@heartny I hate the taste of coffee!! And I prefer enough sleep to the need for coffee. If it is absolutely necessary to have caffeine - I prefer chocolate.
@heartny same. my partner does, but he gets his ice coffee out, or occasionally i buy a bottle of cold brew or ice coffee for him to keep in the fridge.
@Superllama7 Yep, breakfast this morning is my leftover prime rib from last night, two fresh eggs (from our chickens) over easy, toasted English muffin and hot black coffee from the Aeropress. Life is good.
I fill 2 k cup thingys with coffee then put one in the machine and push the button then wander off to take a piss and come back and the coffee is done and go check my email and slurp coffee. When that cup is finished I go back into the kitchen and take out the used k cup and throw it in the sink the put the unused on in the machine and push the button by this time I need to take another piss and do so and when I come back the second cup of coffee is done then I get back to read news and bullshitting with friends from high school while sluping the second cup of coffee when it is gone I start doing stuff.
I selected “Basic Coffee Pot” as the nearest choice, but it’s a very good “basic” coffee pot. I prefer the drip style of coffee. It makes decent coffee, and after all, the important thing is the bean, and the quality of roast. I knew, when I retired, that I’d be taking a step down in quality, since I live in the middle of no where, and I’m not going to roast my own beans.
It’s a compromise, but I’m okay with it. Currently I’m drinking a light roasted Tanzanian Peaberry, and I like it. I make a half pot of coffee in the morning, using the amount of ground beans that would be used for a pot (because I loathe weak coffee).
Man, it’s getting close to bed time for me, and now I want coffee. It’s one of life’s blessings that I really love.
with the Motif Essential Pour Over Coffee Brewer w/ Thermal Carafe I bought here in July - makes excellent coffee in any amount and keeps it warm for hours.
I’d like an espresso maker but not something that produces
“Specialty Brew” that is like espresso but maybe not actual espresso?
V60, espresso machine (Gaggia Classic and fancypants grinder), or cold brew, depending on season and mood. I’m serious about coffee, though I actually prefer tea.
I have had the other version of this machine with the glass carafe for several years now and it’s been an all around solid appliance. Whoever designed the cleaning cycle needs a swift kick in the face, but that’s probably just my opinion and I’m kind of weird about how things work sometimes. I use the rich brew(with filtered water and I grind probably about every week or so) pretty much exclusively though I have used the over ice option a few times. It’s okay, just not my cup of tea. If it’s still being made when my current one goes out, I’ll exchange some of the green paper that I earn from the work I do for another one. And that’s pretty much the highest compliment I can give to an inanimate object.
@sixstringslim: when prompted to clean it (or if it starts behaving erratically), fill the reservoir with the recommended vinegar/water ratio per instructions, but hold the CLEAN button until the clock changes to “03:59.” That’s the 4 hour clean, as opposed to the standard 1 hour clean. It will prevent the CLEAN prompt from occurring as often, and get rid of strange, mis-timed brewing behavior.
I have an AeroPress that makes coffee that I like a lot. Then I have emergency Waka instant coffee that I also like a lot.
But I have always fantasized about coffee not requiring morning pre-coffee preparation. (Can’t drink Waka every morning. Too expensive. And probably less good than the AeroPress coffee.) otoh, $80 is a lot for a coffee machine that is not a legit espresso machine.
I know, I’ll drink coffee.
Then I’ll understand whether or not I should buy this coffee maker.
@InnocuousFarmer@mike808
A big difference to me is taste. I do not add sweetener or a milk or faux-milk product to my coffee.
A good third wave roast doesn’t need it and has a very unique taste, even the same beans from the same farm roasted by 2 different shops won’t be exactly the same.
There is room in this world for all coffee lovers, even if some of us are more snobby about it than others.
@Cerridwyn@mike808 Yeah, I’ll pay $3/cup for some of the better instant coffee and figure it’s actually 6 times better, or whatever. Can’t do that every day though. It adds up.
