How do you make your coffee? Podfags and mr coffee preground morons fuck off

>my meth lab

Aeropress. I thought it was just a meme when I first got one, but it's more efficient and tastes better than pourover, and faster than moka pot or drip machine.

I fell for the aeropress meme as well, and honestly it works pretty well.

Local fresh roasted coffee beans, Baratza Encore grinder, Chemex 6-cup carafe, pre-folded unbleached filters, electric temperature controlled swan neck kettle.

15 seconds to pre infuse double coffee weight in 202F water, 30 seconds to bloom, remainder of water (16:1 ratio) added starting at 45s mark at 202F and completed by 3min mark, brewing completed by 5min mark.

I use a keurig and drink it black or with a little chocolate ice cream in it.

I'm a lazy college student, I just get some good quality preground beans and use a stovetop espresso if I feel like it, but it doesn't produce a lot of coffee so most of the time I honestly just go to tim hortons and get a black iced coffee

French press has a great balance of quality with ease and affordability.

>storing ground coffee for longer than 10 minutes
It's almost like you are willing to sacrifice a modicum of flavour for an immense increase in convenience.

French press master race reporting

chicago style

Arrarex Caravel

I make coldbrew with a french press. You can get away with using cheap coffee because you aren't burning the beans. And hot coffee puts me to sleep because im a pussy.

I like this meme

I was so confused by this the first time I spent the night at a French person's house.

Bodum French press
its the easiest way to make good coffee

is it me or does barely anyone around here use an espresso machine?

why not?

like actual reasoning would be welcome because I'm looking to get a machine and I'm wondering if I should get a separate grinder or a fully-automatic one

has any user tried both variants to be able to judge nicely and share their thoughts?

Who wants to clean one, when you can just rinse a moka pot or French press under the tap?

I put in two cups of creamer and slam pre-ground coffee that I make gallons of at a hotel. Who cares how their drugs taste, I only drink coffee because of the effects that it has on me.

Been loving aeropress for my morning cup, but I've been using the chemex this weekend. A well done chemex over these Chanchamayo Peruvian beans tastes amazing.

corporate shill pls go

The ceiling for a traditional espresso maker is higher, but many of the first cups will suck until you get to know your machine. And cleaning is a bitch.
Automatic espresso machines consistently make good coffee, and have extremely easy cleaning and maintenance, but the ceiling for your coffee is not as high.

I bet you like Breaking Bad don't you, you complete reddit shit

Pour over

How do you like your Encore? I'm looking at grinders in that price range. Moving up from a manual grinder.

I exclusively use a v60. If I lived with others I would buy a Technivorm Moccamaster like

French press if I'm making it. Though if my roommate is up and moving I'll get him to make me an espresso.

Cost. How many $3 latte's can you just buy from a cafe before you end up spending more than the espresso machine?

I want to buy one of those vacuum coffee makers because I've been on a retro kick. Are they a pain in the ass to use?

1.put coffee grounds into some water
2.filter out the grounds
3.profit

this is literally all you need to do to make coffee

Been drinking sous vide coffee since Christmas when my gf gave the rig as a gift. Won't drink coffee any other way now.

This is a joke right?

...

you're right I forgot the first and most important step of all

1.buy some coffee

you forgot another step
1.buy a water

look I think we're both forgetting the most most important step

1.exist

and before anything
1. get some money

> really thinks companies pay people to post on ck

Hahaha, I'm drinking this right now.

Do yo know the girl in that pic is a porn star?

Unfortunately, Anna Kendrick does not do porn

I use a hario v60, filtron cold brewer, or a nespresso if I'm feeling lazy.

Do different cold brews taste the same to you guys? Every coffee shop I go to it tastes the same. Even nicer shops that source and roast their own beans. Whereas pour overs will taste wildly different.

Ha! I actually got that backwards, I have a Virtuoso now and used to have an Encore.

The Encore is perfectly fine for home use, but the Virtuoso is a significant step up, with FAR fewer fines and a more consistent grind.

I've found bean quality to matter more to cold brew than drip. maybe not at much as pour over, I don't buy that out because it's what I drink at home mostly.

for you

Bought the aeropress for camping and have been using it more and more. I really don't even use my normal drip coffee make anymore at all.

That's actually why I originally got one, then ended up using it pretty much every day since.

They're expensive as fuck.

Craigslist my man. I got a retail $400 dollar espresso machine for $50 dollars, including 2 stainless steel cups and measuring shots.

Well lucky you.

I enjoy french press enough, anyways. If I want espresso I go to the local coffee shop down the street and meet up with friends.

Just bought an aeropress, already have a pretty good grinder, looking forward to using it I guess. At the moment I have a drip machine that I grind beans for, but it's just pikes place whole beans, what are some overly pretentious ones your recommend?

I use a dingus machine, but I'm thinking of buying either an espresso machine or a French press.
>Advice considered.

Quickly and efficiently to get caffeine in my body so I can get on with life.

Which profound it is.

Larry's Coffee is pretty dank, but your best bet is to just take a trip to a high-end grocery store and find some overpriced selection.

What do you kikes think of this; is it a good deal?

amazon.com/Tiny-Footprint-Coffee-Organic-3-Pound/dp/B003D3312U/ref=sr_1_6_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1464033568&sr=1-6&keywords=coffee

Tried it once, was way too bitter. I probably didn't use enough coffee.

Buy beans, roast them, grind them, french press. Or I use a kcup if I am feeling lazy.

please respond

>your best bet is to just take a trip to a high-end grocery store
what the hell?
find a local roaster, or at least a coffee shop that serves and sells something ok (lots of places import stumptown, which is a nice starting point)

Can anyone advise regarding a grinder for espresso? Can the encore cut it if it's adjusted internally to the fine setting, or do I need to step it up ?

