A couple weeks ago I had bought one of our favorite organic coffee blends from Costco, however, you have to grind them before you leave or you’ll have whole beans. I forgot to do this very important step.
And after buying freshly brewed coffee a few times the past week (cha-ching!), I said enough is a enough, I gotta get these beans grounded. As much as I love Costco, I did not want to go back in there just to use there grinder so I was thinking… what could I do?
And for a couple seconds I actually considered trying to brew coffee with whole beans. I didn’t but do wonder if it would have worked, has anyone tried this??
Then I had a light bulb moment… I can use my Vitamix! Yay!
So to learn how to use the Vitamix (or any high powered blender like a Blendtec or a Ninja) watch this video:
Ok, if you don’t have time to watch the video here ya go:
- Pour your coffee beans into blender
- Snap lid on- make sure it’s ON all the way
- Blend on the 8-10 setting on variable for 10 seconds (I assume medium on other blenders. Blend longer for a finer ground)
- Wa-la! Freshly ground coffee
- Enjoy!
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DUH!!!! I never thought of that! This is today’s Daily Duh for sure!
lol I know how you feel Stacy!
Awesome! Just curious…what do you brew your coffee in? I stopped drinking coffee a few months ago because My coffee maker is all plastic. I’ve been looking into how to make it without plastic.
I hate to say it but mine is plastic on the inside 🙁 I believe there are with stainless steel on the inside or you could use a french press.
If you come across any, PLEASE let me know!
We use the Bodum French Press – the only plastic component is the lid, which doesn’t actually contact the brewing coffee.
Great tutorial!!! I prefer freshly ground coffee, anyway – we’re coffee snobs sometimes, I guess, so freshness is important to us!! I hope you don’t mind, but I linked your tutorial at my “66 uses” post. I haven’t actually used my Vitamix yet for grinding coffee since we have a separate grinder so this is the perfect resource!
(http://dotalanecdotes.blogspot.com/2013/02/66-awesome-things-to-do-with-Vitamix.html)
I love your blog, by the way.
I have a vitamix! And I love coffee! But I have a coffee grinder, and now that just feels kinda redundant, lol!
Whole Beans. Absolutely. We have a grinder (actually 2 . . . one for regular and one for decaf.) Love the freshness of fresh ground coffee beans.
Laurel
mama of 12
Thanks so much, I got my vitamix last night after years of waiting. I am so excited to try this for coffee. We used a perculator for about a year but then my coffee started tasting weird. I tried every method of cleaning and it didn’t improve. We just made the switch to the french press and it makes better coffee than the perculator. Also as a surprise my year old made me coffee in bed, very sweet but she used 1 cup of whole beans. It tasted like water with a hint of coffee flavor, I wouldn’t reccomend it.