Back when I tried them, I didn’t like Voila as well as Swift or Sudden. Whatever I had from Voila had more non-coffee flavors, when I only wanted coffee. Of the four, I think Waka’s cheapest (around $1/cup from Amazon), and still good enough to be better than nothing. And still too expensive to drink very much.
@InnocuousFarmer@mike808
my favorite local roaster sells Voila made from their coffee. It’s why it attracts me the most. I know who’s coffee I’m drinking.
In an SCAA approved drip machine made by Breville. Almost like a pour over done manually but the machine makes it without me doing it. have had the machine for over three years now and have been happy brewing at least a pot a day for that entire time. when it dies i’ll get a similar replacement machine. thanks for asking.
@j37hr0 The other reason I’ve seen for the “5 beeps of death” is caused by air having been sucked into the pump. Unplug the unit, remove the carafe and water reservoir, tip it on its side, and depress the water fill plunger in the center where the fill reservoir installs into.
Ninja. I’ve had one for a year and a half. Love it. Keurig brewed coffee, while convenient, is watery and uninspiring when compared to Ninja brewed coffee. I always use the iced or specialty setting for near espresso strength. The next time you hear someone pronounce it “eXpresso,” interrupt them to tell them about the alarming results you just received from recent “S-RAYS” you had taken at Urgent Care.
Ninja note: when prompted to clean it (or if it starts behaving erratically), fill the reservoir with the recommended vinegar/water ratio per instructions, but hold the CLEAN button until the clock changes to “03:59.” That’s the 4 hour clean, as opposed to the standard 1 hour clean. It will prevent the CLEAN prompt from occurring as often, and get rid of strange, mis-timed brewing behavior.
I use the Bluetooth speaker/K-cup machine that I bought on Meh a while back. I’m really surprised at how many people don’t drink coffee. I can’t even imagine life without it. It’s so tasty, warm, and I think, comforting. For me it’s not even about the caffeine, it’s the flavor. Tho, it tears my tummy to shreds. Worth it. I suffer the consequences because the rewards are worth it!
I have an old-school 1950’s glass carafe stove top percolator with freshly ground organic coffee that I use to make coffee for my wife. I personally drink tea only.
Aeropress or drip or cold brew. If I make it myself.
Or some fancy method I’m experimenting with.
Not making it myself? Just however. Including burnt. (So long as it’s unsweetened or barely sweetened.)
Without milk. Or with milk. Or with “alt milk“.
Or itself, by it’s own lonesome.
Still good and necessary.
Even boiled coffee, boiled in a cooking pot (the old cowboy/traildrive way), has virtues.
@f00l@JnKL And you are to blame that they just updated the APA system of documenting footnotes and references after a 10 year hiatus. Now I have to actually go look at it to see what is different. Shit. Oh wait. It needs to be Fuck. That is a certain scapegoat’s fault too.
At last count, I had 30-some-odd different coffee brewing devices and I’ve added a few since then. I considered getting today’s meh deal, but the Essentials Motif Pour over thing I got a few weeks ago is still sitting here unopened and I was able to resist today’s offering… I’m not jonesing quite hard enough yet. (“Hi. I’m Baqui and I’m an addict…”)
While on vacation in Istanbul earlier this month, I looked around a bit for a balance syphon but did not find one. (Without the freedom to overspend granted by being on vacation, plus the amazingly great exchange rate of US dollars to Turkish Lira, I don’t think I’ll be able to buy myself a balance syphon given their normal price tags. I did get some excellent rugs tho, 78+ years old, handmade with natural dyes and tribal patterns… Given what real rugs cost tho, I cannot see myself starting to collect them.
Regardless, at home I almost always use a 1.5 liter French press with freshly ground coffee to make 1-2 days worth of coffee. I have several espresso machines and occasionally use one of them when I want something with less caffeine later in the day. At work, it is usually freshly ground coffee with a crappy old automatic drip brewer.
Pour the water over the grounds and stir. After 3 minutes, stir again so the grounds sink to the bottom of the cup. Stop drinking when you hit the grounds. #nofilter.
