We went to a super-automatic at least 10 years ago. Spoiled now, I don't like drinking coffee out anymore, it just doesn't taste the same as fresh ground.

As to the OP's original question, the super-automatics grind, press, then eject the 'puck' of ground beans into a removable bin.

Out of curiosity, what's a good "budget" super-automatic?

We have a De'Longhi ESAM3300 at home, has made at least 6 cups a day for the past 5 years. Sells for about $550?

We also bought Saeco Xsmall makers for the kids and a vacation home. I think were about $300 at Costco, but don't seem to be available anymore. Coffee tastes just as good, but the water needs to be refilled after 2 cups.

Maintenance for both has only been descaling and lubricating the brew unit.

Thanks

Why not a pour over with a paper filter? Both could be composted...

...or the super automatic. We have a delonghi. Love it. Only waste is the coffee puck.

french press, lightly rinse empty into garbage. Then wash clingons out over one of these

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There is something about starbucks Via packs than my wife and I both love.

I am no coffee snob, but I actually prefer them to French press and actual in store starbucks. My sisters feel the same way. Some sort of weird magic in those packs. Pretty expensive though, almost 1$ each at your friendly neighborhood HEB>

My go-to instant coffee is this stuff:

https://www.medagliadoro.com/coffee/instant/espresso

Closest that I have found to real coffee. I like it better than Starbucks Via.

My daily using fresh ground every day.

Screw everything else.. Tastes horrible..

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My cheap coffee press still hasn't let me down. It was close the other day, though. The nut holding the pieces together fell down the kitchen sink when I cleaned the parts. Managed to save it though, it was in the trap. Original poster's idea is not bad though, I might just buy one of these, if they became widely available.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4ac8f9cca6.jpg

I had a septic tank at my last house and flushed the grounds down the sink with no bad effects for 22 years. I think people can be too sensitive to living with a septic system.

Quit using a French press a while back. Seems like they weren't the healthiest way to make coffee, if that's a thing.

For one cup at a time, get a Keurig or something similar.

Or buy a $30 Mr. Coffee and futz around making a cup at a time.

The pressure of a french press will work against what you are trying to do. Might try grinding your own and leaving granule size larger.
Or go to a perk. It's the same concept as a french press but gravity (so less pressure) so granules dont mix as much.
You have to heat the water anyway for a french press, why not have it bubble through as you heat it?

There's a youtube chef who cooks for dude ranch people, and he had an episode on making "cowboy coffee". I have not tried it.

Out of curiosity, what's a good "budget" super-automatic that will also automatically froth milk for a latte?

- asking for a fiend

Both of ours do (see post 23)

I was trying to figure out the DeLonghi website and it seemed like the higher end machines (down to $1,000) would do an automatic latte, but the more reasonably priced ones required you to hodl the milk cup up there and move it around yourself.

yes, I sound lazy - and before my morning coffee I am veeeery lazy....

My mom had a septic tank at her farm. It was one of those old type ones, not a fancy schmancy type one.

She used to drink huge amounts of French press coffee and that plus all sorts of things went into the septic tank. No problems.

We had a beach house with a septic tank. The only time my lazy aunty Marion Lawson ever did anything she poured half a bottle of bleach down the toilet. We had to get the septic tank pumped out for the next five years.

Please excuse my drunken rant, but the point I'm trying to make is coffee is fine in the septic tank.

I use a french press every day, but i would say +1 on the pourover. About as simple as you can get, and with paper filters there is little cleanup involved.
I use the french press because there is a little less active time involved, but the pour over definitely makes a better cup of coffee, especially once you get the hang of blooming the coffee and timing your pour.
If the girlfriend let me keep an electric kettle on the counter, i would probably switch back to pourovers.

I went with a couple of commercial grade Jura super automatics for the offices and then an E6 for home. I love it. Coffee has never tasted so good.

A good budget for a Super-Auto is about $1K. There are budget machines for $350