With the new crazy job schedule, coffee has become my best friend. 1. I don't even know how to make coffee. I'll Probably buy the little machine. 2. What coffee taste good? 3. Creamers, I add till it taste like chocolate milk. 4. Don't walk around with a coffee pot in the morning, the thirst is real.
INB4 "drink it black or ur a woman" And those Keurig makers are just fine. I have one. As for this statement, "Don't walk around with a coffee pot in the morning, the thirst is real." - I have no idea what that means.
I have the Cusinart Grind & Brew coffee maker, its like 10 years old and I highly recommend buying something else. If you want good tasting coffee you can probably look on amazon for a coffee maker that is $40-$50 with good reviews and buy yourself a small grinder to grind fresh beans. Always use clean H20 as well. Either bottled water or get a Brita water filter/pitcher. This guy is my best friend whenever I have a food-related question: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/33kIj__tD90" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
If you do any kind of research you will find your questions very controversial in the coffee world. My wife purchased a Keurig which is convenient but the coffee is just okay (and it gets expensive). I got one of those baskets that allows you to brew your own coffee in a Keurig and have been enjoying that (easy, convenient, better coffee). What a LOT of people seem to recommend is that you: Buy a grinder Buy a French Press Get your coffee in whole beans Grind up some coffee, put it in the bottom of the French Press, add really hot water (but not boiling) and enjoy. This allows you to make one or two cups, it's easy and seems to do a good job of making flavorful coffee. I will probably go this route at some point and just use the Keurig for hot water (which, btw, it is awesome for). Learn to enjoy your coffee black so that you can actually enjoy the coffee and try a BUNCH of different kinds. Find what you like and repeat. Someone somewhere on the internet posted a thread where people would complete the sentence: "I like my coffee like I like my (blank)..." My favorite was: "I like my coffee like I like my girlfriends.... without my best friends dick in them! Backstabbing ass!"
I use a chemex and a clever coffee maker. The clever is pretty darn simple and it makes coffee better than any coffee maker on the planet. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8bjN3pDUU7Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The grinder-French Press route makes some damn good coffee. But if your putting that much creamer in, it may not need to be that good of coffee. I have the CBTL (coffee bean and tea leaf). The capsules are fairly cheap, and I love the way they taste. The machine is actually one that will make real espresso. Many machines don't have a high enough bar measurement. That may not matter to you. It's super easy, and they have a great variety of products that you can use.
You buy a French Press that makes more than just a couple of cups of coffee. French Press is tasty but does require a little more effort. 111Chase's 3 bullets are correct, but I would add that if you use a french press then you will also need a thermos to hold the coffee after it is brewed. Don't leave it in the press. I have a Cuisinart grinder that works fine and a Cuisinart coffee maker which we are very pleased with. It brews nice and hot and I would also recommend a thermal carafe it uses. Obviously, buy whole bean. You just have to experiment to find the kind you like. Stop dumping all that creamer in there. I prefer black but A little half and half is ok. At a certain point it just gets non-nonsensical to add as much creamer and sugar as some people do. DOn't over grind your beans. Do a coarse grind with a french press and a medium with a filter. When you brew your coffee, add a pinch of Kosher salt.
Big fan of my Keurig and the Duncan Donuts brew with one packet of sweet and low. Cannot function in the morning without it.
intrigued. will look into this. my breville coffee grinder/brewer is too loud, takes too long ("ain't nobody got time for that"), and uses too many beans. quality cup, but irritating.
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^ Haha. Nice. I use FOLGERS right now at home. I have been drinking the free coffee at work for about 15 years, and have always made the pot even if there was little still left. The coffee at the new place where I am makes me have heartburn... I don't know why. I cut down on my sugar recently, only using 3 packets from six that I was doing before. I use two shots of creamer. Since we moved to the new SwoLy home, we had been making coffee early in the morning. It was time for a change (mainly because the pot broke) from a 10-cup maker we have had since 2000. It was pretty simple, only one button, click-and-you're-done. I bought Mrs. SwoLy this here programmable coffee maker that comes with a side "single-serve" two-way brewer from Hamilton Beach at Target: http://www.target.com/p/hamilton-beach-black-2-way-brewer/-/A-13372264#prodSlot=medium_1_2 <object width="560" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W0q35oCcK2I?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W0q35oCcK2I?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> When she's not going to work, I just put my cup under the single-serve and am ready to go. The side is convertible for tumblers and smaller cups, so you can fit them in there without having the coffee splash. The dispenser above the pot has a button that is pressed to dispense when the pot is there, and it closes when you remove the pot, so there's no drip. We program it for waking up, and by the time we're done getting ready in the morning it's ready to serve.
Im glad im not addicted to coffee like most of yall. I pro have less than 5 cups through out the whole yr and that is only because at work we got a machine where it pours out mocha and capp. Im 30 yrs old and have enough energy to go through the day with out needing caffeine in my system, i rarely drink sodas also.
Well it takes a little bit of time since you have to boil the water and you also have to let the grounds bloom. It's similar to french press coffee except you don't get the silt because of the filter and its much easier to clean up. I like it because it you get double the caffeine from letting the coffee soak.