I don’t drink coffee, so there is no brewing at home.
@heartny same
@heartny ditto
@heartny I hate the taste of coffee!! And I prefer enough sleep to the need for coffee. If it is absolutely necessary to have caffeine - I prefer chocolate.
@heartny same. my partner does, but he gets his ice coffee out, or occasionally i buy a bottle of cold brew or ice coffee for him to keep in the fridge.
Cold brew in a cold brew pitcher.
I don’t do coffee
Microwave the water and then put the brown powder in it (or more likely, the bag of dried leaves).
@awk Ditto first line.
Tea bags.
I don’t. I can’t stand the taste of coffee.
Cold brew pitcher and single serve infuser from Meh.
Classic $15 Mellita glass pot with #6 filter cone. Blade grinder.
Aeropress. So easy and so good
@Superllama7 Yep, breakfast this morning is my leftover prime rib from last night, two fresh eggs (from our chickens) over easy, toasted English muffin and hot black coffee from the Aeropress. Life is good.
Mostly get my brew from QT (midwest gas/convenience store). Cheap, hot, and not over-roasted Seattle bong-water.
At home, it’s instant (Community), because SWMBO brews decaf in the Cuisinart, and homey don’t play dat.
@mike808
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/i-dont-do-decaf
@narfcake Indeed.
I am part of the invasion by the pod people.
I fill 2 k cup thingys with coffee then put one in the machine and push the button then wander off to take a piss and come back and the coffee is done and go check my email and slurp coffee. When that cup is finished I go back into the kitchen and take out the used k cup and throw it in the sink the put the unused on in the machine and push the button by this time I need to take another piss and do so and when I come back the second cup of coffee is done then I get back to read news and bullshitting with friends from high school while sluping the second cup of coffee when it is gone I start doing stuff.
I selected “Basic Coffee Pot” as the nearest choice, but it’s a very good “basic” coffee pot. I prefer the drip style of coffee. It makes decent coffee, and after all, the important thing is the bean, and the quality of roast. I knew, when I retired, that I’d be taking a step down in quality, since I live in the middle of no where, and I’m not going to roast my own beans.
It’s a compromise, but I’m okay with it. Currently I’m drinking a light roasted Tanzanian Peaberry, and I like it. I make a half pot of coffee in the morning, using the amount of ground beans that would be used for a pot (because I loathe weak coffee).
Man, it’s getting close to bed time for me, and now I want coffee. It’s one of life’s blessings that I really love.
In an SCAA approved drip machine
Or a siphon brewer (sorta a fake one)
Or a hario pourover
Or I just go to Augies
/image augies coffee
with the Motif Essential Pour Over Coffee Brewer w/ Thermal Carafe I bought here in July - makes excellent coffee in any amount and keeps it warm for hours.
I’d like an espresso maker but not something that produces
so, meh …
@stolicat - I got up to say this. Much earlier, of course.
I have a Ninja Coffee/Tea Bar. It’s pretty damn great.
I use my electric tea kettle (which I swear is one of my favorite things ever) and a basic metal pour over coffee filter on top of my coffee cup.
If I just need a quick small cup, either the Nespresso, Keurig, ESE pods, or the Scoop.
If it’s a small cup but I don’t need it as quick, I’ll grind some beans and use the french press, Aeropress, espresso machine, or moka pot.
If I need more than that, either the larger drip (pour over) or do multiple espresso shots for a large Americano.
The percolator gets the least use. I can’t drink that much!
/giphy Fry coffee
@narfcake I think that’s just before time slows for him. Great episode.
Ninja hot and cold brewing system. Love it!
just instant coffee from Germany (it’s the darkest I can find) or what ever I can get at the local c store. I’m usually running late for everything
Basic coffee pot for special occasions, instant coffee at other times.
/giphy instant coffee
Mr. Coffee. 4 scoops of good ground coffee, water and get 12 (4 - 20 oz) cups of coffee to wake me up.
