[jyl]

I don’t make coffee much anymore, preferring espresso, but on those occasions I usually use a French press. Pros: easy to make strong coffee and a decent volume of it. Cons: sediment, and the glass ones break.

My other favorite way of making coffee is a Bialetti. Pros: easy to make very strong coffee, durable. Cons: the common sizes only make a couple cups at a time (fine for personal use, but a pain if you have a group that wants coffee).

My wife likes an Aeropress and carries one when she travels. Pros: compact, light, clean flavor. Cons: need filters, one cup at a time, kind of fiddly.

At the office I can use an automatic drip machine for when I want to drink coffee all day. Since that means pee-ing every five minutes (feels like that anyway) I don’t do that as much as I used to. Pros: easy, makes lots of coffee, thermal carafe keeps it warm kinda. Cons: waste coffee and too many bathroom trips.

Instead, I have a Nespresso pod machine. Pros: espresso (kinda), convenient. Cons: waste aluminum, cost per shot, only passable shots.

I have a single group 110v Elektra in the queue for a restoration, eventually that might make it to my office. Then I’ll be all set.

When I was in Taiwan last year I had a coffee at local coffee bars, made with a Japanese syphon system. Some of the best coffee I’ve ever had.

I like coffee from medium and light roast beans, sometimes. Someday I’ll get an espresso machine suited to pulling shots from med/light roasts, or modify my Elektra to do so. The future office Elektra might get those mods.