@cengland0@editorkid It forces water through the K-cup which has a paper filter in it. It's really kind of its own thing, basically a drip maker but with pressure, and not as much as an espresso machine. I'd say it should have been an option. (Personally, I feel they're too expensive per serving, but they are damn convenient and do make a decent cup.)
@rschauer If you watch for sales at Amazon you can get them for around 30 cents a cup, which to me is well worth the convenience and my family not complaining about the coffee smell in the house like they did when I used a regular drip machine.
@Sparky_Susan That's a good example of the convenience outweighing the downsides. I hadn't considered the "only one person in the house drinks coffee" scenario. And you're right, that's a pretty good price.
@rschauer Yep - 4 of us in the house and 3 of us hate the sight, smell, and taste of coffee. I was using a Black and Decker single cup drip machine, but it made the entire house smell of coffee for hours. With the Keurig, the only time we end up with a coffee smell is if I use one of the particularly bold blends. It's a win/win - I can drink my coffee in peace, and my husband and kids aren't choking from the smell they seem unable to tolerate.
Take it from me, being a certified caveman the drip is the easiest way to create a good cup of Joe. It's, pour in a leveled portion of grounded beans.. Water to the max line.. turn on and after making a couple of those mother Mary toast images it's all done. Truly for the suave caveman.
I've converted to green tea. Sometimes I still miss coffee, though, the smell is so inviting. That fragrance when you grind it, or first open the package? Heaven.
Coffee: 1. Get your grounds, coffee pot, and fire ready. 2. Add grounds to the pot. 3. Add water to the pot. 4. Boil the mixture 5. Pour coffee in a cup. 6. Drink/chew your delicious coffee.
When low on water, add more water. Boil again. Drink again. After two or three pots, add more grounds before adding more water and boiling.
For espresso, I use my Rivo. For coffee, I use my french press. For overheated, slightly shitty coffee that older in-laws love, I dig out the old drip machine.
@narfcake Same here, though it falls under percolator. I have one I bought on a whim from IKEA for $12 and its going strong on 3-4x week use for around 4 years. Other days use French press.
I have a Capresso burr grinder and the second-cheapest Capresso espresso machine. I make myself a latté most mornings. Sometimes, when I want a scone, I go to a local bakery and get a latté there.
My 91 year old mother has made coffee this way since I was a kid. Use Chuck Full O Nuts or Martinson in the can. Two heaping scoops per cup in a Faberware percolator, circa 1959. Perk. Remove basket. Boil coffee, 5 minutes. Pour and drink black. Want another cup at noon? Boil remains 5 minutes. Pour and drink black.
I don't have anything against a drip machine, but a french press is superior. It makes excellent coffee, plus it's easy to use and easy to clean. And it's absolutely perfect for me at work, where the swill in the machines can't even be called coffee, and I can't have a drip machine at my desk, but I can get perfect-temp water out of the machine. I always used a drip machine at home until our last one died; we started using a press until we got a new dripper, and just never got a new dripper.
I'll be the first to admit I'm a little bit of a snob, but I don't have a problem with any method of brewing. They all have their pros and cons, and the differences in flavor are nuances that most people either won't notice or won't care about. If you do care about really great tasting coffee, the important things are a good quality bean, freshly ground, and water that's just the right temperature. The more recently the beans were roasted, the better, but that's less important for your everyday morning coffee.
Apparently I fail at being an adult, or perhaps Meh is not the correct demographic for me. A plastic jug of Folger's and a Mr Coffee, and life is good. My only snottiness? I have one of those Tupperware "coffee house" storage sets, so the grounds and filters live in their own color coordinated containers, and travel with me when we go to beach houses or condos with coffee pots.
Drip usually. I do have a French press that I sometimes use. I get whole beans and grind them with a regular grinder. Sometimes I make espresso at home. My machine does both. It's a Capresso.
Vacuum pot. Cleaner cup than french press, although almost as messy. On the road I use an Aeropress; I have a kit containing a pot to heat water (185°), ceramic grinder, the Aeropress and a cup. Oh, and home roasted coffee. :-)
Being alert is overrated. I used to have something like a moka stovetop rocket-fuel maker. Now I'm a drip until I get my Meh machine unpacked that has the fancy optional k-cup side.