V60, espresso machine (Gaggia Classic and fancypants grinder), or cold brew, depending on season and mood. I’m serious about coffee, though I actually prefer tea.
Keurig for my first morning cup, then Nespresso for my second cup. Nespresso makes the best coffee.
Takeya Cold Brew ($17 on Amazon) and a coffee grinder. I’m an iced coffee guy. For the few times I want hot coffee, I have a French press.
I have had the other version of this machine with the glass carafe for several years now and it’s been an all around solid appliance. Whoever designed the cleaning cycle needs a swift kick in the face, but that’s probably just my opinion and I’m kind of weird about how things work sometimes. I use the rich brew(with filtered water and I grind probably about every week or so) pretty much exclusively though I have used the over ice option a few times. It’s okay, just not my cup of tea. If it’s still being made when my current one goes out, I’ll exchange some of the green paper that I earn from the work I do for another one. And that’s pretty much the highest compliment I can give to an inanimate object.
@sixstringslim: when prompted to clean it (or if it starts behaving erratically), fill the reservoir with the recommended vinegar/water ratio per instructions, but hold the CLEAN button until the clock changes to “03:59.” That’s the 4 hour clean, as opposed to the standard 1 hour clean. It will prevent the CLEAN prompt from occurring as often, and get rid of strange, mis-timed brewing behavior.
I have an AeroPress that makes coffee that I like a lot. Then I have emergency Waka instant coffee that I also like a lot.
But I have always fantasized about coffee not requiring morning pre-coffee preparation. (Can’t drink Waka every morning. Too expensive. And probably less good than the AeroPress coffee.) otoh, $80 is a lot for a coffee machine that is not a legit espresso machine.
I know, I’ll drink coffee.
Then I’ll understand whether or not I should buy this coffee maker.
@InnocuousFarmer
if you want the best every instant try
https://voila.coffee/
almost tastes like the real thing
@Cerridwyn @InnocuousFarmer
At $3/cup, pass. Folgers is like 50¢/cup or less.
6 times worse/better doesn’t taste like it.
@InnocuousFarmer @mike808
A big difference to me is taste. I do not add sweetener or a milk or faux-milk product to my coffee.
A good third wave roast doesn’t need it and has a very unique taste, even the same beans from the same farm roasted by 2 different shops won’t be exactly the same.
There is room in this world for all coffee lovers, even if some of us are more snobby about it than others.
@Cerridwyn @mike808 Yeah, I’ll pay $3/cup for some of the better instant coffee and figure it’s actually 6 times better, or whatever. Can’t do that every day though. It adds up.
Back when I tried them, I didn’t like Voila as well as Swift or Sudden. Whatever I had from Voila had more non-coffee flavors, when I only wanted coffee. Of the four, I think Waka’s cheapest (around $1/cup from Amazon), and still good enough to be better than nothing. And still too expensive to drink very much.
@InnocuousFarmer @mike808
my favorite local roaster sells Voila made from their coffee. It’s why it attracts me the most. I know who’s coffee I’m drinking.
In an SCAA approved drip machine made by Breville. Almost like a pour over done manually but the machine makes it without me doing it. have had the machine for over three years now and have been happy brewing at least a pot a day for that entire time. when it dies i’ll get a similar replacement machine. thanks for asking.
@bayportbob
you rock!
Instant.
Maxwell House has disappeared from the shelves for some reason, so I’ve been buying store brand.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Using the Motif I got here a couple of months ago when my Ninja coffee bar died. The 5 beeps of death. Wouldn’t even run a cleaning cycle.
@j37hr0 hey what a break, it’s the deal of the day today.
@j37hr0 The other reason I’ve seen for the “5 beeps of death” is caused by air having been sucked into the pump. Unplug the unit, remove the carafe and water reservoir, tip it on its side, and depress the water fill plunger in the center where the fill reservoir installs into.
@narfcake nice tip! But it’s in the landfill now.
