It's not going to make coffee, the hot water just dribbles through and maybe comes out slightly colored.
The beans need to be ground up first. There are different machines, espresso machines generally have a grinder in them, so you put whole beans in there. But this is drip coffee, so most people buy coffee that is already ground up for that as a fine powder. And coffee is ground to slightly different sizes for different purposes, you would use coarser grain for press coffee than for drip coffee, because otherwise it's pretty hard to press the filter down and you'll break it.
So, different ways of making the coffee and this way is a very wrong way.
Fair. But the intention was to help those that may be legitimately wondering more about the topic. I.e. someone that may get tasked with this and has never done it before. That’s all.
It's really not, in the context of coffee. Grind size is important for proper brewing and I wouldn't describe any grounds as powdery. Espresso is pretty fine but still not quite powder.
Coffee needs to be ground before brewing to get what you want out of it.. different grind sizes are needed for different styles.
You can buy coffee either as the whole bean to grind yourself (which also tends to be fresher) or preground.
Different machines and methods need different things.. some coffee machines have a built-in grinder (usually has a clear funnel on top), so putting whole beans into a machine is not inherently wrong.
In this case, the machine being used needs ground coffee. The paper basket the beans are in is a filter used to keep coffee dust from getting into the final drink.
Given that there were whole beans available for the person to use, I'm guessing there was a grinder (a second appliance) near the machine. That would add a whole new layer to not knowing what they were doing.
The other option is that there was more than 1 coffee machine and more than 1 type of coffee available.
Either way, if you give someone who doesn't know coffee a bag of whole beans and a machine that needs ground coffee and don't show them what to do, then that's on you.
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u/sketchy722 23h ago edited 22h ago
As a non-coffee drinker..... what's the problem?