Is it best to use a blade grinder or grind coffee in advance?

While we prefer to use a burr grinder to grind coffee fresh every time we brew, we realize that these grinders are often expensive and not everyone can afford them. Often the choice lies between grinding in advance suited to the brew method or grinding fresh each time using a blade grinder.  

While grinding fresh is ideal, blade grinders chop the beans unevenly rather than truly grind them. The result is a mixture of varying grind sizes that are difficult to control and impossible to replicate. So while there are more aromatic flavors present in the coffee grounds, the coffee will frequently have sour, bitter or unpleasant flavors from an uneven extraction.

In our tests, we find that coffee that is ground to the ideal setting for a particular brew method ahead of time produces a more even extraction and overall better tasting cup of coffee than blade grinders.

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