How do you make your coffee at home?

[rusnak]

cowboys also chew tobacco, don't wipe with toilet paper, and eat a lot of chili, not that there is anything wrong with that.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

I get my beans at Trader Joes, right now the Kauai peaberry unbelievable, Costa Rican is always good, Yemen, Ethiopian, try some different types and see what fits your taste.

I use a french press, pour boiling water over ground beans in press, let sit for one minute, press, pour, and drink.

this is the best way to make coffee.

Don't leave it on the burner all day, get a good thermos/insulated carafe to sit on the counter, use filtered water, grind the beans right before using, put hot water in thermos to warm it up, dump out, pour in your coffee and it will be tasty and not burned up.

You can also pour your coffee from the press into a big insulated cup. I did, until my ******* room mate broke it and I got a Krups expresso machine for Christmas. Usually use the fresh ground beans in a Mr Coffee, strong enough the wife has to use lotsa cream, or water it down.

[David McLaughlin]

Huh, I missed the Starbucks thread... which one is that?

Having managed one of the Starbucks shops in Harvard Square Cambridge, I got addicted to "a more robust flavor". My family makes colored water.

Right now we have a Mr. Coffee maker with a stainless Thermos. It works well and I think the flat bottom filters help a bit with the flavor... at least when I make it to the right ratio of coffee to water. We have the gold filter bur regularly just use a natural (brown, not white) paper filter. I always use filtered water; yes it makes a difference in this area.

Some of the best coffee though is what we make while camping. We use a percolator over the Coleman stove. Maybe it's just because it's cold and raw in the mountain forests, but that seems to hit the spot the most. The hard part is heating it right so you get liquid only and not chewy coffee.

[CORNICE6]

French Press, percolator or when I'm being lazy...just press the button:

[trekkor]

Originally Posted by lyon

Yes to that when I make it. When the wife does, she uses the french press.


KT

[pwd72s]

Cuisinart dripper for the morning read the paper, hang out here brew.

Later in the day, a cheapy Krups for the espresso.

During power outages & brown-outs....old fashioned ceramic coated percolater atop a one burner camp stove.

Beans? Bought in various places...Costco mostly...have one of those blade grinders.

Crude by gourmet standards, but it all works.

[vash]

my kitchen is small. i dont have alot of counter space to keep a full time coffee maker. that plus i think a coffee press, makes the best brew. i have a camp percolator that makes a really good cup also. i would buy a countertop version, but again...counter space. i like how the french press is a multitasker. i have rehydrated mushrooms with it.

all my coffee at home is from peets. mostly major dickenson blend. my friend manages a store. my supply is endless.

[teenerted1]

you guys using a percolator, it is well known to be the worst way to brew coffee. fine if you are camping and have no other options.

all you are doing is sending the coffee thru the same grounds over and over again. why not just dump it in a pot and boil it on the fire like the cowboys do.

[varmint]

the ex was a coffee bigot. she or one of her sisters would bring back a suitcase full of ethiopean every time they flew home.

used a french press most of the time.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Although I picked up a can of Don Francesco Kona in Acme which is great.

There is probably very little Kona in that "blend".

Originally Posted by VaSteve

You guys are nuts. All that work setting that stuff up while *needing* my coffee would kill me. I set the drip thing at my office to brew 10 min before I arrive. When I get there, nice hot Mr. Coffee.

I can make French press coffee in under 10 min.


Now before you guys call me a coffee snob I do use a rusty, leaky, drip coffee maker at work... any port in a storm.

[rusnak]

I want to go into Starbuck's just so I order an Ethiopian, and when they say "room for milk" I say "no, black".

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I want to go into Starbuck's just so I order an Ethiopian, and when they say "room for milk" I say "no, black".

No. You want to say, "I take it black.....like my men." If they don't get that, walk away.

[rusnak]

My sister's co-worker (a female) goes with her on their lunch break to Starbucks. The friend orders an iced tea...the Starbuck's clerk goes "black or passion" (apparently that is all they have left)...and the friend goes "I'll take some black passion any day". When my sister told me that story, I had to ask if the friend was single or taken, haha. Apparently the friend was not really joking as it turns out.... I'm not Black, so she and I never hooked up.

[vash]

the funnest tea to order at SB, is african red bush.

[lendaddy]

And it works and tastes great....blow me

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by vash

the funnest tea to order at SB, is african red bush.

I'm going to tell that one to my brother in law this weekend, and he will laugh his grande guletto off.

[Pazuzu]

Hamilton beach Brew Station



Kinda weird and cheap, but I got it for something like $20

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

No. You want to say, "I take it black.....like my men." If they don't get that, walk away.

Or say "When your've had black you can't go back."

[Seric]

Krups dripper on the weekdays, French Press on the weekends. Dark roast usually.

[MRM]

I filter boiling hot water through it, drink the liquid and throw away the grounds.