F or the press type method it depends on the grind. If you can’t get that right, don’t bother. I suspect that is why the controversy of the press method.
Other tips: Drip coffee is very wasteful because the water isn’t generally near hot enough even when the coffee maker is new. Once they get calcified up (hard water) the problem is even worse. Its not the drip concept that is bad but the implementation. Even cowboy coffee rightly has its’ adherents. The trick here is to bring the pot to a boil for an instant but thereafter relegated only to a very slow simmer, well away from any flames or excessive heat. About six to eight hours isnt too long at all. In this case the long settling times make for a very smooth cup, but we live much more hectic lives these days, I guess.
there isnt anything snobbish about wanting good coffee, it has only been in recent years that depression-era/wartime expedients like canned or instant varieties went the way of powdered eggs and cornflake bars.