Or actually let me ask this:
- do you make espresso, and if so
- what grinder do you use?

And can anyone recommend a good French press/criteria for selecting a good French press?

>Buy ½ pound to one pound of beans once a week or every other week.
>Grind 30 ounces of beans every morning
>brew in French press for 4 minutes
>press, pour into cup and vacuum flask
>enjoy cup at home, finish flask at work

One spoon of international roast
One spoon milk powder
Add hot water

I boil 500ml of water and stop the kettle when the water vapor starts to sting my hand a bit, but it's well below boiling point.
Then I add 18g of preground coffee into my french press, add the water, swish it around a bit and let it brew for 3 minutes.

Best coffee ever.
I tried to enjoy whole bean for a while, but it tasted like water and mold even though all the proportions were identical.

hey I make coldbrew as my main way of drinking coffee too.

I normally fill a 1L container with four tablespoons of very course strong grounds. Left overnight in the fridge the grounds pack down enough that I can pour it out into another container without having to filter and I use that roughly 750ml of concentrated coffee as my coffee for the day, diluting it 1:1 with iced water when I drink it.

Takes two minutes at night before I go to bed, and another minute when I wake up to get coffee all day for zero effort.

Aeropress and a Porlex Mini, Australian though so I can get good espresso at most places when im out

I just make chi' style cold brew coffee m8,
3/4 cup of coarse grounds to 1L of water, double or half these if you want I'm not the cops

Cover and refrigerate for 24h or leave at room temp for 12

Filter that shit with cheesecloth or paper filters through a strainer till there's no grounds, pour it into your serving jug and pour over ice (maccas will give you a bag of ice for fucking spare change)

If you're not stupid you'll also make simple syrup by boiling sugar water, then adding vanilla extract, damn son you just made vanilla syrup to flavor it with because normal sugar doesn't mix well in cold coffee

>accustomed to buying pre-ground coffee
>finally buy hand mill
>buy whole beans and grind them at home
>coffee tastes exactly the fucking same
I can't believe I fell for such silly meme

If an espresso machine is affordable, it's shit-tier. It's undeniably one of the best forms of coffee but the only reason I use it is because of having high quality ones at work, most people can't afford anything that's good. Anything you're looking at buying will likely give you average shit.

Also, there's a fair bit of skill behind it. Takes you a few months to be legitimately good, most people haven't got the time for that, unless they're getting paid.

Whole bean dark Italian roast, ground in a manual grinder and then perc'd in a Moka pot. Only until I can get a real espresso machine.

you must have poor taste

freshly ground beans taste a lot less bitter and a lot more sweet to be than preground

If you want to make delicious coffee from scratch you must first invent the universe.

You're a flyover, you can't taste the difference.

>mr coffee preground morons fuck off
but I make my cafe bustello or community coffee in a old 15$ mr coffee maker

looks like that user just got

roasted

Ok so, on a scale of 1-10 what's the difference between

A. Whole beans ground in an airtight container, exposed to no sunlight, but brewed a day after grinding.
Vs
B. Whole beans ground 15 seconds before brewing.

I am considering a hand grinder, since with the aeropress I received would eliminate all need for electricity and allow me to brew some fine coffee anywhere, but is it worth it. My electric grinder can also do an espresso grind.

Ah great, more biased blabbering bullshit generalizations, I was missing that for a bit

Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing, user

I grind coffee beans and use a filter machine. I'm not an autist.

Mate, I use an espresso machine every day. They're not worth it unless you are rich beyond your dreams. For the price range, aeropress is objectively better in every single quantifiable measure.

If you grind it just before brewing I got the impression that the ground coffee had a stronger fragrance/smell, but didn't really feel any difference in the actual coffee afterwards

>inb4 hoards of raging autists raging about the immense differences

Around 7 ish. I definitely notice some changes in crema when utilising older grounds, even if they've been stored correctly, but it's more a case of not getting the full flavour as opposed to the flavour being "bad". It still tastes fine, but maybe not excellent.

Mate this is the single most useless argument you could've made. Just stop. People will see the thread being bumped, expecting something of use or relevant to be posted

How is it a useless argument? The original question was asking why no one used an espresso machine, that is the legitimate answer.

this and pic related,
depends on coffee I'd like to drink.

had several machines but I prefer old fashion.

There were 3 questions. To make it more useful you could say what machine you're using now. What machine(s) have you used in the past? How do they compare? What's this huge difference in quality that you need to pay whatever you mean by huge amounts of money for a fancy machine?

What so you even mean by "affordable"? Do you realize how subjective that is? Affordable for me might mean much less than for you, and much more than for whoever else

Etc.

Basically the take-away from your 3-4 posts is that some guy out there thinks you need to spend big for an espresso machine, while there's a high chance that he hasn't really tried more than one other $20 machine at an inexperienced friend's place once, and found that the coffee from the fancy machine at work is better. Ergo useless

Alright nice projection bruh. I work as a barista tutor at a cooking school. I could answer the questions but it's evident that you're not going to take any of my answers seriously.

Indeed it's better if we stop, as previously suggested

I only use 100% Arabica

Moka pot

Have an aeropress, but haven't really been able to make a good cup yet. Might buy a Moka or v60, they seem more straightfoward to use than the aeropress.

With my espresso machine.

>put instant coffee granules in mug
>add boiling water from my electric kettle
>stir in whole milk or coffee mate
>tea spoon of sugar
>enjoy