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Was making coffee and considering throwing out my K-cup coffee maker because I almost exclusively use a French press now, and got curious what other people did
Hell yeah! When I have the time l'll grind some beans by hands (which smells amazing!) then use a french press. Then I'll heat and steam some milk to go with it.
Unfortunately I don't always have the time and then I'll drink the sad, bitter filter coffee they have at work. It's kinda gross, but the energy boost is still nice.
I use coffee grounds in a Keurig adapter doohickey in my hand-me-down single cup coffee maker.
I'm sure there are better ways of making tastier coffee, but I'm very corn syrup damaged so I think the effort would be wasted on me since I'd be dumping creamer on it anyways.
I've just got a lil stove top percolator, makes about 3 cups and that's more than enough. I don't drink much coffee at home, gets me all jitters up and nothing to do with it usually. At work I plow through that stuff. I buy like, pretty good beans. I dunno much about coffee.
For me it's whole beans (light roast). I like the Aeropress, but I use a 1-cup Bialetti moka pot 90% of the time because it uses less coffee and the result is still pretty good. In the mornings I usually add a splash of milk and after lunch no milk. I never use sugar or any other sweeteners.
During spring and summer I usually make cold brew once a week, but once it gets colder I drink either filter or aeropress coffee, depending on how much of a rush I'm in.
standard american brew machine. I'd like to be able to use my percolator again sometime soon but I have an induction stove now and it doesn't work anymore
Putting two spoons of ground down coffee in the turkish thingy (cesva or someshit?) on top of tap water, sometimes with a bit of cinnamon,, and let it sit on small heat until foam forms (50 50 i fuck up and it starts boiling, but whatevs, it doesn't immidiately goes mega bad).
I have a relatively nice grinder and an aeropress. I've used traditional presses, moka pots, a v60, and so on but I definitely prefer the aeropress. It's extremely easy and consistent. Once you have your recipe dialed there's almost nothing you can do to fuck it up so I just never get any astringency or acidity.
That said the grinder is definitely more important than the brew method. If you have $70 to spend; get a $65 grinder and get a $5 press or v60 at a thrift shop. You definitely want an electric grinder with nice ceramic burrs if you can afford it.
I used a hand grinder for years. A very nice and accurate one. The idea of using a hand grinder + moka pot was very romantic to me, but in practice it's a huge pain in the ass and the coffee will never come out as good as a silly looking plastic aeropress.
Most of the time it's trash motel coffee, at home i have an espresso maker and make lungos.
I grind some medium roast beans and drink a couple of pots from my Mr. Coffee drip maker. Oat milk, no sugar, 34 oz mug.
not daily, but yeah I'll make a French press about once a week and that gives me 2-3 servings. Hot I always drink black. Whatever I don't drink on the first day, I pour into a glass and keep in the fridge, then serve with ice and almond milk.
I like the Chemex too but I don't own one personally. I'd only use that on weekends tho, the pourover takes a while.
If I'm at a cafe I typically just get espresso.
Big ol pot of drip sludge at work
Aeropress is nice for at home or on the go
I use a Moccamaster machine, it makes pretty decent coffee
I have a single cup pour over. Make 2 cups of coffee (30g) in a thermos and then drink it for a while
Maoist
I just drink the cheapest instant shit I can buy
I don’t know that I’ve ever met someone who regularly drinks instant coffee
Whaaaaa but it's the cheapest. I thought it would be more common?!
Maybe it’s different where you are but in the US trash-tier standard coffee, like grocery store brand, is pretty cheap already so it’s not that big of a difference.
Yes, by a few different methods:
Filtered drip from the machine for the morning coffee to go or when I don’t want to put thought into it. It makes serviceable but not great coffee.
Chemex pour over. This is a tricksy method as I’ve made some absolutely brilliant cups of coffee with it, but also some very meh cups, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.
Aeropress. My preferred “proper” way to make a cup these days. Straightforward method, consistent, works with just about every variety/origin/processing type of bean. Only shortcoming is it’s not efficient for making large amounts of coffee.
Moka pot aka the fauxpresso machine. The one that gets used the least, nice for certain varieties but too fussy for regular use.
I bought at walmart a 7 dollar tiny coffee maker that only has an on/off switch and if I'm gonna be home for multiple cups I just pour additional water in the tank after I pour a cup out.
I use a phin for single serve, but if my partner wants coffee too, I'll use a french press.
I just inherited old roommates coffee gear so I didn't choose it, but it was free so I upgraded a DeLonghi ECP3420 with an IMS competition basket and a bottomless portafilter handle off of ebay and I use a breville smart grinder pro, which lets me save 1 and 2 cup auto grind times which makes it easy to get the same amount every time.
I also got the normcore spring loaded tamper which is the only one I could find (at the time) with a spring loaded level keeper and a separate calibrated tamping spring. The other "spring loaded" tamper I tried only had spring loaded level keepers with the actual tamping head rigidly attached to the handle (like what the point if you still have to estimate the tamping pressure yourself but you now also need to estimate the feel of the spring loaded level keeper in addition to your desired tamping pressure). With the normcore one I can just hold the level keeper down and push the handle fully to get the same tamp pressure.
Now I just need to get a spirograph based wdt tool because my basic distributor and manual wdt is hit or miss.
Cheap Aldi Fair Trade whole beans into decent hand grinder set at "good soil fine" (I have a Timemore Chestnut C2, but others would likely be just as good), throw it into a Clever Dripper with whatever filters were cheapest when I last needed a box, fill w/ ~350mL of boiling water, let it sit for 6 minutes, stir, drain into my cup with w/e sweetner is at hand.
My coffee maker is broken so I have to boil up the ground coffee on my stove, it gets the job done.
Usually take some preground coffee and put it in a coffee maker. If have time though I usually have some coffee beans that I'll grind for something a bit fresher. I also prep some cold brew overnight during the summer mostly.
I've also tried doing a Turkish style coffee. Its coffee grounds in water which you then put over a flame until just before it starts boiling, which you then drink with the grounds still in the coffee. I've been able to get it to work a couple times although l don't have a cezve.
Yes. Just use a simple drip and have a grinder for fresh grounds each day. Have a metal reusable filter I wash out so I don't have to waste paper.
mortar and pestle for grinding then french press, idgaf
hoxhaist-primitivist or something on the coffee making alignment chart
Espresso machine
I usually make about 650 ml a little over 3 cups. In my Chemex when I have time in my preset coffee maker when I don't.