Ninja. I’ve had one for a year and a half. Love it. Keurig brewed coffee, while convenient, is watery and uninspiring when compared to Ninja brewed coffee. I always use the iced or specialty setting for near espresso strength. The next time you hear someone pronounce it “eXpresso,” interrupt them to tell them about the alarming results you just received from recent “S-RAYS” you had taken at Urgent Care.
Ninja note: when prompted to clean it (or if it starts behaving erratically), fill the reservoir with the recommended vinegar/water ratio per instructions, but hold the CLEAN button until the clock changes to “03:59.” That’s the 4 hour clean, as opposed to the standard 1 hour clean. It will prevent the CLEAN prompt from occurring as often, and get rid of strange, mis-timed brewing behavior.
In a proper caldron, of course!
And the title/poll never said it had to be coffee that was being brewed.
@rockblossom
/image witch’s evil brew
@rockblossom Oh look! They are brewing @snapster
I don’t drink coffee.
I use the Bluetooth speaker/K-cup machine that I bought on Meh a while back. I’m really surprised at how many people don’t drink coffee. I can’t even imagine life without it. It’s so tasty, warm, and I think, comforting. For me it’s not even about the caffeine, it’s the flavor. Tho, it tears my tummy to shreds. Worth it. I suffer the consequences because the rewards are worth it!
@Gypsigirl213 that gif grosses me out when I see it… but the expression on his face is priceless!
@Gypsigirl213 @JnKL
Sauce is the movie “Hall Pass”.
Aeropress
I have an old-school 1950’s glass carafe stove top percolator with freshly ground organic coffee that I use to make coffee for my wife. I personally drink tea only.
Oh pods. Expensive, shit flavor and wasteful. Perfect for those who like to watch the world burn…while drinking dirt water being poor.
Aeropress or drip or cold brew. If I make it myself.
Or some fancy method I’m experimenting with.
Not making it myself? Just however. Including burnt. (So long as it’s unsweetened or barely sweetened.)
Without milk. Or with milk. Or with “alt milk“.
Or itself, by it’s own lonesome.
Still good and necessary.
Even boiled coffee, boiled in a cooking pot (the old cowboy/traildrive way), has virtues.
/image “wagon trail”
@f00l
One of the many moments in my existence that I shall blame on autocorrect and a certain scapegoat.
Sigh.
@JnkL picks the captcha photos
@f00l oh yeah. Math and grammar. I am totally to blame for those!
@f00l
/giphy odd toe co wreck
@f00l @JnKL
Well, math anyway
@f00l @JnKL And you are to blame that they just updated the APA system of documenting footnotes and references after a 10 year hiatus. Now I have to actually go look at it to see what is different.
Shit. Oh wait. It needs to be Fuck. That is a certain scapegoat’s fault too.At last count, I had 30-some-odd different coffee brewing devices and I’ve added a few since then. I considered getting today’s meh deal, but the Essentials Motif Pour over thing I got a few weeks ago is still sitting here unopened and I was able to resist today’s offering… I’m not jonesing quite hard enough yet. (“Hi. I’m Baqui and I’m an addict…”)
While on vacation in Istanbul earlier this month, I looked around a bit for a balance syphon but did not find one. (Without the freedom to overspend granted by being on vacation, plus the amazingly great exchange rate of US dollars to Turkish Lira, I don’t think I’ll be able to buy myself a balance syphon given their normal price tags. I did get some excellent rugs tho, 78+ years old, handmade with natural dyes and tribal patterns… Given what real rugs cost tho, I cannot see myself starting to collect them.
Regardless, at home I almost always use a 1.5 liter French press with freshly ground coffee to make 1-2 days worth of coffee. I have several espresso machines and occasionally use one of them when I want something with less caffeine later in the day. At work, it is usually freshly ground coffee with a crappy old automatic drip brewer.
Regular drip coffee pot for regular coffee, Moka pot for Espresso. I like the Moka pot process for some reason.
Pour the water over the grounds and stir. After 3 minutes, stir again so the grounds sink to the bottom of the cup. Stop drinking when you hit the grounds. #nofilter.