How long can you keep the coffee pot on before burning it and how can you tell when it’s starting to burn?
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How long can you keep the coffee pot on before burning it and how can you tell when it’s starting to burn?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “pot to keep coffee hot“
Coffee has a very short shelf life once it’s brewed. I would remove it from the burner as soon as it’s finished brewing and transfer it to a thermal carafe to retain the heat. Like all things in life, however, it’s best to test it yourself. Brew a pot and leave it on the burner for 10 minutes and see if you can tell the difference from when it was first brewed.
Depending on the type of coffee maker you have usually it’s 2 hours… It takes a lot to start burning it are you making it tht old-fashioned way?… Then just 2 hours min after that it will start to burn you’ll start to smell the yuk smell… otherwise if it’s a normal coffee maker it can’t really burn unless you keep turning it back on after it’s turned off… But normally nooooooo more than 2 times to reheating the coffee…
Tim Hortons, a coffee company in Canada, has a slogan ‘twenty minutes fresh’. Their premise is that after twenty minutes the coffee isn’t fit to drink and they dump it.
At home I haven’t timed it but I have tasted burnt coffee. It takes me awhile to drink my first cup so burned coffee is an issue. The way I combat it is pour the first cup of coffee and put the rest into an insulated carafe. Since it’s not kept on the heat my second cup is just as good as the first.
This is a question I dont have or want first hand knowledge of the answer. My curiosity doesn’t go that far. I can tell you that the premise of the question is valid. You can burn coffee.
At work whoever was in charge of the glasd coffee pot didn’t turn it off when they left for the day and noone else thought of it either. When people came in the next morning the coffee had harden. It didn’t burst the pot but the coffee couldn’t be scraped or washed out. Had to buy another pot.
Don’t know how to tell when it starts but would say if noone has drank any for an hour or so it should be turned off. Wasn’t monitored so don’t know how long it took to ruin the pot but an overnight will definitely do it.
The other answers I see here are right on. I love coffee so for me personally, brewed coffee any older than about 30 minutes is already beyond its “drinkability”. A thermal carafe is a good idea.
I usually make espresso or a single pour-over serving of coffee. But then, I’m pretty much a pain in the a** when it comes to coffee.
My coffee maker does not have a heating plate underneath the pot. It does have a thermal pot into which the coffee drips. It will keep the coffee around 5 hours. If you make your coffee in a machine which keeps the coffee hot on a burner, I recommend you pour the coffee immediately into a good thermal container, e.g., air pot, thermos bottle, or other thermal container.
It starts to burn as soon as it is brewed and kept on a hotplate. The less coffee is in the pot, the more quickly it burns.
My first preference is an insulated flask which just stays hot. no heat required, no risk of burning.
Next choice is to let the coffee get cold and nuke each cup as I need it. It does not degrade the coffee nearly as much as keeping it hot does. Just remember that warm coffee does not need as long as cold coffee.
If my only option is the hotplate, it’s good for about half an hour. Even though some coffee pots have a 2 hour timer on the hotplate, this is too long. The coffee us suffering badly by the time it cuts off.
How long you keep it on is up to you.
And the only way you can tell it’s burning is by smelling and tasting it.
How long that takes depends on your coffee maker, and your taste. I can’t tell you how long that’s going to be.
Keeping a coffee pot on allows burning the brew because the hotplate under the pot is usually set to a higher temperature which causes the brew to evaporate. The evaporating water takes the caffeine with it making the coffee less strong and less effective. It’s better to turn off the coffee machine and use a microwave to reheat the cup of coffee.
You can keep the coffee pot on until all the water boils off. You know you’re getting close, because the stuff in the pot is pretty thick.
Overheated coffee smells just awful. You should be able to smell it before it is burnt. I usually turn the heat under the pot off even if there is coffee left in the pot. Reheated coffee tastes better than overheated coffee.
I take mine off and pour into a carafe to prevent loss of flavor immediately. Nuanced flavors in a good roast are lost within about three minutes of continued heat in an open pot.
Peet’s
Normal glass coffee pots will cook coffee too much after about one hour. The warmer temperatures are too high. The smell is going to begin at that time and get worse.
Eight O’Clock
Usually coffee after an hour begins to turn in flavor.. At work people slide the pot off the burner part way to reduce the heat contact and this helps it last for two plus hours…
It depends upon the heating element. I HATE burnt coffee. A holdover from my days working in administration. Almost every office coffee maker will inevitably burn the coffee. The burnt smell is a singular odor that is unmistakable. If you can’t smell it, you may be unable to taste it. Thankfully, we have a coffeemaker at home which will heat the coffee for a brief period of time at a low enough temperature that won’t burn the coffee.
Coffee shouldn’t be on the heat for more than 30 minutes. After that it starts to turn bitter. I turn the heating element on my coffee maker off as soon as the brewing process stops. I would rather drink room temp coffee than bitter hot coffee.
Original question: How long can you keep the coffee pot on before burning it and how can you tell when it’s starting to burn?
It burns immediately. Drink your coffee fresh, and if you want another cup later, brew some more. Keeping coffee on a warming burner for any length of time is a bad idea. If you want to keep your coffee warm, use a thermos.
Victor Allen’s
Flavor elements in brewed coffee oxidize over time, and the rate of oxidation increases dramatically with temperature. Most people find the results of that process to be unpleasant.
But how long it takes for you to reject coffee that’s been sitting on the hotplate depends on your own sensitivity to the changes and the temperature of the hotplate.
Most chain restaurants set an upper limit of 30 minutes before the coffee is dumped, and the fussier ones (like Starbucks or Tim Horton’s) cut that time back to 20 minutes.
If instead you keep your brewed coffee in a thermal carafe, most experts (including the folks at Starbucks) believe you have about 30 minutes.
Your tastebuds are the best indicator, but most people can also notice the change in aroma that indicates it’s time to dump.
How can you tell when it starts to burn? Smell it.