Thread: How do you Make your coffee?

the only way to make coffee, PERKED!!

the only way to make coffee is to PERK it!!

Originally Posted by JimR

My Manservant Gustav FINALLY figured out how to make a decent cup, after utterly exhausting my thrashing arm...the nerve!

But who knows how he does it? Who has time to deal with such...common...things as making coffee?

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

None of the above....

Melita (#4, paper filter) ... I get properly roasted coffee ground finer than the shop recommends and make a single large cup in a #4 cone filter. By getting the grind fine the filter slows down just enough that the coffee and water have time to do their thing. The clean up is easy and the coffee is way up there.

I do have the luxury of a local roaster.... and based on what was roasted in front of me I try this and that roast and bean.

If I want a second cup I add about half the ground coffee I used the first time to the same filter and add some more boiling water.

Part of the secret is the electric water kettle that quickly boils water then shuts itself off -- no burnt coffee pot, no too loud bo-jangle whistling tea kettle.

Using the Ground beans more than once seems to me to make Incredibly bitter coffe but who am I to judge

Originally Posted by billyjeff2

The poll left out the vacuum pot method.
I use a Hario vac pot. Makes a wonderful cup of coffee.
http://coffeegeek.com/images/278/242x250/harioback.jpg

Difference in words.. a don Pedro is a vacuum pot and that's what I usually call all of them (quite wrong I know)

Originally Posted by jcw122

I don't understand half of those options in the poll...but I use a French Press.

Same here. Press can/Presso can = French press.

Originally Posted by srkilpatrick

I use this set up:

https://shop.melitta.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=64+0616&Cat=

The bare filter option I honestly missed.

Modified Rancilio Silvia, DeMoka grinder, Espresso beans produced by a friend of mine. Thankfully, we have a professional espresso machine at work, too.

Coffee at home is made expresso style on an italian expresso coffee pot. I drink it without any cream, two teaspool full of brown turbinated sugar. Like I am doing now. On the go....I buy it at Starbucks, no sugar with a dash of half and half.

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Modified Rancilio Silvia, DeMoka grinder, Espresso beans produced by a friend of mine. Thankfully, we have a professional espresso machine at work, too.

That I really want as a Christmas present

Originally Posted by Hogrider

Coffee at home is made expresso style on an italian expresso coffee pot. I drink it without any cream, two teaspool full of brown turbinated sugar. Like I am doing now. On the go....I buy it at Starbucks, no sugar with a dash of half and half.

I think what you are describing as a mocca brewer. I use that too atm since I cant afford a nice espresso machine on a students earnings.

Btw favorite coffe: Molinari espresso oro roasted whole beans.

Originally Posted by MrLastway

That I really want as a Christmas present

Well, get it. Probably the best home machine for that sort of money. The new line has the professional portafilter and some other goodies. Here is a great review of it. The Minimoka is a nice grinder, and you can get some very decent deals for it in the US.

i just got a french press this past weekend and i love it, other than that its expresso machine (just a cheap walmart type) but i like it. after seeing the picture i really wanna try that vacuum coffee maker thingy just cause it looks cool, anyone know where to get one? im gonna check amazon.com now

-dan-

Originally Posted by sinnfein

i just got a french press this past weekend and i love it, other than that its expresso machine (just a cheap walmart type) but i like it. after seeing the picture i really wanna try that vacuum coffee maker thingy just cause it looks cool, anyone know where to get one? im gonna check amazon.com now

-dan-

Hario used to have a US website where you could order directly from them, but I don't think it's operating. If you can't find one on Amazon, you can order Hario vacuum pots from these folks: Hario Syphon Siphon / Vacuum Pots, Nouveau 3, Tech 3/5, Deco, Coffee Drip Pot, Coffee Mill | Avenue 18 - Fine Tea Merchant|Richmond, Vancouver,BC Canada. If you decide to buy from them, stock up on extra boxes of the paper filters at the same time. Their shipping charges to the states are a bit rich, so get all you need in one order...

I take my coffees like this:

espresso with lemon rind only

Coffee Latte with 1/2 & 1/2

Tea's

plain or with honey

My machines

Rancillo Rocky Grinder set to very fine

Rancillo Silva in stainless

2 cup serving French Press

Moka Pot (Bialetti)

Cusinart Drip


What can I say I like coffee.

I also like tea, I like Monkey Picked white tea, and the crazy green bud tea I get from Thailand.

I like beer too..hehe

Cheers
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