much grind (by weight) to use for your pot.
- 12 C = 2.5 oz
- 10 C = 2.1 oz
- 8 C = 1.7 oz
- 6 C = 1.25 oz
- 4 C = .85 oz
- 3 C = .65 oz
- 2 C = .40 oz
As a disclaimer, coffee tastes are subjective so you may be used to just heaping the coffee grind into your maker as drinking strong coffee. Using the lower ratio may indeed make you think that the coffee is too weak. Actually, your coffee is fine it's just that your 2-stroke engine is not smoking as much.
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