My coffee pot has a selection for “Bold” or “Regular” brew-strength. Why would anyone use the “Regular” setting when you can get the same result using less coffee and the “Bold” setting?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “bold setting on coffee maker“
Using the bold strength means more acidity and bitterness. If you like it that way, it is a good solution. I prefer a medium roast low bitterness coffee (a nice balance between coffee and roasted notes), and drink it black. Bold is good if using sugar and cream, but not for me for straight black coffee.
The bold setting programs the machine to dispense the water more slowly than the regular mode. Ideally the water extraction process should take approximately 4 minutes, and the bold setting would be preferable. As for the coffee to water ratio that should not change depending on the setting. The recommended ratio is 1.5 – 2 tablespoons of ground coffee for every 6 ounces of water. Personally I would recommend that you try the above ratio and use the bold setting.
I never saw “bold,” but I had a coffee maker that had different settings, and I wondered about that too. It seems to me that regular is more cost effective. One can always put less coffee in to begin with. I knew a woman who would make half a pot of weak coffee every morning, drinking one cup while pouring the rest down the drain. I tried some of her watered down coffee. Ugh.
What most of the “bold” options do is brew slower, allowing more coffee extraction. When coffee is brewed, the hot water dissolves several substances from the beans. This is knows as extraction. There are several flavor compounds and oils that dissolve at different rates. Some require longer or hotter water to extract, while some extract easily (this is the supposed benefit of cold brew, that the more bitter compounds don’t extract or dissolve in cold water, so it’s less acidic).
What most of the “bold” options do is brew slower, allowing more coffee extraction. They don’t really make it “bolder” in a good sense. They just take a bit longer and extract more. And yes, they do extract a bit more of the same compounds you were getting on the regular setting, so in that sense your assumption would be correct, you just get more of the same flavor. BUT, longer brewing can also extract compounds you don’t want. A lot of the less dissolvable compounds that come out with longer than normal brewing are bitter, and have off flavors. And some are good. But in general, over extracting is a bad thing. And most coffee makers are designed on their normal setting to extract properly. Extracting longer often causes over extraction.
So try it. It is possible you like the bold setting, because you like the different flavor profile. But it’s also possible yo don’t like it as well. But in either case, it is not just a stronger version of the same thing. Often it is a little bitter.
Sometimes stronger isn’t better. For real. A light roast bean isn’t going to be better for having more or less hot water run through it. The right amount is the right amount.
Your taste buds tell you what you like. I used to like super dark coffee, black and evil. I still like my coffee black, but I am cool with easing back on the density so that I can taste the finer points of the lighter roasts.
noooooo thats not what that means you have a choice to use on ur coffee maker for bold or Regular its ur choice sometimes my wife will make coffee but use not as much coffee grounds to make a full pot so she will use half the grounds put it on bold then it comes out the same ….but always always use a coffee filter
I have both the regular and bold settings on my Ninja coffee maker. The former makes your standard drip coffee while the latter makes a stronger brew. Theoritcally you can use less coffee grounds with that setting, but the end result won’t be like a “regular”. Use *bold* if you want strong coffee that pairs well with cream and/or sweetener. Use the regular for a standard type of brew that can be taken black or however you like it.
~ Kort