{"id":52852,"date":"2024-12-19T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/?p=52852"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:24:17","slug":"keeping-it-fresh-it-being-the-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/keeping-it-fresh-it-being-the-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping it Fresh! (It being the coffee…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got your brewing gear<\/a>.\u00a0 You’ve got your coffee<\/a>.\u00a0 You’ve opened your coffee.\u00a0 And now, you’ve gotta keep that coffee fresh.\u00a0 There’s a lot of advice out there about the best way to store your coffee.\u00a0 And just like coffee gear, there’s a cheap and easy way, and there’s a fancy way.<\/p>\n

Here’s the basics:\u00a0 Keep the coffee out of direct sunlight, keep it sealed, and DO NOT FREEZE it.<\/p>\n

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The Cheap and Easy Way<\/span><\/h3>\n

Whatever coffee you have (we hope it’s ours), make sure the bag it comes in has a one way\u00a0valve (ours does).\u00a0 The\u00a0valve allows the coffee to offgas without exploding the bag.\u00a0 Once coffee completely degasses<\/a>, which usually takes a few weeks, then it starts to get stale.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can leave your coffee in the bag as long as you set it in a cool, dry place.\u00a0 Just keep the bag sealed.\u00a0 And if you have multiple bags of coffee, open them one at a time.\u00a0 Opening the bags introduces oxygen and the coffee will go stale quicker.\u00a0 We want the CO2 to get out, but we don’t want oxygen to get in and make the coffee stale faster.
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That’s all you have to do to keep your coffee fresh.\u00a0 Coffee will offgas for about 3 weeks, and then\u00a0it will start to get stale.\u00a0 Try to use your coffee within a couple weeks\u00a0for best freshness.
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Whatever you do, please don’t freeze it.\u00a0 Freezing coffee does slow the rate at which coffee goes stale while the coffee is in the freezer, but as soon as you take the coffee out, it will go stale at an even faster rate, often just a few days.\u00a0 Your coffee will stay fresh in the bag for a few weeks, which is hopefully long enough for you to use it.<\/span>\u00a0 If you simply must freeze your coffee, the best way to do that is in small portions that you can use up within about 3 days or so.
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One last pro tip:\u00a0 don’t grind your coffee until you’re ready to use it, and only grind as much as you’re going to use.\u00a0 Grinding coffee<\/a> increases the surface area of each particle (for you geometry nerds out there) which will allow the coffee to offgas faster.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fancy\u00a0Way<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you’re a person who likes containers for your things, you can absolutely store your coffee in a container.\u00a0 Try to find something that seals airtight or has a one way valve.\u00a0 If your container doesn’t have a valve, try to open it every few days (shouldn’t be an issue if you drink coffee daily!)\u00a0 We really like\u00a0MiiR’s Coffee Canister<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 It includes an accordion style seal to help\u00a0keep oxygen out.\u00a0 (Again, not an affiliate link, just a great product.)\u00a0 Beyond the fancy canister, there’s really nothing else you need to do to enjoy fresh coffee.
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Keeping your coffee fresh is really easy.\u00a0\u00a0Just keep it out of direct sunlight, in a sealed container, and enjoy regularly!\u00a0 If you’re ready to try some new coffee, try our\u00a0Roaster’s Choice<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 We’ll send you a mystery\u00a0bag of coffee beans that we think are exciting or new!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got your brewing gear.\u00a0 You’ve got your coffee.\u00a0 You’ve opened your coffee.\u00a0 And now, you’ve gotta keep that coffee fresh.\u00a0 There’s a lot of advice out there about the best way to store your coffee.\u00a0 And just like coffee gear, there’s a cheap and easy way, and there’s a fancy way. Here’s the basics:\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":52985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,383,377],"tags":[379,373,374,385,137,207,384,208],"class_list":["post-52852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-about-coffee","category-coffee-gear","category-great-coffee-at-home","tag-4th-wave-coffee","tag-award-winning-coffee","tag-award-winning-coffee-in-portland","tag-coffee-gear","tag-coffee-roaster","tag-coffee-roasters-oregon","tag-great-coffee-at-home","tag-portland-coffee-roasters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52852"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53252,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52852\/revisions\/53252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}