That -- coffee research drum roll, please -- was darn close to the .33 tablespoons per ounce Holy Commandment (2 / 6 = .33). So in an aroundabout way I confirmed what expert coffee brewers had known way before me: using 2 tablespoons of coffee for every 6 ounces of water produces an excellent cup of coffee.
1 Activate Your Free Trial!  National Broadcasting Co., Inc. (NBC) National Broadcasting Co., Inc. (NBC), major American commercial broadcasting company, since 2004 the television component of NBC Universal, which is jointly owned by General Electric Co. (GE) and Vivendi. zoom_in.
That's consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983. NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesn't own AOL, so Huffington Post isn't affiliated with them. But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates the illusion of choice, Frugal Dad says. While some big sites, like Digg and Reddit aren't owned by any of the corporations, Time Warner owns news sites read by millions of Americans every year. Here's the graphic: Frugal Dad.