Your cup of coffee isn't everyone's cup of tea.

If you drink a lot of coffee, you’ve probably got your coffee-making system sorted out. Maybe you’re a French press person, maybe you’re on the pour-over tip, maybe you use a Chemex to turn every morning into your own private science fair. Maybe you pick yours up on the way to the office. Or at the office. Or maybe you just have a trusty drip machine you like. Point is, you’ve either got your preferred way of coffee, or you don’t care about coffee. You’re all set!

But as Sartre said, Hell is other people.

What if you’re a fancy-coffee brewer with guests who only drink “regular coffee”? Not to stereotype, but let’s stereotype: they’re usually older. Maybe not especially adventurous. Either family members or people you knew before you diverged into the deep, dark wood of coffee connoisseurship. They just like what they like. They’re not just uninterested in your burr-milled pour-over Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, they’re actively repulsed by it, and you’re not going to change their minds.

Or what if you don’t drink coffee at all, but your guests do? You probably don’t understand the sheer horror of the idea of a house without coffee. Fine, you’re one of the lucky ones. You escaped. But take it from an addict: your guests are going to be hurting.

You could just be a dick. You could demand that your guests conform to your preferences. You’re within your rights to refuse to make the slightest effort to make them comfortable or happy. There’s no law against being a dick.

Or you could spend a few dollars on a good drip coffee maker. And we don’t mean some sub-mediocre Mr. Coffee piece of crap - we’ll be selling you those next week. This Krups machine makes “regular coffee” the right way, with a cascading brew head that uses all of the coffee grounds, not just dampens a little crater right in the middle. And it’s got a water filter built into it, because if there’s one thing all houseguests have in common, it’s that they think your tap water tastes weird.

The Krups brand is right in that fancy-but-not-too-fancy sweet spot. Your drip-drinking guests will see that you went a little above and beyond, without trying to force your cosmopolitan coffee values down their throats. It just makes a good cup of coffee.

All of those cultures whose sophisticated coffee traditions you prefer to grabbing a cup at Dunkin’ Donuts? They all consider hospitality a duty and an honor. (Except maybe the French.) Be a good host. But when you go visit them, you might want to pack that Aeropress. As we’re saying, it sucks to start the day without your favorite coffee.