So, how (well) do you like your coffee?

[koØm]

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[NQ6U]

None of them new-fangled electronical gadgets for me. I use something similar to this. Heat the water on the gas stove, pour it over the coffee. Simple and good.

[WØTKX]

Comments from a coffee "snob"...

I think the Keurig units are OK, but expensive. A guy at work has one, and we are allowed to use it if we flip him a few bucks, or buy our own. So I picked up a few of the Vue thingies in flavors I thought I'd like from Tullys and Caribou Coffies. It was OK, but getting beans from a local grocery store is as good or better, IMHO.

I'd rather spend the money on excellent beans. My favorite "everyday store bought" beans are from Costco, but available from Amazon...

New Mexico Pinon Coffee Company Beans


Personally, I have found it's always best to grind beans freshly roasted from a local coffee roaster...Like maybe BLOC in the Price Hill area for you? In Denver, this place is the best I have found. Air roasted Sumatran, Ethiopian Yirgicheffe, and Jamaican beans are favorites of mine. They ship.

Kaladi Brothers Coffee



Then, just use a simple "French" coffee press, like this one from Bodum. They last forever, I know Target sells them for $20.



Another co-worker coffee snob found an aluminum combination press and thermos unit from REI that he loves.

I have been using the French press method for over 25 years now, since before it got "trendy" in the US.

[KG4CGC]

French press does a fine job making pseudo Turkish coffee but give me all the all the processes and knobs of an espresso machine.
It's like tuning up an older rig with toobs.

[PA5COR]

1/2 a gallon coffee a day here, starting in the morning last one for bed.
Cheap coffeemaker, 19 euro works like a charm for 4 years now, if it fails, toss it get a new one.
Coffee from local source good, not cheap.

[K7SGJ]

If you are going to go reusable, ditch the one that Keurig has, and get one of these.

http://www.amazon.com/Ekobrew-Refill...reusable+k+cup

They work much better. I have used a Keurig for years, grind my own beans, and use this style of basket. My wife also uses it for her loose tea. Of course, hot chocolate is a no brainer, too. The baskets are available online or at Walmart, Target, and places like that. Another company has one that is red and comes in a two pack, but I haven't tried it since the ecobrews have lasted several years so far. They tell you to wash them in the dish washer, but don't. The little silicon seal o-ring comes off and is tough to find inside the dishwasher, if you can find it at all.

[KC2UGV]

French press here... And, more or less whatever grounds I have at work. At home, we buy fancy-pants coffee :)

[kb2vxa]

One of my doctors has a one cup brewer in the waiting room with a carousel holding little plastic thingies full of various flavored coffees and plain, that's my choice while waiting for my ride home. There's a basket with small bags of various munchies, I like chocolate chip cookies. No problems with grounds in my coffee, it's quick and the coffee machine has two temperature settings, I like min e hot and it IS hot. If your coffee isn't hot and has grounds in it there's something wrong with the machine or it's poorly designed.

At home I've gone through several 4 cup Mr. Coffee machines, they last several years but I've been using one since they were invented. Here's a tip, if it stops working there are two chemical fuses under the heating element and one invariably opens with age. Just jumper it and Mr. Coffee is good until the other one opens, jumper it and he's good for a few more years until either the thermostat or heating tube craps out.

All coffee comes out of the same factory in the same cans with different labels on them. All brands including the supermarket house brand are all the same, French roast and the most expensive one, Colombian are the same too. Juan Valdez or Exxon Valdez make no difference either, Juan speaks French and is a slick oily SOB. After I finally wised up and got sick of being conned I now buy the "economy" coffee that tastes just as good as the rest, gee, I wonder why.

Starbucks, FRACK, when he learned that Cylons are just walking coffee pots he found a way to get rich making "designer" coffee... SUCKER.

[n6hcm]

French press here... And, more or less whatever grounds I have at work. At home, we buy fancy-pants coffee :)

i had a keurig and gave it away. the coffee was just plain awful. using a "my k-cup" to make the coffee tastier and stronger was a hassle (and seemed kinda pointless since the point of the keurig is convenience). also, not only is it kinda slow but it's also loud.

otoh, my french press is awesome.

[kb2vxa]

All of this proves just how addictive caffeine is.