I have this little fine mesh strainer I use. Just heat water in my hotpot, put a spoon of coffee in the strainer, then put that in the mug. Pour the boiling water over it, let it sit in there a few minutes depending how strong I want it, and done. I do dump the grounds in my compost pot, I'm working on making an acidic batch for some future blueberries next year. ;)
Call me a heretic but I grind my beans at the store not before each use. The store grinder does a better job at two two bags I get, one coarse and one espresso, and I go through 2lbs about every 2 weeks so turnover is fast enough for convenience.
I like my Toddy for cold brew iced coffee. Does that count? Of course it takes a good 24 hours to brew it and is involved with more than a few steps. Otherwise, a Keurig works for me (I have the office model at home - it's pretty heavy duty) and just just those reusable, refillable cups. but if we have guests over, we use the coffee maker for sale this day (but we got it at the other site a while ago )
I use an ibrik and roast my beens by hand over hickory chips to a light mocha color. I of course use only the finest Karmadom from Turkey and hand grind just before boiling 2 tablespoons of coffee with two tablespoons of sugar in 200 Ml of water for exactly 3.2 minutes. There is no other way to brew coffee.
@JonT Has anyone on the forums ever made note of your weird, seemingly endless, work hours? Do you just walk around with Google Glass on all day, every day, monitoring the forums? Is your exhaustion why you wrote “Sawson” when you meant “Swanson”? (Which I'm guessing you have corrected before I click “Say it.”)
The first time we went camping, I had a plain, old coffeepot. Husband wanted to know when it would stop perking. I patiently explained, when you take it off the fire.
Why isn't the poll multiple choice? I'm a coffee roaster, and use clever, aeropress, technivorm, this cheap ass Meh, and my favorite, espresso. As for you K-Cup peeps...you're doing it wrong. Kcups are awful, their machines can't brew properly. Buy a real drip machine, or if you must use pods, Nespresso.
@editorkid take it how you like. Fact: pregrinding coffee goes stale in days, and no fancy packaging tricks can change that. Kcups are all preground, so even if you packaged the best coffee money can buy, it would still be preground in a kcup, ie stale. The system itself is flawed, and that's without even going into the fact that all the coffees sold would be inferior even if you tried them fresh from the roaster, and the fact that the brewers themselves suck. So yeah, zzz all you like, your crappy keurig ain't gonna save you. :D
@poison Pfffft. I buy my beans warm from Metropolis on Chicago's North Side and grind to spec just before brewing. Gripe about the percolators first. They treat beans way worse than Keurigs. And you should spend some time finding a K cup you'll like. They're out there!
Clever coffee dripper is my cboice. It's like french press without the mess, and it's under $20.
I'm waiting for the Meh! deal that's only twelve bucks.
Chemex FTW!
K-cups. Maybe no one at Meh's heard of them?
@editorkid yeah, how is that not a choice?
@editorkid good point.. Does the Keurig use the pour-over method or is it higher pressure so it's a press method?
@cengland0 Believe it's a little of both, but that's to the extent I can translate marketing materials.
@editorkid Same here. Refillable K-Cup with Dunkin ground coffee. That's so unusual?
@droopus that's my choice at home. At work it is a refillable k cup with generic pumpkin spice right now.
@cengland0 @editorkid It forces water through the K-cup which has a paper filter in it. It's really kind of its own thing, basically a drip maker but with pressure, and not as much as an espresso machine. I'd say it should have been an option. (Personally, I feel they're too expensive per serving, but they are damn convenient and do make a decent cup.)
@rschauer If you watch for sales at Amazon you can get them for around 30 cents a cup, which to me is well worth the convenience and my family not complaining about the coffee smell in the house like they did when I used a regular drip machine.
@Sparky_Susan Totally agree. We love our Keurig.
@Sparky_Susan That's a good example of the convenience outweighing the downsides. I hadn't considered the "only one person in the house drinks coffee" scenario. And you're right, that's a pretty good price.
@rschauer Yep - 4 of us in the house and 3 of us hate the sight, smell, and taste of coffee. I was using a Black and Decker single cup drip machine, but it made the entire house smell of coffee for hours. With the Keurig, the only time we end up with a coffee smell is if I use one of the particularly bold blends. It's a win/win - I can drink my coffee in peace, and my husband and kids aren't choking from the smell they seem unable to tolerate.
People like you can click "instant".
It's time for the percolator.
@nadroj I LOVE this song. I play this album for my kids all the time!
