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Brewing coffee with too deep a bed forces a coarser grind, which lowers extraction efficiency and wastes coffee grounds.

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  1. Scott Rao

    Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso

    If a bed is too deep, one has to use a very coarse grind. The result in the cup may or may not be good enough, but the extraction level will be low, which is inefficient, in the sense of wasting coffee material.

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