12 oz. bags of coffee are driving me crazy. How can we get back to 16 oz?

When coffee is roasted, it loses a significant amount of moisture. That moisture is a high enough percentage of the bean, that when roasted, that weight evaporates and the roasted bean becomes lighter than the green coffee bean.

That 12 ounce pound was once 16 ounces of inedible seed, and through processing, became 12 ounces of delicious coffee. Long story short, you still bought a 16 ounce pound of coffee.

Much like buying a steak at a restaurant, if you buy a 12 ounce steak, it won't weigh 12 ounces when it makes it to the table due to fat loss in the cooking process, but you still pay for 12 ounces because that's how much the raw product weighs.

Source: I'm a coffee roaster

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