I love percolators, but I mostly use an orange French press that I got from target on sale for like 12 bucks.
Take it from me, being a certified caveman the drip is the easiest way to create a good cup of Joe. It's, pour in a leveled portion of grounded beans.. Water to the max line.. turn on and after making a couple of those mother Mary toast images it's all done. Truly for the suave caveman.
never change, @unkabob!
I've converted to green tea. Sometimes I still miss coffee, though, the smell is so inviting. That fragrance when you grind it, or first open the package? Heaven.
Coffee:
1. Get your grounds, coffee pot, and fire ready.
2. Add grounds to the pot.
3. Add water to the pot.
4. Boil the mixture
5. Pour coffee in a cup.
6. Drink/chew your delicious coffee.
When low on water, add more water. Boil again. Drink again. After two or three pots, add more grounds before adding more water and boiling.
I think a percolator is best but the Keurig is just sooooo easy.
Bonavita Drip Maker at home. Aeropress when camping.
For espresso, I use my Rivo. For coffee, I use my french press. For overheated, slightly shitty coffee that older in-laws love, I dig out the old drip machine.
Moka pot.
@narfcake Same here, though it falls under percolator. I have one I bought on a whim from IKEA for $12 and its going strong on 3-4x week use for around 4 years. Other days use French press.
@c0ldfuse Not quite the same; water is pressured through the coffee grounds in a moka pot, whereas it's reliant on gravity in a percolator.
@narfcake oh damn I didn't know that I assumed they were the same thing. Thanks e-bro.
@narfcake what os this thing of which you speak? (Heads to Google...)
@neuromancer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot
Moka Moka Moka. And a Nespresso machine when I'm lazy.
I have a Capresso burr grinder and the second-cheapest Capresso espresso machine. I make myself a latté most mornings. Sometimes, when I want a scone, I go to a local bakery and get a latté there.
My 91 year old mother has made coffee this way since I was a kid. Use Chuck Full O Nuts or Martinson in the can. Two heaping scoops per cup in a Faberware percolator, circa 1959. Perk. Remove basket. Boil coffee, 5 minutes. Pour and drink black. Want another cup at noon? Boil remains 5 minutes. Pour and drink black.
Milk or other whitening agent has no effect.
@droopus I bet that stuff has a bunch more uses around the house. Like resealing the asphalt driveway.
@Pamtha It makes a good wood stain too!
@droopus Better coffee millionaires' money can't buy.
I don't have anything against a drip machine, but a french press is superior. It makes excellent coffee, plus it's easy to use and easy to clean. And it's absolutely perfect for me at work, where the swill in the machines can't even be called coffee, and I can't have a drip machine at my desk, but I can get perfect-temp water out of the machine. I always used a drip machine at home until our last one died; we started using a press until we got a new dripper, and just never got a new dripper.
I'll be the first to admit I'm a little bit of a snob, but I don't have a problem with any method of brewing. They all have their pros and cons, and the differences in flavor are nuances that most people either won't notice or won't care about. If you do care about really great tasting coffee, the important things are a good quality bean, freshly ground, and water that's just the right temperature. The more recently the beans were roasted, the better, but that's less important for your everyday morning coffee.
Apparently I fail at being an adult, or perhaps Meh is not the correct demographic for me. A plastic jug of Folger's and a Mr Coffee, and life is good. My only snottiness? I have one of those Tupperware "coffee house" storage sets, so the grounds and filters live in their own color coordinated containers, and travel with me when we go to beach houses or condos with coffee pots.
Drip usually. I do have a French press that I sometimes use. I get whole beans and grind them with a regular grinder. Sometimes I make espresso at home. My machine does both. It's a Capresso.
Turkish Cezick. Ok, i said that to be cool. I use the Cezick once a year. Mostly K cups, and Starbucks.
Still use a senseo, make our own pods.
I'm a big fan of Aeropress, but it's hard to convince other people to try.
Soda, soda, soda
@chr I could go for a Monster Absolutely Zero right about now...
Boiling water into soda stream.
Then into Aeropress.
Fussy fizzy water and fussy coffee combined in ultimate fussy, fizzy beverage mess.
:)
Velocity Brew (which is closer relation to drip)
(maybe meh can get an acquisition on some bunn coffee makers.)
