Posted on 02/02/2025 11:34:51 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
It doesn’t take much digging through the vast array of coffee-making apparatuses, either at your local kitchen store or online, to get overwhelmed. There are drip machines, pod-machines, French presses — even this odd-looking contraption.
When selecting the best brewer for you, you’ll want to consider a variety of factors: How fast is it? How much cleanup is required? How much coffee does your household consume? And of course, there’s taste.
1) Aeropress
2) Drip Machine
3) Pourover
4) French Press
5) Moka Pot
6) Pod Machine
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The filling stations in this area have all gone automatic, so the kids will never know how great the bottom quarter of a pot was after it had been simmering all day...
Percolator - vintage Farberware Superfast - gotta be made in the Bronx, not china.
Me, I use a BUNN Coffee maker. Makes a pot of coffee in about three minutes. I used McDonalds ground McCafe Breakfast Blend and drink it black. Excellent smooth tasting cup of coffee.
indeed the older and more messed up the better
I just Nuke a cup of water 2:22.
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All Electric at the Compound.
Tchibo machine with Tchibo beans. It’s a lot of work but worth it.
https://tchibo.us/pages/machines?srsltid=AfmBOoqLAVMnX_cld4kMtUGBHEIDyevBlROAhrb9jMwEoZeMy9n4KGPe
We like our percolator. THATS a hot cup of coffee!!
I agree.
We use a quart sized Revere Ware percolator we found by the side of the road. It was intact and just needed a little elbow grease to clean it up. Great coffee.
old fashion perculator
old fashion perculator
I grind up my beans with my Cuisinart little grinder. Then I put them in my Oxo coffee brewer and add 24 oz. of spring water. I let it brew for 12 hours and then set the Oxo brewer onto its glass carafe, where the concentrated brew runs into. I then pour 2 oz. of the concentrate into a tumbler, add the appropriate amount of stevia, spring water, and no-sugar syrup, up to an inch from the top. Finally, I add a bit of milk. Heaven!
French press. But it took me a while to get the grind and the portions right.
K cups do the job….but they are not great.
My mother in law could make a great pot of perc’d coffee.
Does anybody use a percolator any more? I’m thinking of going to a thrift store and buying an old percolator of excellent quality. Right now we have a drop coffee maker; it’s convenient, makes decent coffee, but everything but the carafe is plastic, and I would like to get away from using plastics.
Melitta single cup either #2 or #4 paper filter.
Used to be Folgers, now. its Community Coffee from New Orleans, either Cafe’, House, Hotel,or Americano.
1 level scoop per cup, 2 cup measuring Pyrex, for 4 minutes in a 1000 watt microwave oven, or, with the teapot, pour when the first wisps of steam co.
me out of the spout. Creamer till light, or, milk until the milk rises to the surface, with 1 packet of yellow sweetener.
I have a Mr. Coffee. I've tried just putting in a few cups at a time, but it takes too long for me.
The issues that most impact the cup in order are:
1. Bean variety and mix.
2. Roasted freshly
3. Freshly ground in uniform grind (burr grinder)
4. Clean good quality water at 205 degrees for pour over.
5. Coffee maker (Chemex 10 cup 50 oz is my favorite)
Course grind for F Press or perc and at least 1.5 tablespoon per cup with those varieties. Fine grind for electric drip or bunn.
I order air roasted from The Roateriee in KC and get their American Restaurant blend as one of the five natural acids is reduced by that roasting.
One-cup-at-a-time dripolater.
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