Vacuum pot. Cleaner cup than french press, although almost as messy. On the road I use an Aeropress; I have a kit containing a pot to heat water (185°), ceramic grinder, the Aeropress and a cup. Oh, and home roasted coffee. :-)
Being alert is overrated. I used to have something like a moka stovetop rocket-fuel maker. Now I'm a drip until I get my Meh machine unpacked that has the fancy optional k-cup side.
I have this little fine mesh strainer I use. Just heat water in my hotpot, put a spoon of coffee in the strainer, then put that in the mug. Pour the boiling water over it, let it sit in there a few minutes depending how strong I want it, and done. I do dump the grounds in my compost pot, I'm working on making an acidic batch for some future blueberries next year. ;)
It's not quite espresso in the 9 bars machine sense, but moka pot. Best cheap lattes you could make.
I just pull up to the speaker box @ tim Horton's, and say I want an xl double-double. Then hand over $1.99.
Coffee done.
Call me a heretic but I grind my beans at the store not before each use. The store grinder does a better job at two two bags I get, one coarse and one espresso, and I go through 2lbs about every 2 weeks so turnover is fast enough for convenience.
I put my contigo mug in the sconce, press the tall button, press the right button, then press the start button. The machine does the rest.
Like this:
http://www.pushnotpull.com/images/thumbnail/user-brew-flowing-1-2-3-1
Pasquini Livia 90, AeroPress, pour-over, and sometimes drip. Grind my own beans for Mr. Pasquini, but let Peet's touch them for the other devices.
I mix it up, in this order: Chemex pourover, Aeropress, Keurig k-cups, french press, Nespresso machine. Fresh beans ground just before brewing.
I like my Toddy for cold brew iced coffee. Does that count? Of course it takes a good 24 hours to brew it and is involved with more than a few steps. Otherwise, a Keurig works for me (I have the office model at home - it's pretty heavy duty) and just just those reusable, refillable cups. but if we have guests over, we use the coffee maker for sale this day (but we got it at the other site a while ago )
The Keurig for every day. Percolator when there's some company. The urn for a larger group.
Bialetti, which by default assumed was a percolator It's the Graffeo dark roast that has gotten me the raves for decades.
I use an ibrik and roast my beens by hand over hickory chips to a light mocha color. I of course use only the finest Karmadom from Turkey and hand grind just before boiling 2 tablespoons of coffee with two tablespoons of sugar in 200 Ml of water for exactly 3.2 minutes. There is no other way to brew coffee.
@fnsonin okay Ron Swanson.
@JonT Has anyone on the forums ever made note of your weird, seemingly endless, work hours? Do you just walk around with Google Glass on all day, every day, monitoring the forums? Is your exhaustion why you wrote “Sawson” when you meant “Swanson”? (Which I'm guessing you have corrected before I click “Say it.”)
@SSteve a few people have mentioned it. What can I say, someone has to watch over all of the jokers around here. Plus I like it here, it's fun.
Thanks for the catch on Sawson, I am pretty tired!
@JonT I hope you are asleep now.
Old fashioned drip machine. Never had a reason to do any other kind of coffee maker, drips produce good coffee to me.
The first time we went camping, I had a plain, old coffeepot. Husband wanted to know when it would stop perking. I patiently explained, when you take it off the fire.
Why isn't the poll multiple choice? I'm a coffee roaster, and use clever, aeropress, technivorm, this cheap ass Meh, and my favorite, espresso. As for you K-Cup peeps...you're doing it wrong. Kcups are awful, their machines can't brew properly. Buy a real drip machine, or if you must use pods, Nespresso.
@poison "I haven't had a good K cup, so there can't possibly be any." zzzzzzz
@editorkid take it how you like. Fact: pregrinding coffee goes stale in days, and no fancy packaging tricks can change that. Kcups are all preground, so even if you packaged the best coffee money can buy, it would still be preground in a kcup, ie stale. The system itself is flawed, and that's without even going into the fact that all the coffees sold would be inferior even if you tried them fresh from the roaster, and the fact that the brewers themselves suck. So yeah, zzz all you like, your crappy keurig ain't gonna save you. :D
@poison Pfffft. I buy my beans warm from Metropolis on Chicago's North Side and grind to spec just before brewing. Gripe about the percolators first. They treat beans way worse than Keurigs. And you should spend some time finding a K cup you'll like. They're out there!
Fresh ground coffee into a Bunn Phase Brew. Think of a 8 cup pour over machine.
OK, but how do you brew klava?